calculate fixtures

fixtures.py

__author__ = 'yousuf'

from dateutil.rrule import *
from dateutil.relativedelta import *
import itertools
import datetime
import random

teams = 18
teams = range(1, teams+1)

#calculate possible fixture combinations

fixcombos = list(itertools.combinations(teams,2))
random.shuffle(fixcombos)

nofixtures = len(fixcombos)

datestart = datetime.date.today()
dateend = datestart + datetime.timedelta(days=125)

#calculate possible fixture dates,
# rrule is part of dateutil (a custom python library for date manipulation)
# SA and SU stands for saturday and sunday

fixdays = list(rrule(DAILY, byweekday=(SA,SU), dtstart=datestart, until=dateend))

nofmatchdays = len(fixdays)

perday = nofixtures/nofmatchdays +1

perday = range(0,perday)

for x in perday:
    fixdays = fixdays + fixdays

fixarray = range(0, nofixtures)

for y in fixarray:
    printline = 'Date: ' + str(fixdays[y]) + ': Teams Involved: ' + str(fixcombos[y])
    print printline