THE SPORTS SCHEDULING GROUP

 

“Maximizing the Value of Your Playing Schedule”

 

The Sports Scheduling Group is a collection of distinctively experienced, talented professionals who are dedicated to assisting professional sports leagues and intercollegiate athletic conferences “maximize the value of their playing schedules”.

 

Preparing a playing schedule is becoming more complex as it becomes harder to balance the objectives of maximizing revenue (broadcast and venue); maximizing travel efficiencies; maintaining “competitive fairness” and accommodating the needs of a diverse group of constituents that includes fans, coaches, players, media, sponsors and facility owners and operators.

 

Our more than a decade of experience, and unique combination of sports business and scheduling experience; programming expertise; and state-of-the-art technology and computing resources enables us to provide the best possible scheduling solutions to the most complex of scheduling problems.  Contact us to discuss how we can assist you in “maximizing the value of your playing schedule”.

 

Success Stories!

The Sports Scheduling Group has been selected as the schedulers for Major League Baseball for their 2005, 2007, and 2008 seasons!

 

The Sports Scheduling Group was selected as the schedulers for Major League Baseball umpires for the 2006 season.

 

The Sports Scheduling Group has scheduled dozens of college leagues, including football, baseball, basketball, and every other intercollegiate sport.

 

See the articles

 

MLB.com The Schedule is a Major undertaking (April 5, 2006)

 

Sports Illustrated Matchmakers vs the Machine (Nov 1, 2004)

(registration required)

 

Pittsburgh Business Times Striking it Big (Nov 12, 2004)

 

ESPN.com MLB gets a New Scheduler for ’05 (Dec 1, 2004) (also appeared in New York Times and forty other newspapers)

 

 

 

 

CLIENTS

 


Major League Baseball

 

Atlantic Coast Conference

 

Mountain West Conference

 

Western Athletic Conference

 

Big East Conference

 

Mid-Continent Conference

 

Colonial Athletic Conference

 

Mid-American Conference

 

Sun Belt Conference

 

Southland Conference

 


 

ABOUT US

 

 

Doug Bureman, Coordinating Partner.  Former Senior Vice President Business Operations, Pittsburgh Pirates.

 

George Nemhauser (Ph.D.), Partner.  A. Russell Chandler Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech Institute of Technology.

 

Michael Trick (Ph.D.), Partner.  Professor of Operations Research, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University.

 

Kelly Easton (Ph.D.), Chief Scheduler.

 

 

 

CONTACT US

 

 

THE SPORTS SCHEDULING GROUP LLC

 

384 New Castle Road                      Tel.:     724-283-6080

Butler, PA 16001                              e-mail:    dbureman@aol.com