Carry-Over tournament design for 12+12=24 players

Julian D. A. Wiseman, March 2002

This is a carry-over tournament design for 12+12=24 players. It therefore assumes that two qualifying leagues (called ‘Roman’ and ‘Italic’) have played an all-play-all, and that the top 12 players from each are through to the final. In the final these 24 players are then to play each other, except that games already played between them are ‘carried over’. The players in the Roman league are called A, B, C, etc, and those in the Italic league a, b, c, etc.

It was last updated in March 2002.

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Also see the carry-over explanation and the links to similar designs for other numbers of players.

Properties of this tournament design:

	i	ii	iii	iv	v	vi	vii	viii	ix	x	xi	xii
1	f:I	e:K	k:E	i:F	J:b	C:h	L:a	D:g	G:d	A:l	H:c	B:j
2	F:k	E:i	K:f	I:e	d:H	l:B	c:G	j:A	b:L	h:D	a:J	g:C
3	K:i	I:k	e:F	f:E	L:c	D:j	J:d	C:l	a:H	B:g	G:b	h:A
4	e:E	F:f	I:i	K:k	a:G	g:A	b:H	h:B	c:J	j:C	d:L	l:D
5	J:h	g:L	l:G	H:j	f:C	b:I	e:D	K:a	A:k	d:E	i:B	c:F
6	H:l	G:j	L:h	J:g	k:B	d:F	A:i	E:c	f:D	b:K	C:e	I:a
7	j:L	l:J	H:g	G:h	D:i	K:c	C:k	I:d	B:e	a:F	f:A	E:b
8	G:g	H:h	j:J	L:l	e:A	a:E	B:f	F:b	C:i	I:c	D:k	K:d
9	C:b	D:a	A:d	B:c	h:I	J:f	g:K	L:e	E:l	k:G	F:j	i:H
10	d:B	c:A	b:D	a:C	F:l	k:H	E:j	i:G	h:K	L:f	g:I	J:e
11	c:D	d:C	B:a	A:b	j:K	i:L	l:I	k:J	g:F	e:H	h:E	f:G
12	A:a	b:B	c:C	D:d	E:g	G:e	F:h	H:f	j:I	i:J	l:K	k:L

Each player plays exactly once each of the players in the other league.
Each player plays exactly once at each venue.
Each player plays six times on each side (left and right).
It is seeded, so that important games come late in the tournament. It is assumed that player A is better than B, etc, and that a is better than b, etc. (Usually rankings are determined by the players’ scores in the qualifying rounds.)
It has a permutation score of 16103.76361311829896, which is either maximal or near-maximal.
It has a left-right asymmetry measure of 73356097/768398400 = 0.09546623, which is minimal.