Optimal realignments of the teams in the National Football League

Article Abstract:

Two proposed realignments of the National Football League's 30 teams aimed reducing total intradivisional travel time and costs are discussed. The first model involves the division of the 30 teams into six divisions each made up of five teams. The second model involves the realignment of the teams within the National Football Conference and American Football Conference. It is shown that the models can reduce intradivisional travel costs by as much as $1 million annually.

Sports Teams and Clubs, Sports clubs, managers, & promoters, Professional Football, Models, Scheduling (Management), Calendar, Football teams, Nonlinear programming

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Maximizing the production rate in simple assembly line balancing - a branch and bound procedure

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A branch and bound procedure for maximizing the production rate of assembly line balancing processes has been developed. The procedure has been used to solve the NP-hard problem Simple Assembly Line Balancing Problem Type 2 (SALBP-2). It solves SALBP-2 through the use of the Local Lower Bound Method. Computational experiments show that the branch and bound procedure is highly efficient.

Methods, Usage, Branch and bound algorithms, Assembly-line balancing

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