Pin Golf Options?

[coreyhulse]

A few years back I made a post on the “Social Golfer” problem and how it might apply to seeds in Finals:

Social Squares - Group Round Robin

A topic I have been doing some research on is the idea of a round-robin, but a group match play round-robin as opposed to head-to-head to see there’s a way that you can play every opponent once and only once but still have games of either 3 or 4 players. I came across this concept of a Social Square which seems to allow for just that (in specific cases): https://www.devenezia.com/round-robin/forum/?topic=774 The example they cite is for 16 players: [image] If you are player A, then you need…

Your ask seems like a classic “Social Golfer” problem, but with the added complexity that you need to make sure each person plays each hole once (no repeats) but does allow flexibility in that you could be paired up with someone more than once and that’s OK.

How many people and machines are you looking to have? How many holes? If we know that, we could think of a schedule like the examples Bob and Colin gave that allows people to:

• Play each machine once
• Rotate playing partners

When are you planning a PinGolf event?

I can then see about making a Google Sheet that would allow you to plop in Players and Machines, and then it can have “cards” you can print out for each person so they know their schedule.