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Scheduling the Italian National Volleyball Tournament

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  • Guido Cocchi

    (DINFO, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50139 Florence FI, Italy)

  • Alessandro Galligari

    (DINFO, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50139 Florence FI, Italy)

  • Federica Picca Nicolino

    (DINFO, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50139 Florence FI, Italy)

  • Veronica Piccialli

    (DICII, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, 00173 Rome RM, Italy)

  • Fabio Schoen

    (DINFO, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50139 Florence FI, Italy)

  • Marco Sciandrone

    (DINFO, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50139 Florence FI, Italy)

Abstract

In this paper, we present our approach to sports scheduling, a process that led the Italian Volleyball League to adopt our calendar for the 2016–2017 and subsequent seasons. Sports scheduling is a hard combinatorial optimization problem whose solution requires modeling many different aspects of sports, some of which are unique to each sport or nation. The capability of producing a high-quality schedule is important for both balancing undesirable matches among teams and ensuring adequate coverage by television and other media. Through strong interaction with the Italian Volleyball League, we modeled and solved the problem to optimality using standard mathematical programming solvers. We also tested our solution using previous seasons’ tournaments to prove the capability of our model.

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  • Guido Cocchi & Alessandro Galligari & Federica Picca Nicolino & Veronica Piccialli & Fabio Schoen & Marco Sciandrone, 2018. "Scheduling the Italian National Volleyball Tournament," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 48(3), pages 271-284, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:48:y:2018:i:3:p:271-284
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.2017.0932
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