AI Sports Scheduling
Optimising Fairness and Practicality in Sport
"The success of a sports competition heavily depends on its timetable... Sports timetables... need to be fair and organisationally practical."
David Van Bulck & Dries Goossens (2020)
Fairness
Balanced Match Allocation
Speed
Schedules in Seconds
Flexible
Handles Unique Constraints
The Challenge: A Complex Logistical Puzzle
Sports scheduling is a difficult task with many competing objectives and constraints. The challenge is to accommodate logistical requirements, such as team and venue availability, while also ensuring fairness in how matches are allocated and timed. Many existing software solutions are rigid, working only for specific tournament structures or a set number of teams.
This leaves a gap for a more generalised, flexible solution that can handle the unique and often conflicting requests of a modern sports league, from the professional tier down to the grassroots level.
Our Approach: Advanced Computational Techniques
Our solution combines our extensive experience in sports administration with a novel mixture of advanced computational techniques. This powerful and flexible approach allows our application to tackle the complex details of any scheduling problem and generate optimised schedules in seconds.
Core Technologies
Evolutionary Algorithms
Constraint Programming
Integer Programming
Our application uses a novel mixture of these advanced computational techniques to find the optimal schedule.
The Impact: Efficiency from Grassroots to Professional
Our solution provides a fast, easy to use application that allows sports administrators to focus more on the game and less on logistics. At the professional level, it ensures the integrity and fairness of the draw. At the grassroots level, it accommodates the competing demands of parents and carers, ensuring all children have the opportunity to participate.
The powerful scheduling algorithms we have developed are also readily transportable to other problems and industries that require a rigorous and flexible scheduling solution, such as logistics, transport, and event management.
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