Schedule checks · Home and away

Check home and away streaks in a round robin schedule

Published: November 7, 2026

Read each team's fixtures in round order. Write H for home, A for away, and B for a bye. Count the longest runs as well as the season totals. Keep byes in the sequence when your rule applies to consecutive rounds. Skip them when the rule applies to consecutive games played.

What the generated fixtures showed

The MakeTheBoard rehearsal used six synthetic team labels in this order: Aster, Birch, Cedar, Dune, Elm, and Fern. The page describes the second leg as a repeat with sides swapped. For the home and away mode, the fixture's first side is treated as home in this audit. The record describes listed sides and assigns no actual venues.

Cedar finished five home and five away in the double schedule. How did that balance arise? Cedar was first on four fixtures and second on one in the single schedule. In double mode the first five stayed H H A H H, and the return leg ran A A H A A.

Birch's rounds 5 and 6 were both away. That's the pair a check that restarts at the return leg misses. Birch went H A A H A A H H A H. Aster alternated H and A across all ten rounds, with a longest run of one. Both finished five home and five away.

Does Dune's bye break the run? With Fern cleared and double mode still on, Dune went A B A A H H B H H A. The longest home run spanned two adjacent rounds, 5 and 6 or 8 and 9. Skip the bye at round 7 and those make four straight home games played. The total was four home and four away.

Which rule should the schedule pass?

Write the rule beside the result before sharing the schedule. If a league allows at most two home dates in consecutive rounds, a bye breaks the run. If it allows at most two consecutive home games played, the same bye does not break it. Record the team, side and round numbers for each run that exceeds the limit.

Check the column labels before doing this on another generator. Random Team Split's round robin generator labels its two sides as display positions. Supply a separate home and away assignment if you want to audit that schedule for venue streaks.