Running a game tournament

[Hazza]

I am currently doing a task where I have programmed a board game, and have made computer players of the game using various algorithms. I am now trying to make a tournament amongst my players where every player plays every other player twice, with either one being given the first turn. I then have to make a List that lists the league positions of these various players in descending order by number of games won. I have to use Maps to initiate the tournament, but have no idea what should be the key and what should be the value?

[Hazza]

Why does nobody ever say anything?

[jim829]

Ok. I will say something. It's only been 5 hours since your original post. Sometimes it can be several days for someone to reply. Be patient.

Regards,
Jim

[Hazza]

I cannot believe nobody on the entire Internet has done this kind of thing before!

[JosAH]

Suppose the players are given a number 0, 1, 2 ... N-1. An NxN square matrix can model your tournament. The diagonal of the matrix is empty (a player can't play against him/herself). Each cell can take one of three values: row-player won, column-player won, not-played-yet. You don't need a map for that.

kind regards,

Jos

[Hazza]

But the marking scheme of the assignment says "Correct usage of Maps to initiate tournament"?!

[Ronin]

Assuming you have a player object you could map the players to numbers/indexes to uniquely identify each instance instead of using for example array indexes.

Regards.