Article Title
Towards a Novel Tournament Scheduling Algorithm and Statistical Measure of Team Equity in Large Scale Forensic Tournaments
Document Type
Tournament Assessments
Abstract
Business items raised at recent national forensics tournaments regarding scheduling seem to be based around issues of an increased number of competitors and a trend for some schools to have a disproportionate amount of competitors in a single event. This paper examines the stated goals in scheduling a tournament as a device that measures the ability of competitors. Stemming from these goals, this paper proposes a novel random scheduling algorithm capable of scheduling a large number of competitors in an individual event. After implementing this algorithm, its performance is measured in relation to its ability to schedule a tournament comparable with given national level competitions. This paper further suggests that there may be a need to establish a method for measuring the fairness of a schedule. This paper concludes with the recommendation that the means of scheduling the most important tournaments be reexamined and that tournaments describe the means by which they will be scheduled.
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Recommended Citation
Kokoska, Mark
(2010)
"Towards a Novel Tournament Scheduling Algorithm and Statistical Measure of Team Equity in Large Scale Forensic Tournaments,"
Proceedings of the National Developmental Conference on Individual Events: Vol. 5:
Iss.
1, Article 9.
Available at:
https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/ndcieproceedings/vol5/iss1/9