Türkiye futbol liginde simultane oyun programlama ve hakem atama için genetik algoritma

Scheduling games in a league and referee assignment are important planning tasks of professional football federations. Previous research studied game scheduling and referee assignment problems separately. This thesis presents an integer linear model for simultaneously scheduling Turkish Football League (Süper Lig) matches and assigning referees to games. Due to the difficulty in obtaining an exact solution, we also develop a genetic algorithm for solving the problem approximately. In solving the simultaneous problem we consider several constraints used by Turkish Football Federation (TFF) along with additional constraints that are important for a good schedule. We use Turkish league data from 2010-2013 in our analysis of the developed genetic algorithm. Our heuristic approach provides a general framework that can be used for other leagues as well.