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Below is a grid suitable for use in a 7-team league. You would run 7 games each
week, on League Night.
To read the chart, run across a row for each team, or down a column for each game. So for example Team 1 plays on Red in game A, Yellow in game E, and Green in game G; and Game A consists of team 1 on Red, team 2 on Green, and team 4 on Yellow. (If your site has a blue team, substitute colours appropriately.) |
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7 teams in the tournament. 3 teams play in each game. 3 games are played by each team. 7 games are played in the whole tournament. Each team plays every other team exactly once. Each team plays on every colour exactly once. |
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| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | ||
| Team | 1 | R | Y | G | ||||
| 2 | G | R | Y | |||||
| 3 | G | R | Y | |||||
| 4 | Y | G | R | |||||
| 5 | Y | G | R | |||||
| 6 | Y | G | R | |||||
| 7 | Y | G | R | |||||
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To choose which is Team 1, which is Team 2, and so on, you can use whatever means
of draw you like. One good method is a random draw during the pre-season captains' meeting, where
the captains pick cards numbered 1 thru 7 from your hand.
After each week, you need to shuffle the team names for next week's games. Again,
you can use whatever mechanism you like: you can pick randomly again, or you can
renumber the teams according to a rule. Note that just bumping every team's number
up by one is not a good rule: the same three teams would wind up playing
each other together each week. The following would be a good rule:
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