Fair referee assignments for professional football leagues

Authors:
Mesut Yavuz;Umut H. İnan;Alpaslan Fığlalı
Affiliations:
Research and Engineering Education Facility, University of Florida, Shalimar, Florida, USA;Department of Industrial Engineering, Yıldız Teknik íniversitesi, İstanbul, Turkey;Department of Industrial Engineering, Kocaeli íniversitesi, Kocaeli, Turkey
Venue:
Computers and Operations Research
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Assignment of referees to football games is an important problem faced in professional football leagues. Despite its importance, the problem has received limited academic attention. This paper presents a model and analysis of the problem for fair referee assignments, and develops a constructive heuristic and a local search procedure for its solution. Results from an extensive computational study show that the methods are effective in solving the problem in a second of computation time and yielding an excellent solution quality.