chris-moreton/tournament-utils

Utilities for managing tournaments, particularly engine v engine tournaments

tournament-utils

Classes for determining pairings for tournaments., _(*1)

Currently Round Robin is the only one I've written., _(*2)

Getting started

From the root of your application, _(*3)

composer require chris-moreton/tournament-utils

Unless using a framework where autoloading is already taken care of, you'll need to, _(*4)

include 'vendor/autoload.php';

/* 
 * 5 players
 * ------------------------------------------------
 *          |   R1  |   R2  |   R3  |   R4  |  R5
 * ------------------------------------------------
 * Player 1 | 1 2 3 | 1 - 2 | 1 5 - | 1 4 5 | 1 3 4
 * Player 2 | - 5 4 | 5 4 3 | 4 3 2 | 3 2 - | 2 - 5
 */

$t = new Netsensia\Tournament\RoundRobin\Schedule(5);

// [player1, player2, round_number]

[2,5,1] == $t->getNextPairing();
[3,4,1] == $t->getNextPairing();
[1,5,2] == $t->getNextPairing();
[2,3,2] == $t->getNextPairing();
[1,4,3] == $t->getNextPairing();
[5,3,3] == $t->getNextPairing();
[1,3,4] == $t->getNextPairing();
[4,2,4] == $t->getNextPairing();
[1,2,5] == $t->getNextPairing();
[4,5,5] == $t->getNextPairing();

null == $t->getNextPairing();