Scheduling the Turkish Super Football League

Abstract

Sports entertainment was usually casual in the past, however, today’s sport has to be organized, marketed, and administered as a business because of economic size. Teams are making big investments to transfer new players. Broadcast rights of some competitions are being sold for hundreds of millions of dollars. The schedule is important for the organization's safety, game attendance, public interest, broadcasters, and advertisers and fairness. However, creating a fair and appropriate schedule is not easy because of the different needs of the stakeholders and the needs often conflict with each other. When the number of teams in the tournament increases, it may not be possible to reach the optimal solution with traditional methods. In this thesis, we have found a number of pattern elimination methods that we call “ladder patterns”. Moreover, with the help of ladder patterns, we developed a 5-Step approach that can able to solve a very complicated problem easily and quickly. At the result, a better schedule created for the Turkish Super Football League