Fair Schedules for Single Round Robin Tournaments with Ranked Participants

• A new measure capturing fairness of a schedule in a tournament: ranking fairness • We provide real-life examples illustrating the relevance of ranking fairness • An intricate construction providing ranking-fair single-break schedules • Integer programming-based solutions for computing ranking-fair single-break schedules • The Canonical Pattern Set does not admit ranking-fair schedules We introduce a new measure to capture fairness of a schedule in a single round robin (SRR) tournament when par