How can I set up a twelve man golf league in rotating teams of three players to let everyone play together?

Question

The teams rotate members each week. We would like to have everyone play with each other player the same number of times during the course of the summer. Playing weekly It takes 11 weeks for everyone to play together twice but some players play three times. This may be impossible without playing 132 weeks. But how can we get close?

Answer 1

When you say that you rotate golfers, how exactly are you rotating them? Do only two from a team play at a time, or does everyone play and you rotate all of the golfers regardless of the team?

If you're rotating all golfers each week regardless of their team, the golf league website IMAgolfer.com can automatically calculate this for you in seconds. It optimizes who has played with whom before repeating. It's not mathematically possible in your case to have everyone just play eachother once, for example, before someone plays someone else twice, but it all evens out as efficiently as possible. You won't have any two people playing eachother four times unless everyone else has played eachother at least three times, or something like that. It gets pretty confusing, but the site figures it out for you. You can then view the entire schedule and it shows each golfer's name, their team name, and their tee time for the entire season.

They have a free trial period so you can setup your league and let it create your schedule. When assigning golfers to the schedule, be sure to choose to group "by golfer" instead of by team. "By Team" works great but is optimized for teams with an even number of golfers.

It's a subscription site (our league is using it this year), but you can sign up long enough to create your schedule during the trial period. I'd give it a try though. Our league doesn't start for 6 more weeks but half our league is already sending emails from the site to eachother and posting trash talk on the message board. We've been signed up for a month now, and the "countdown" for the end of the Trial Period is still 2 months away. I guess it's based on the start date of the first round so you can enter scores and see what it does during the season. In any case, even if your league isn't interested in using the site, you'll at least get your free schedule from it.

Just be sure to select the start date as the first date of your league so it doesn't time out right away.

- Rich

Answer 2

Instead of trying to schedule 4 groups of 3 players each, I recommend you create and 3 groups with 4 players in each group which is a normal foursome situation. You would need 3 T-times. What do next is create a schedule using the "rotating partners" format, where each week you play all players are scheduled with a different partner in each round robin. It would take 11 weeks (everyone plays 11 times) to complete a single full round robin of partner distribution, 22 weeks to complete 2 round robins.
You may want to check out ww.leagueschedulingservices.com web site that, I think, has an example of this type of schedule.
- Bob

Answer 3

set twelve man golf league rotating teams players play

Answer 4

Can you change the format?

12 players total

2 players on each team.
6 teams

Each week you can send out 3 foursomes of 2 teams

Week 1
Foursome 1 = Team A (A1, A2) plays Team B (B1, B2)
Foursome 2 = Team C (C1, C2) plays Team D (D1, D2)
Foursome 3 = Team E (E1, E2) plays Team F (F1, F2)

Rotate teams through the first 5 weeks.

After the 5th week, players of teams with the best record pick their next playing partner. ***You can never pick a player you have already partnered with. ***

Lowest team score on the 5th week break all ties between teams that finish with the same record and best individual scores break ties within teams.

You can play three sets of 5 matches in 15 weeks

Good luck.

Answer 5

try http://www.golfsoftware.com/ .. Its a great way to run a golf league in manny formats!

Good luck

Answer 6

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