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3124. Scheduling Bolivia’s First Division football season by integer programming

Invited abstract in session TA-16: Sports scheduling and optimization, stream OR in Sports.

Tuesday, 8:30-10:00
Room: 19 (building: 116)

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Gonzalo Zamorano
University of Chile
2. Guillermo Durán
Calculus Institute, University of Buenos Aires
3. Mario Guajardo
Business and Management Science, NHH Norwegian School of Economics
4. Denis Saure
Industrial Engineering, University of Chile

Abstract

In this talk we describe our work in scheduling the main professional football league of Bolivia. Following existing work in sports scheduling, we develop an integer programming approach for the season schedule in its two tournaments, the first one organized by groups and the second one, a double round robin scheme. In addition to the traditional problem of scheduling games to rounds, we also schedule the games to specific dates and time slots within each round. Also, besides usual considerations such as league format, game broadcasting, and international tournament calendars, an important aspect of this league is the geographical location of the teams, which are spread around regions with extreme differences in altitude. Our work has been implemented in practice to schedule the 2024 season of the league.
This is the fourth soccer league in South America (Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia) programmed by the group of authors of this work.

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