Sports Timetabling

Sports timetabling consists of, but is not limited to:

Tournament scheduling
Referee assignment

Below problem datasets are available for several sports timetabling problems together with references to literature dealing with sports timetabling problems. If you have published in this timetabling area or possess datasets for some sports timetabling problems, feel free to add them below or provide a link to the corresponding website.

These datasets may be used for research and are considered anonymized.

Sports Timetabling Datasets

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Short Description	Problem Type	Link
RobinX: an XML-driven classification for round-robin sports timetabling	Sports timetabling	Visit
Traveling Umpire Problem	Referee Timetabling	Visit
Traveling Umpire Problem	Referee Timetabling	Visit
Traveling Tournament Problem	Tournament Timetabling	Visit

Sports Timetabling Papers

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Multi-neighborhood simulated annealing for the sports timetabling competition ITC2021, Rosati, Roberto Maria, Petris Matteo, Di Gaspero Luca, and Schaerf Andrea , Journal of Scheduling, Volume 25, p.301–319, (2022)
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Pseudo-Boolean optimisation for RobinX sports timetabling, Lester, Martin Mariusz , Journal of Scheduling, Volume 25, p.287–299, (2022)
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A fix-and-optimize heuristic for the ITC2021 sports timetabling problem, Fonseca, George H. G., and Toffolo Túlio A. M. , Journal of Scheduling, Volume 25, p.273–286, (2022)
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Optimizing rest times and differences in games played: an iterative two-phase approach, Van Bulck, David, and Goossens Dries , Journal of Scheduling, Volume 25, p.261–271, (2022)
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The sport teams grouping problem, Toffolo, Túlio A. M., Christiaens Jan, Spieksma Frits C. R., and Berghe Greet Vanden , Annals of Operations Research, Volume 275, p.223–243, (2019)
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