Whist/Pinochle Tournament Generator

Seeder and optimizer with round reordering, for 20 players and up. Expand a seed row into a schedule, then balance how often each player sits at each table. Ready-made schedules are in the tournament creator, and the method is explained in the overview.

1 Schedule seeder

For 20 (4n) players and up (16 players has been worked out by JDAWiseman). Seeds come from Durango Bill's cyclic solutions.

From Durango Bill's site, or type your own row.
1b Base table
1c +1 transform
1d Schedule (pairs syntax)

2 Schedule optimizer

Adaptive table balancing: the search scales with the tournament size.

Strict guarantees the rule and now searches round order as well as table labels, which reaches ~90%+ even at 20 players and 100% from about 32 players up. Balanced and Relaxed may trade a violation for distribution, but rarely need to.
3 Optimized output Exact syntax, ready to download 

        

    


    
    

        
            
            Validation
            Side-by-side table comparison, before and after
            
        
        

            

        

    


    
    

        
            
            Sequence
            Each player's table, round by round
            
        
        

            

        

    


    
    

        
            
            Distribution
            Heatmaps of table, partner and opponent counts
            
        
        

            

                

                    
Table frequency

                    
Ideal: 3–5 visits per table.

                    

                

                

                    
Partner frequency

                    
Must be 1 for every pair.

                    

                

                

                    
Opponent frequency

                    
Must be 2 for every pair.