案例库 · 战略与领导 · 运营决策 · 2005–2017
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Integer programming schedules Chile's soccer leagues, adding about $59 million in value.
Since 2005 the ANFP has used integer programming to set fixtures, cutting team travel, boosting TV and ticket revenue, and scheduling World Cup qualifiers.
ANFP
那一手
For 12 years the Chilean Professional Soccer Association (ANFP) has scheduled its leagues with integer-programming models that decide which matches are played each round under operational, economic and sporting constraints.
The approach replaced hand-built fixtures with fairer, transparent schedules: teams got balanced home-and-away patterns, travel costs fell, and broadcaster and ticket revenue rose.
The ANFP estimates direct economic impact of about $59 million across more than 50 tournaments, including TV operating-cost cuts, subscriber growth, ticket gains and lower team travel. INFORMS named the work a 2016 Edelman finalist.
为什么管用
- A model can weigh fairness, cost and TV appeal in one optimization run.
- Portable code lets the same techniques schedule leagues and qualifiers elsewhere.
- Transparent rules build fan trust in fixture fairness.
可以搬走什么
When a recurring coordination problem has many stakeholders, encode their constraints in one model: the same solver can be re-sold to every league with the same shape.
后来呢
Chilean leagues still schedule this way, and the research group exported the tools to Argentine volleyball and basketball and to the 2018 World Cup qualifiers, spreading OR to thousands of students and millions of viewers.
资料来源
- Operations Research Transforms the Scheduling of Chilean Soccer Leagues and South American World Cup Qualifiers (full paper PDF)
- Scheduling the Chilean Soccer League by Integer Programming (Interfaces 2007, full paper PDF)
- 2016 Edelman Finalist Announcement (via Internet Archive)
- Operations Research Transforms the Scheduling of Chilean Soccer Leagues (Interfaces 47(1), 2017)
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