Actually there are 9 + 8 + 7 + 6 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 45 possible combinations.
Steven Durette Professional Applications Developer AT&T Network Operations - Construction and Engineering [email protected] (810) 984-6684 [work] (810) 334-7778 [personal cell] 2020 Bancroft St Room 22 Port Huron, MI 48060 -----Original Message----- From: Will Swain [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 11:16 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: setting up team games 9 games surely, since a team cannot play itself. On 4 February 2014 16:05, Robert Harrison <[email protected]>wrote: > > I assume you're using a data base and some sort of random generator > program to match up the teams. If this is the case, just keep a history > table of who has played who, then when you run the random play generator, > check the history and do not allow repeats. > > If you're going to get 10 teams to play each other, it's going to take > more than 10 games to get them to play each other... I think that would > take 90 games... unless not everyone is playing everyone. > > Robert Harrison > Director of Interactive Services > > Austin & Williams > Advertising I Branding I Digital I Direct > 125 Kennedy Drive, Suite 100 I Hauppauge, NY 11788 > T 631.231.6600 X 119 F 631.434.7022 > http://www.austin-williams.com > > Blog: http://www.austin-williams.com/blog > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/austin_williams > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chad Gray [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 11:00 AM > To: cf-talk > Subject: setting up team games > > > I am working on a website to keep track of baseball teams. once section > will be to take like 10 teams and set them up to play each other over 10 > games. > > I would like to figure out a way to programmatically to take the 10 teams > and match them up with the other teams over the 10 games so they only play > each other once over the course of the 10 games. > > Make sense? I am sure it is something simple, but I can't get my head > wrapped around it. > > Thanks! > Chad > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:357586 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
