{"id":282,"date":"2008-05-28T14:46:23","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T18:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=276"},"modified":"2008-05-28T14:46:23","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T18:46:23","slug":"more-success-for-or-and-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/28\/more-success-for-or-and-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"More success for OR and sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ILOG has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/p-172480~Japan_Professional_Football_League_Optimizes_Match_Scheduling_With_ILOG_Constraint_Programming.html\">press release on using constraint programming<\/a> for the Japanese Football (soccer for Americans) League.\u00a0 Seems like a pretty big league:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    J. LEAGUE is a top professional football (soccer) league in <location>Japan<\/location> and one of the most successful leagues in the Asian Football Confederation. The organization recognized a need to automate and streamline its complex match scheduling process, involving 33 teams and 79 schedules, with a total of 682 matches over a 10-month playing season. With no packaged application available for complex scheduling, J. LEAGUE decided on a custom approach based on optimization technology from ILOG. Optimization improves business decision making speed and efficiency by allowing organizations to calculate the best utilization of existing resources &#8212; in this case, team personnel, stadiums and spectators.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is not clear why 33 teams need 79 schedules!\u00a0 I find it hard enough to find a schedule for every team in a league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ILOG has a press release on using constraint programming for the Japanese Football (soccer for Americans) League.\u00a0 Seems like a pretty big league: J. LEAGUE is a top professional football (soccer) league in Japan and one of the most successful leagues in the Asian Football Confederation. The organization recognized a need to automate and streamline &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/28\/more-success-for-or-and-sports\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More success for OR and sports&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-or-in-the-press","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}