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Overview

Overview​

Scheduling is the process of assigning dates, venues, courts and times to tournament matchUps.

In TODS, scheduling information is attached to matchUps as timeItems and the schedule is derived by interrogating the scheduling information attached to matchUps. This approach means that there is no master schedule object; it also means that when drawDefinitions or draw structures are removed there is no schedule to be cleared.

In the Competition Factory, scheduling is accomplished either direclty via scheduling methods such as addMatchUpScheduledDate, or automatically via scheduleMatchUps or scheduleProfileRounds.

Automated scheduling, along with direct assignment of venues and courts, depends on having venues with courts which have defined dateAvailability.

Iterative Garman scheduling​

The Competition Factory engine supports Garman scheduling of matchUps from multiple tournaments across shared venues.

The Garman formula calculates the times at which matchUps may be scheduled, taking into consideration court availability and average minutes per match, but it does not inherently support the average minutes per matchUp being different across blocks of matchUps.