Round-robin tournament schedule

Round-robin tournament schedule is a draft programming task. It is not yet considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that should be found in its talk page.

A round-robin tournament is also known as an all-play-all-tournament; each participant plays every other participant once.

For N participants the number of rounds is N-1 if N is an even number. When there are an odd number of participants then each round one contestor has no opponent (AKA as a "bye"). The number of rounds is N in that case.

Task

Write a program that prints out a tournament schedule for 12 participants (represented by numbers 1 to 12).

See also

• Wikipedia - Round-robin tournament

Ruby

<lang ruby>def round_robin( n )

 rotating_players = (2..n).map(&:to_s) #player 1 to be added later
 rotating_players << "bye" if n.odd? 
 Array.new(rotating_players.size) do |r|
   all = ["1"] + rotating_players.rotate(-r)
   [all[0, all.size/2], all[all.size/2..].reverse]
 end

end

round_robin(12).each.with_index(1) do |round, i|

 puts "Round #{i}"
 round.each do |players|
   puts players.map{|player| player.ljust(4)}.join
 end
 puts

end </lang>

Output:

Round 1
1   2   3   4   5   6   
12  11  10  9   8   7   

Round 2
1   12  2   3   4   5   
11  10  9   8   7   6   

Round 3
1   11  12  2   3   4   
10  9   8   7   6   5   

Round 4
1   10  11  12  2   3   
9   8   7   6   5   4   

Round 5
1   9   10  11  12  2   
8   7   6   5   4   3   

Round 6
1   8   9   10  11  12  
7   6   5   4   3   2   

Round 7
1   7   8   9   10  11  
6   5   4   3   2   12  

Round 8
1   6   7   8   9   10  
5   4   3   2   12  11  

Round 9
1   5   6   7   8   9   
4   3   2   12  11  10  

Round 10
1   4   5   6   7   8   
3   2   12  11  10  9   

Round 11
1   3   4   5   6   7   
2   12  11  10  9   8