This book is a completely revised and updated version of the popular and successful Combinatorial designs: construction methods. It includes explanations throughout of the historical development of the study of tournaments as well as numerous exercises. The presentation is clear and readable, and the book provides material on the construction of tournament designs not readily available elsewhere.

• List of abbreviations ; 1. Introduction to basics ; 2. Difference methods ; 3. Symmetric designs ; 4. Orthogonal Latin squares ; 5. Self-orthogonal Latin squares ; 6. Steiner systems ; 7. Kirkman triple systems ; 8. League schedules ; 9. Room squares and bridge tournaments ; 10. Balanced tournament designs ; 11. Whist tournaments ; Bibliography ; Indexes

This book is a completely revised and updated version of the popular and successful Combinatorial designs: construction methods. It includes explanations throughout of the historical development of the study of tournaments as well as numerous exercises. The presentation is clear and readable, and the book provides material on the construction of tournament designs not readily available elsewhere.

• List of abbreviations ; 1. Introduction to basics ; 2. Difference methods ; 3. Symmetric designs ; 4. Orthogonal Latin squares ; 5. Self-orthogonal Latin squares ; 6. Steiner systems ; 7. Kirkman triple systems ; 8. League schedules ; 9. Room squares and bridge tournaments ; 10. Balanced tournament designs ; 11. Whist tournaments ; Bibliography ; Indexes