Amazon.com description: Product Description: The purpose of this newly revised edition is to teach the reader how to construct and schedule a variety of sports tournaments in a variety of ways. It also presents the factors that influence the selection of a particular tournament to satisfy a particular set of conditions or intentions. The text provides a comprehensive yet easily understandable background to the structural design of tournaments, the mathematics that are part of their construction, and the processes involved with scheduling participants for play within virtually all types of elimination, consolation, placement, and round-robin tournaments. Using a step-by-step format, the author explains how the various types of tournaments work, what they can and cannot do, how to form them given any set of circumstances, the advantages and disadvantages of their use, and the calculations that can be made to determine the time to complete a tournament. Acceptance of entries, structuring schedules, methods of communicating schedules with participants, and the determination of exactly where and when who plays whom are thoroughly presented. The original 20 chapters have been significantly revised to reflect different and updated approaches to conducting sports tournaments. This latest edition will serve as a comprehensive guide for recreation directors, coaches, and physical educators.