In this lesson, you will search for a schedule for a group of sports teams. There are 8 teams that play over 7 weeks. In each week there are 4 time periods. (For example, these time periods could be Tuesday night, Thursday night, Friday night, and Saturday afternoon.) Teams can play at home (in the stadium in their home town) or away (at a stadium in another team's town). Each team must play each other team exactly once. Each team plays only once each week. No team plays in the same time period more than twice.

The first step in modeling and solving a problem is to write a natural language description of the problem, identifying the variables and the constraints on these variables.

Write a natural language description of this problem. Answer these questions: