| Article ID: | iaor201111215 |
| Volume: | 39 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Start Page Number: | 428 |
| End Page Number: | 432 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2011 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Spieksma Frits C R, Goossens Dries R |
| Keywords: | sports |
The concept of a break is generalized by considering pairs of arbitrary rounds. Finding a set of home‐away patterns minimizing the number of breaks is NP‐hard. In case of identical break sets, the decision version becomes easy.