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A whole new ballgame: Major League Baseball gets its first new scheduler in 24 years.(front line)(The Sports Scheduling Group)
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Industrial Engineer
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February 1, 2005
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2005 Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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For nearly 25 years, the husband and wife team of Henry and Holly Stephenson has assembled the Major League Baseball schedule. But that will change this spring, when a small company called The Sports Scheduling Group will take over scheduling duties for the 2005 season. The four-person partnership wrested the contract from the Stephensons after eight previous attempts. SSG introduced the use of computers to optimize the schedule as opposed to designing the season by hand.
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George Nemhauser, Ph.D., one of SSG's partners, is an industrial and systems engineering professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Experience optimizing schedules for ...
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