Date: March, 3rd, 11h30
Place: Room Rotule NO8 – ULB Bruxelles
Abstract: Soccer has become a major business involving many stakeholders, such as teams, police, fans, sponsors, and broadcasting companies. Huge amounts of money are being paid for the broadcasting rights, illustrating the economic value of soccer competitions. It also emphasizes the relevance of finding a good schedule. Each involved party has numerous (possibly conflicting) constraints and wishes, and a schedule that satisfies all constraints and wishes simply doesn’t exist. Hence, developing a schedule that is considered fair, and that is acceptable to all parties, is a challenge.
We describe our experience in scheduling the ProLeague over the last seasons. We outline some of the different models we used, and we emphasize the advantages of using model-based schedules: transparency, perceived fairness, or simply said: the quality of the schedule.
