Creative Solutions

Formalizing a Ladder Tournament

Large Tournaments

• What do you do with 100 entries for a two-on- two basketball tournament?– 12 pools of 6 teams.– 4 pools of 7 teams.– Top two in a SE play-off.

Number of Games

• 12 pools of 6 =

• 4 pools of 7 =

• Playoffs =

• 24 courts, number of rounds?

Semi Round Robin

• Major League Baseball question– With seven teams and two divisions how to

get to play offs with same number of games?

• Try create a solution

A solution

Seeding implications

What to do with different numbers?

• Entries Division of 3 Div SRR

• Seven entries

• Eight entries

• Nine entries

• Ten entries

• Eleven entries

• Twelve entries