Iranian Professional Football League’s Scheduling

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Madadi, Mahdi |

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 44493 (01)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Industrial Engineering
Advisor(s): Kianfar, Ferydoon
Abstract:
Finding a proper and fair schedule for sport competitions has been an important issue, especially these days which professional sports has became a large scale business and profitability of sport competitions depends on the quality of the schedule.
Hence in the last three decades sport scheduling has been considered by computer science and operation research scientists.
Professional soccer league consists of many teams which compete in one round or double round robin tournament every year. In round robin tournaments each team has two matches, one at their own place and the other one at the competitors place. The main issues of the sport scheduling are the round and the host of matches. Also every league has its own constraints that will affect the solution.
Iranian professional soccer league has special objectives and constraints. In this thesis, the constraints of this league have been explored and the schedule of competition is presented regarding the league organization and fans demands. This scheduling will determine round of every match and the host of the match. For modeling, integer programming have been used
Keywords:
Scheduling ; Integer Programming ; Sports Scheduling ; Traveling Tournoment Problem ; Professional Football League ; Football

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