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Physical Education Unit - 1 Planning in Sports 3 Topic League Tournament

The document discusses different methods for drawing fixtures in league tournaments, including the cyclic method where teams rotate opponents each round, the staircase method where fixtures are arranged like steps, and the tabular method where fixtures are arranged in a table. League tournaments involve each team playing every other team once or twice, depending on if it is a single or double league. Fixtures determine the schedule of matches between teams in a round-robin or league format tournament.

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Physical Education Unit - 1 Planning in Sports 3 Topic League Tournament

The document discusses different methods for drawing fixtures in league tournaments, including the cyclic method where teams rotate opponents each round, the staircase method where fixtures are arranged like steps, and the tabular method where fixtures are arranged in a table. League tournaments involve each team playing every other team once or twice, depending on if it is a single or double league. Fixtures determine the schedule of matches between teams in a round-robin or league format tournament.

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Unit – 1 Planning in sports


rd
3 topic

League Tournament:-
In this type of tournament each team plays with every other team once if it is a single league

tournament and each team plays with every other team twice if it is a double league

tournament. Method to draw the fixture in league tournament:-

(a) Cyclic method

In cyclic method, if the number of teams is in even number, the team number 1 is fixed on the top of

right hand side and then other team numbers in ascending order consecutively downward and then

upward on the left hand side and then from the next round teams will rotate in clockwise direction. If

the number of teams is odd then the bye is fixed on the top of right hand side and rest of the

procedure will remain same. If the number of team is even number than number of rounds will be (N-

1). If the number of teams is odd number then number of rounds will be equal to number of teams.

Fixture according to cyclic method


Example: Draw a fixture of 6 teams on league basis according to cyclic method.
Answer: Total number of teams = 6
=n(n−
n(n−
n(n
n(n−−1)
1)
1)
1)

Total number of matches


= 2 =
6(6− 1)
6×5

30 2 2

2
22
2

= =15
Number of rounds = n-1 = 6-1 = 5 rounds.
Fixtures
Round-1 Round-2 Round-3 Round-4 Round-5
6- 1 5- 1 4- 1 3- 1 2- 1
5-2 4-6 3-5 2-4 6-3
4-3 3-2 2-6 6-5 5-4

Stair-case Method: In stair-case method, the fixtures are made just like a ladder or a stair- case.
In this method, no bye is given to any team and there is no problem of even or odd number of teams.
Example: Draw a fixture of 9 teams on league basis according to stair-case method.

Solution: Fixture

1-2
1-3 2-3
1-4 2-4 3-4
1-5 2-5 3-5 4-5
1-6 2-6 3-6 4-6 5-6
1-7 2-7 3-7 4-7 5-7 6-7
1-8 2-8 3-8 4-8 5-8 6-8 7-8
1-9 2-9 3-9 4-9 5-9 6-9 7-9 8-9
Tabular Method: In tabular method, the fixtures are made just like row and table. In this method,
bye will be given to odd number of team.
For Even number of team i.e. 6

A B C D E F

A 1 2 3 4 5
B 3 4 5 2
C 5 1 4
D 2 1

 3F

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For Odd number of team i.e. 7
A B C D E F G Bye

A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

B 3 4 5 6 7 2

C 5 6 7 1 4

D 7 1 2 6

E 2 3 1

4 3
5
Bye

Combination tournament:
Combination tournament are those tournament in which initial rounds of a tournament played on a
particular basis (knock out league) and rest or the other particular basis knock out/ league.

Fixture: - make the groups of equal teams i.e.

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Questions:

1. What do you mean by league tournament?


2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of league tournament?
3. Prepare a fixture of 9 teams on league basis using cyclic method.
4. Prepare a fixture of 11 teams on league basis using staircase method.
5. Write the procedure of fixtures in league tournaments?

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