For a 9-team league, you can simply run 12 games every night, using the 9-team tournament grid; perhaps using slightly shorter games. But you might want to run 9 games every night, in which case a suitable grid is shown below. It takes 4 weeks to play. |
12 games are played by each team. 36 games are played in the whole tournament. Each team plays every other team 3 times. |
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A1 | B1 | C1 | D1 | E1 | F1 | G1 | H1 | J1 | A2 | B2 | C2 | D2 | E2 | F2 | G2 | H2 | J2 | A3 | B3 | C3 | D3 | E3 | F3 | G3 | H3 | J3 | A4 | B4 | C4 | D4 | E4 | F4 | G4 | H4 | J4 | |||||
Team | 1 | R | G | Y | R | Y | G | R | G | Y | G | Y | G | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | G | Y | R | Y | G | R | R | G | Y | Y | G | R | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Y | R | G | R | Y | G | R | G | Y | R | R | Y | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Y | R | G | Y | G | R | R | G | Y | G | Y | G | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | R | G | Y | G | R | Y | Y | R | G | Y | G | R | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | G | Y | R | Y | G | R | Y | R | G | R | R | Y | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Y | R | G | G | R | Y | G | Y | R | G | Y | G | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Y | R | G | Y | G | R | G | Y | R | Y | G | R | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | R | G | Y | G | R | Y | G | Y | R | R | R | Y |
The following would be a good shuffle rule: 1 2, 2 4, 3 6, 4 8, 5 1, 6 3, 7 5, 8 7, 9 9. |
9 team tournament grid | ||
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