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A tournament problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

W. D. Wallis
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, N.S.W. 2308
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Abstract

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It is shown that, for any round-robin tournament, one can find a pairing of the teams and allocate home and away matches so that only one member of each pair plays at home in each round.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1983

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