January 7, 2012 at 8:19 am
I am trying to create a dynamic round robin scoring sheet with SQL stored procedure & VB and suggestion on how to do this?
Some weekend we may have 6 players and other weekend we may have 12 players.
If you have a script may help to do this will be greatful.
January 7, 2012 at 12:43 pm
If I understand correctly, you simply want it where all teams play all the other teams? Here's one way to do that...
--===== Declare and set the number of players present.
-- This could be a parameter in a stored procedure or function.
DECLARE @NumberOfPlayers INT;
SELECT @NumberOfPlayers = 7; --Obviously, there will be a "BYE" for the 8th position.
--===== If the number of players is an odd number, add 1 to the number of players
SELECT @NumberOfPlayers = @NumberOfPlayers + (@NumberOfPlayers %2);
--===== Create the "Round Robin" schedule using a Triangular Join (a limited form of CROSS JOIN).
-- A better way to do this would be to use a Tally Table instead of master.dbo.spt_values.
-- Please see the following article for that.
-- http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/62867/
WITH
cteTally AS
(
SELECT PlayerNumber = Number
FROM master.dbo.spt_values
WHERE Type = 'P'
AND Number BETWEEN 1 AND @NumberOfPlayers
)
SELECT t1.PlayerNumber, t2.PlayerNumber
FROM cteTally t1
INNER JOIN cteTally t2
ON t1.PlayerNumber < t2.PlayerNumber
;
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
January 7, 2012 at 3:33 pm
Actually, looking back at it, that does you no good because it's not actually a schedule. :blush: It doesn't contain "rounds" nor "fields of play". I'm working on something better. I'm not sure how long it will take but I have the math worked out and I'm working on the code.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
January 7, 2012 at 5:59 pm
Well, I thought I had the math worked out. :blush: My apologies. Creating the schedule is a bit tougher than I thought (correctly rotating the field of play is the hard part). I don't have a way to do that yet.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
January 9, 2012 at 9:05 am
Creating a round robin scoring grid is tougher than I thought...
January 9, 2012 at 10:06 pm
I can create a Round Robin that shows the weekly schedule or just a schedule for a day in SQL and in a set based fashion. I just haven't found a way to "jostle" things in a set based fashion so that thing work out like they might on a bowling league schedule which moves the "fixed point" across lanes each week (which also has some serious positional flaws for lower numbers of teams).
Are you interested in just being able to produce the schedule without proverbial "lane assignments"?
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
January 9, 2012 at 10:40 pm
I am always willing to learn new method or idea. I think I am come to realization that how difficult to assign lanes.
Is it possible to create a grid something like to keep track of scoring?
x12345
1x----
2-x---
3--x--
4---x-
5----x
count player & tmp table idea...
January 11, 2012 at 11:02 am
hi there,
i know about round robin because of chess tournaments.
it is like everybody against everybody, but in chess is double turn because once you play as white and one more time as black with every single opponent.
i know round robin algorithms exist.
there are also round robin schheduling algorithms.
i think you should look at one already made, but maybe in another programming language.
please, look at these web searches:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=pfwl&cp=25&gs_id=au&xhr=t&q=round+robin+tournament+algorithm&pq=round+robin+algorithm+sql&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&pbx=1&oq=round+robin+tournament+al&aq=0&aqi=g1g-v2g-b1&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=5895f996020e53d9&biw=1280&bih=899
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=round+robin+scheduling+tournament+algorithm&pbx=1&oq=round+robin+scheduling+tournament+algorithm&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=13589l15669l8l16567l11l10l0l0l0l9l1009l4872l2-1.0.4.3.0.1l9l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=5895f996020e53d9&biw=1280&bih=899
and maybe, if you are lucky enough, here might be lying your answer:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=pfwl&cp=28&gs_id=fy&xhr=t&q=round+robin+algorithm+in+sql&pq=round+robin+scheduling+tournament+algorithm&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&pbx=1&oq=round+robin+algorithm+in+sql&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=5895f996020e53d9&biw=1280&bih=899
the actual searches are:
round robin tournament algorithm
round robin scheduling algorithm
these two are actually google saved searches
but this one is mine
round robin algorithm sql
good luck,
tonci korsano.
