Notes on Youth Football shed testing August 2022
1. It was running ok as before but would always fail to schedule around 50 games out of the 439
2. Would put them on 12/1/2021 (April game)
3. Have yf sched auto put shed into json and save into db
4. New messages page view yf ssched h log – program dumps messages into array and converts to json and then on page loops through and prints, pretty long
5. Now view json schedules view yf sched json
8/10 save
– Original yf sched save for safekeeping
8/12
– Was trying to do catchup round using new thoughts
– This did not seem to do that well, seemed to produce 70 to 80 games not done vs 50 or so with original program
8/15
– First test at redoing whole schedule, this went through one team at a time, tried to schedule all games for that team, results not that great
– No concern on slots, all gyms have unlimited slots on a weekend
– This try had it going through list of teams in random order, when on one team it would go through week and try and schedule all there games
– Out of the 36 games needed it missed 6 games – all missing from team 9
8/16
– Last test, wanted to try doing entire schedule with no ‘round 1 ‘ where we try to maximize one whole town listing another town for games on the same weekend
– The thought was that this round one was scheduling 2/3 of the schedule and was playing havoc with ‘randomness’
– And was making It hard with what was left to schedule all the games
– Two main items on scheduling :
– 1: can only play any team once
– 2. Have to match up on open weekends, can only play one game a week so both teams have to be open that weekend
– 3. ‘Unlimited slots’ at the fields/gyms; don’t worry about any slots – just schedule them as long as satisfy first two rules
– This program just printed array of games on the view messages page
– Program was doing a ‘die()’ before got to the prior catchup round stuff
– Was not saving any schedule into json since died before that
– And ignored the first round games scheduled into db; they did not matter for this test
– Created one fake division
– 9 teams, 9 weeks, all get 8 games
– The approach here was to go through one week at a time starting with week1
– Try to shedule everybody in a game
– Just had to check if they have played that team already and then make sure they do not have a game that week yet
– List of teams was just a hard coded array
– Every week wanted it to go through that list in random order
– Figured out how to make it do that using php ’shuffle’
– This program did very well! It scheduled 34 out of the 36 games needed – the best result we have ever gotten
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