Tournament Scheduler

Creating a Java Desktop Application for normal people to organise inhouse tournaments using Java Eclipse, windows builder Builder and to connect to a apache MySQL database. It needs to use a computer science algorithm which can create fair/even fixtures for the tournament based on team ratings(seeding). The system should be used by normal people to organise tournaments quickly.

Fair Team Generator:
The user will firstly enter the tournament details (Name, Date, Number of teams, Start Time, End Time e.t.c).

Tournament Scheduler:
The next algorithm that needs to be implemented is a round robin scheduling algorithms. This should take in the users input for the tournament, using the number of teams, number of pitches and timings to produce a suitable schedule for the tournament. The user should be able to select whether to have knock out tournament or straight round robin tournament. For the knockout tournament, the schedules are produced on the results of the matches e.g. based on the winners going through to the next stage. A schedule should be produced providing the times for each match, the teams, the pitch and the referees e.t.c. The tournaments are usually held in one day, so it would be good if the user enters a start / end time for the tournament, then the algorithm can evenly distribute the timetable.

fixture generator
once the user chooses which tournament type to use, once submitted it should generate a fixture list for the teams based on the seedings.

database
all this should be on stored in the apache database.

with login systems