January 17, 2012 at 9:14 pm
Dang it! I'm sorry. I lost track of this thread. :blush:
I said I had worked out the math for a Round Robin schedule but not the "Field of Play" rotations like you might need for a bowling league. Then I lost track of this thread.
If you'll forgive me for being a week late, I converted the math that I had worked out to a T-SQL algorithm for solving Round Robin scheduling for virtually any number of teams you may have. It does use the magic of a Tally Table and you can find out how it works to replace certain types of loops at the following URL:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/62867/
This particular code uses a "zero based" Tally Table. You can easily build such a thing using the following code...
--===== Do this in a nice safe place that everyone has
USE TempDB;
IF OBJECT_ID('TempDB..Tally','U') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE Tally;
GO
--===================================================================
-- Create a Tally table from 0 to 11000
--===================================================================
--===== Create and populate the Tally table on the fly.
SELECT TOP 11001
IDENTITY(INT,0,1) AS N
INTO dbo.Tally
FROM Master.sys.ALL_Columns ac1
CROSS JOIN Master.sys.ALL_Columns ac2
;
--===== Add a CLUSTERED Primary Key to maximize performance
ALTER TABLE dbo.Tally
ADD CONSTRAINT PK_Tally_N
PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED (N) WITH FILLFACTOR = 100
;
--===== Allow the general public to use it
GRANT SELECT ON dbo.Tally TO PUBLIC
;
GO
Here's the code to create the "Round Robin" schedules using T-SQL. If you really want it to "go horizontal", let me know and I'll write the necessary dynamic SQL to do so.
/**********************************************************************************************************************
Purpose:
Given virtually any number of teams > 0, create a "Round Robin" schedule.
Notes:
1. This code does NOT cycle the last team through "Match" positions (which could be lane pairs for a bowling league).
Separate code would be need for that.
2. This code could be converted to an function or a stored procedure.
Revision History:
Rev 00 - 17 Jan 2012 - Jeff Moden
**********************************************************************************************************************/
--===== Do this in a nice safe place that everyone has
USE TempDB;
--===== Declare and set the number of players present.
-- This could be a parameter in a stored procedure or function.
DECLARE @Teams INT;
SELECT @Teams = 6; --<<< This could be a parameter in a function or a proc
--===== Conditionally drop the working table
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#Team','U') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE #Team
;
--===== If the number of players is an odd number, add 1 to the number of players
SELECT @Teams = @Teams + (@Teams % 2)
;
--===== Create the team/reference table table with a preset "Reference" to act as a "ring counter"
SELECT Team = t.N,
Reference = CASE --This is a zero based number
WHEN t.N = @Teams THEN @Teams - 1 --Last position is always last count
WHEN t.N % 2 = 1 THEN t.N/2 --Count odd forwards
WHEN t.N % 2 = 0 THEN (@Teams-t.N)/2+(@Teams/2)-1 --Count all but last even backwards
END,
Match = (t.N - 1) / 2 + 1
INTO #Team
FROM dbo.Tally t
WHERE t.N >= 1 AND t.N <= @Teams
;
--===== Produce the "Round Robin" schedule
WITH
cteBuildRounds AS
( --=== This builds the round information
SELECT [Round] = t.N + 1,
Reference = CASE
WHEN robin.Reference < (@Teams - 1) THEN (robin.Reference + t.N) % (@Teams - 1)
ELSE robin.Reference
END,
Match = robin.Match,
Side = (robin.Team - 1) % 2
FROM #Team robin
CROSS JOIN dbo.Tally t
WHERE t.N BETWEEN 0 AND (@Teams - 2)
) --=== This simply summarizes by match
SELECT br.[Round],
br.Match,
Teams = MAX(CASE WHEN br.Side = 0 THEN CAST(team.Team AS VARCHAR(10)) ELSE '' END) + ' - '
+ MAX(CASE WHEN br.Side = 1 THEN CAST(team.Team AS VARCHAR(10)) ELSE '' END)
FROM cteBuildRounds br
INNER JOIN #Team team
ON team.Reference = br.Reference
GROUP BY br.[Round], br.Match
ORDER BY br.[Round], br.Match
;
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
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