Match Scheduling

tournamentsoftware's Badminton Tournament Planner is great for making draws, but their match scheduling functionality is lacking. For example, it is impossible to schedule consolation matches to take less time than main matches.

What It Does

This script generates the match schedule for a tournament either by specifying the number of entires for each event or by passing in an Excel spreadsheet of draws exported from tournamentsoftware's Badminton Tournament Planner.

Dependencies

This works with python2, but not python3 because of its dependency on xlrd.

Setup

1. Specify the number of entries for each eventmatches/number of entries

Usage - Specify Number of Entires for Each Event

The fastest and easiest way to run this script is to define num_entries_by_event in matches_maker.py's main() function in this form:

num_entries_by_event = {event1_name: event1_num_entries,
						event2_name: event2_num_entries,
						...
						eventN_name: eventN_num_entries}

Then run scheduler.py:

$ python scheduler.py

Usage - Pass in Excel Spreadsheet of Draws

Another way to run this script is to parse a spreadsheet of draws. Make sure you forward all matches for all draws, then export the draws.

Then run scheduler.py:

$ python scheduler.py <full_path_to_spread_sheet>

Products

Running the script writes schedules to the following folders:

• by_match_number: Schedules sorted by match number. One file for each event.
• by_time: Schedules sorted by start time. One file for each event and one file for each day of matches.
• start_times: One file for each day that contains the start times of events on that day.