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Subject: Re: Name for a type of chart, and GUI implementation of it in Java?
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 08:25:04 -0400
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On 03/25/2012 12:04 AM, Daniel Pitts wrote:
> Say I have a tournament with n players, and each player faces each other
> player exactly once. I want to efficiently display the final player
> scores. I recall seeing a table which had the players listed on the
> diagonal, and each "cell" contained the pairing score "x"/"y". Eg.
>
>
> +---+---+---+
> |3/ |14/|4 /|
> Sam |/ 2|/ 3|/22|
> +---+---+---+
> b |3 /|5 /|
> o |/ 4|/55|
> B +---+---+
> n |7 /|
> a |/ 4|
> D +---+
> u
> o
> L
>
> You could then see the pairing score by finding the intersecting
> column/row of the pair you're looking for. For example, Sam/Bob pairing
> is row 1 (Sam), and column 1 (Bob). Bob had 2, Sam at 3.
> The Bob/Lou pairing is Row 1 (Bob) column 3 (Lou). Bob had 5, and Lou
> had 55. Actually, poor Bob did terrible in my example.
>
> Is there a name for this kind of chart/table? Has anyone seen an
> implementation in Java? I could do something like this in JTable, but I
> think there must be a prettier way to render it :-)
>
Sorry, I cannot find a name. There are plenty of scheduler 
implementations, but none with charts that I could find.
There are pictures here:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin_tournament>, and here:
<http://tinyurl.com/7flz6w7>, and an active discussion board here:
<http://www.devenezia.com/round-robin/forum/YaBB.pl>.