John Yeung gallium.arsen...@gmail.com writes:
On May 5, 11:37 pm, Ross ross.j...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 5, 10:33 am, MRAB goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote:
Here's my approach (incomplete):
FYI... I was testing your code further and discovered a strange
outcome... when there are 16
John Yeung wrote:
On May 7, 12:30 am, Ross ross.j...@gmail.com wrote:
If I were to set up a dictionary that counted players used in the bye
list and only allowed players to be added to the bye list if they were
within 2 of the least used player, would this be a good approach for
managing bye
On May 7, 1:11 am, John Yeung gallium.arsen...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 7, 12:30 am, Ross ross.j...@gmail.com wrote:
If I were to set up a dictionary that counted players used in the bye
list and only allowed players to be added to the bye list if they were
within 2 of the least used
On May 7, 8:32 pm, Ross ross.j...@gmail.com wrote:
I've managed to solve the problem. If you go in
order, the discrepancy between the player with the
least amount of byes and the greatest amount of byes
is only 1.
I don't mean to rain on your parade, but that's not the case for all
values.
John Yeung wrote:
On May 5, 11:37 pm, Ross ross.j...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 5, 10:33 am, MRAB goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote:
Here's my approach (incomplete):
FYI... I was testing your code further and discovered a strange
outcome... when there are 16 people for 7 courts, every 7th
round
On May 5, 10:49 am, Ross ross.j...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm interested to see what you did. From your description,
it sounds like I've tried what you've done, but when I
implemented my version, it took minutes to evaluate for
bigger numbers. If that isn't the case with yours, I'd be
interested in
On May 6, 3:29 am, MRAB goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote:
I have the feeling that if the number of rounds is restricted then the
difference between the minimum and maximum number of byes could be 2
because of the requirement that players shouldn't play each other more
than once, meaning that
On May 6, 3:14 pm, John Yeung gallium.arsen...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 6, 3:29 am, MRAB goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote:
I have the feeling that if the number of rounds is restricted then the
difference between the minimum and maximum number of byes could be 2
because of the requirement
On May 6, 3:14 pm, John Yeung gallium.arsen...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 6, 3:29 am, MRAB goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote:
I have the feeling that if the number of rounds is restricted then the
difference between the minimum and maximum number of byes could be 2
because of the requirement
On May 6, 3:14 pm, John Yeung gallium.arsen...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 6, 3:29 am, MRAB goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote:
I have the feeling that if the number of rounds is restricted then the
difference between the minimum and maximum number of byes could be 2
because of the requirement
On May 7, 12:30 am, Ross ross.j...@gmail.com wrote:
If I were to set up a dictionary that counted players used in the bye
list and only allowed players to be added to the bye list if they were
within 2 of the least used player, would this be a good approach for
managing bye selection or would
On May 5, 1:12 am, John Yeung gallium.arsen...@gmail.com wrote:
[...] the problem may require bigger guns (either much better
math or much more sophisticated programming).
Yes, I'm responding to myself.
Well, I went ahead with the approach I mentioned earlier, generating
all possible matches
On May 5, 12:32 am, John Yeung gallium.arsen...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 5, 1:12 am, John Yeung gallium.arsen...@gmail.com wrote:
[...] the problem may require bigger guns (either much better
math or much more sophisticated programming).
Yes, I'm responding to myself.
Well, I went ahead
Ross wrote:
On May 5, 12:32 am, John Yeung gallium.arsen...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 5, 1:12 am, John Yeung gallium.arsen...@gmail.com wrote:
[...] the problem may require bigger guns (either much better
math or much more sophisticated programming).
Yes, I'm responding to myself.
