To FootCited, Daily Telegraph, 2001-03-08 Thu, page 4E.
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This repeatedly randomly assigns players to matches in rounds of a doubles tournament, assessing the demerit of each distribution and retaining the best one. A perfect score, of zero, is at best improbable.
Players are assumed to be Pairs, e.g. Mr. & Mrs.; and Pairs are known by the symbols A-Z a-z 0-9 # $. Enter the number of Pairs, the number of Rounds per tournament, and the number of Tournaments to try.
In the M/F rows of the output, the first M and the first F play the second of each, the thirds play the fourths, the fifths ... .
Note : the actual counting of penalties remains uncertain.
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