Ice Hockey Intramural Schedule
I've never done this before...
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Not to bad for being your first time:) Nice job!
This is well presented, but contains some mistakes I noted on some others' project like this, so you're in good company. The first round of the tournament is set-up wrong. The 1st seed shouldn't have a harder game (in theory) than the 2nd seed for their first game. Also, the set-up of the round games doesn't follow the format I outlined in our content notes for intramurals. In other words, there isn't a pattern to the set-up. While it appears to be correct, I'm not sure what procedure you used to set this up. The procedure I outlined is certainly the quickest and most full-proof that I know of.
I was confused by the wording of your tournament. I assumed that Double Elimination was different from Double Round Robin. I followed a format that I was much more familiar with (ice hockey tournament format). The playoffs portion was tricky one as I'm much more accustomed to consolation games being included within any given ice hockey tournament. I'm not sure that its normal procedure for other sports tournament. For example, I couldn't figure out how ties for playoffs would be determined. I'm going to reformat my tournament schedule to see if I can make better sense of it.
Using a different format (e.g. single vs double, elimination vs round robin, consolation) is fine, but what I was trying to clarify is the correct technique for the set-up of the elimination bracket and also the efficient technique used for round robin set-up (in my content notes). The fact that ties in hockey often happen is irrelevant to the correct tournament set-up. Also a consolation is just an add on to an elimination tournament, so it still should be set up correctly as an elimination tournament.
Usually in hockey a point system is set-up where wins count as a given amount of points (e.g. 3) and ties count for a lesser value (like 1). Instead of win/loss the record can be recorded in points.
When I'm done with my proposal I'm going to revise my schedule to see if I'm comprehending correctly what your stating. I'm really fuzzy with this project because the textbook kind of breezed through the different types of tournaments.
With regards to hockey, many of the tournaments are using the difference of points scored in a game to determine tie breakers. For example, in a recent tournament my son's team was in a three way tie with two other teams. So they used the points from each game to determine who moved on to the playoffs. Tier (AA & AAA) hockey teams are also following the same format for their regular season games. We thought we were out of the playoffs as our son's team lost all three games, but because another team lost by more points we are still in pool.
That is one of the few points of contention I have with the textbook, the lack of good explanation for tournament design. That is one reason I have the extra notes online for this.
Interesting about the hockey organizers decision on that. Using points from games is problematic because it allows for skewed results and running up the score. In other words, if a team is playing a weak team, they could gain a lot of points by running up the score, but may otherwise lose to better teams (which seems to be what you are noting). I don't recommend that strategy at all. Use the strategies that are more similar to that of World Cup Soccer and regular season NHL.