Well, I
On May 5, 1:33 pm, MRAB goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote:
Ross wrote:
On May 5, 12:32 am, John Yeung gallium.arsen...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 5, 1:12 am, John Yeung gallium.arsen...@gmail.com wrote:
[...] the problem may require bigger guns (either much better
math or much more
On May 5, 10:33 am, MRAB goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote:
Ross wrote:
On May 5, 12:32 am, John Yeung gallium.arsen...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 5, 1:12 am, John Yeung gallium.arsen...@gmail.com wrote:
[...] the problem may require bigger guns (either much better
math or much more
On May 5, 11:37 pm, Ross ross.j...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 5, 10:33 am, MRAB goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote:
Here's my approach (incomplete):
FYI... I was testing your code further and discovered a strange
outcome... when there are 16 people for 7 courts, every 7th
round your code
On May 3, 10:16 pm, John Yeung gallium.arsen...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 3, 11:29 pm, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote:
Probably not the cause of the problem, but where
did the magic numbers 1.072 and 1.08 come from?
It is perhaps not the most direct cause of the problem, in the sense
On May 4, 7:01 am, Ross ross.j...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 3, 10:16 pm, John Yeung gallium.arsen...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 3, 11:29 pm, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote:
Probably not the cause of the problem, but where
did the magic numbers 1.072 and 1.08 come from?
It is
On May 3, 8:29 pm, John Machin sjmac...@lexicon.net wrote:
On May 4, 12:36 pm, Ross ross.j...@gmail.com wrote:
For the past couple weeks, I've been working on an algorithm to
schedule tennis leagues given court constraints and league
considerations (i.e. whether it's a singles or a
In article 8d4ec1df-dddb-469a-99a1-695152db7...@n4g2000vba.googlegroups.com,
Ross ross.j...@gmail.com wrote:
def test_round_robin(players, rounds, courts, doubles = False):
players = range(players)
for week in round_robin(players,rounds,courts):
if doubles == True:
On May 4, 12:15 pm, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
In article 8d4ec1df-dddb-469a-99a1-695152db7...@n4g2000vba.googlegroups.com,
Ross ross.j...@gmail.com wrote:
def test_round_robin(players, rounds, courts, doubles = False):
players = range(players)
for week in
On May 4, 10:01 am, Ross ross.j...@gmail.com wrote:
The magic numbers that everyone is wondering about are
indeed used for spreading out the bye selection and I got
them by simply calculating a line of best fit when plotting
several courts: byes ratios.
But that doesn't really help you. When
On May 4, 7:59 pm, John Yeung gallium.arsen...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 4, 10:01 am, Ross ross.j...@gmail.com wrote:
The magic numbers that everyone is wondering about are
indeed used for spreading out the bye selection and I got
them by simply calculating a line of best fit when plotting
On May 4, 8:56 pm, Ross ross.j...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyways, you're right that seq[0] is always evaluated.
That's why my algorithm works fine when there are odd
numbers of players in a league.
It doesn't work fine for all odd numbers of players. For example, 15
players on 3 courts should
On May 4, 7:33 pm, John Yeung gallium.arsen...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 4, 8:56 pm, Ross ross.j...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyways, you're right that seq[0] is always evaluated.
That's why my algorithm works fine when there are odd
numbers of players in a league.
It doesn't work fine for all odd
On May 4, 11:01 pm, Ross ross.j...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyways, I'm new to
programming and this has been a good learning experience.
I'm glad that you've been trying, and seem to be sticking it out
despite sometimes getting negative feedback here.
Next time around, I'll be sure to thoroughly
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Ross ross.j...@gmail.com wrote:
For the past couple weeks, I've been working on an algorithm to
schedule tennis leagues given court constraints and league
considerations (i.e. whether it's a singles or a doubles league). Here
were my requirements when I was
On May 4, 12:36 pm, Ross ross.j...@gmail.com wrote:
For the past couple weeks, I've been working on an algorithm to
schedule tennis leagues given court constraints and league
considerations (i.e. whether it's a singles or a doubles league). Here
were my requirements when I was designing this
On May 3, 10:36 pm, Ross ross.j...@gmail.com wrote:
def round_robin(players, rounds):
[snip]
def test_round_robin(players, rounds, courts, doubles = False):
players = range(players)
for week in round_robin(players,rounds,courts):
[snip]
First things first: I take it the call to
On May 3, 11:29 pm, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote:
Probably not the cause of the problem, but where
did the magic numbers 1.072 and 1.08 come from?
It is perhaps not the most direct cause of the problem, in the sense
that the magic numbers could take various values and the problem would
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