Asian Journal of Multidimensional Research (AJMR)
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 8

Sports analytics: Indian premier league scheduling problem

  • Author:
  • Richa Saxena1, Riddhi Kanwal2, Saiyam Jain3, Shanay Gandhi4, Shefali Soni5
  • Total Page Count: 9
  • Page Number: 42 to 50

1Assistant Professor, NMIMS, ASMSOC, Mumbai Campus, India, Email id: richaks04@gmail.com

2Student, NMIMS, ASMSOC, Mumbai Campus, India, Email id: riddhikanwal155@gmail.com

3Student, NMIMS, ASMSOC, Mumbai Campus, India, Email id: saiyamjain172@yahoo.in

4Student, NMIMS, ASMSOC, Mumbai Campus, India, Email id: shanay.gandhi@gmail.com

5Student, NMIMS, ASMSOC, Mumbai Campus, India, Email id: shefalisonii99@gmail.com

Online published on 17 September, 2019.

Abstract

Indian Premier League (IPL) is one of the most successful and popular tournament amongst cricket playing nations in the world. This paper aims at applying operations research to the problem of scheduling the IPL games in India. Sports scheduling has been based and restricted to one variable, which is the minimization of distance travelled by teams during the course of the tournament. We have used the Linear programming problems technique to analyse the application of sports scheduling in the Indian premier league. The limitations of the paper are broadly categorised under economic and overall spectacle contribution reasons. In conclusion, linear programming can be applied in scheduling IPL matches to save costs and maintain a home and away game balance.

Keywords

Minimization Problems, IPL, Scheduling Problems, Linear Programming