This task is not as daunting as it sounds. Most houses have their own scheduling program. However if your house doesn't have it's own scheduling program, you can always find a freeware one to download. Barring those first two options, there is always the manual option available. Fear not, the good people at USBC (United States Bowling Congress), formerly ABC (American Bowling Congress), have already done all the work for you.
Some important things to remember. The number of weeks doesn't matter, you can simply pick the number you need, you do not have to use the whole sheet and like wise, if you need more, you simply start over. Most leagues will use the last week as their play off/roll off week. So on that week instead of using the schedule, you just have the first seed play the second, the third play the fourth, and so on.
Also from time to time, you might not be able to fill a whole team, leaving you with an odd number of teams (13 or 11 or 9). This is not a problem. You can do one of two things in this scenario. You can ask if there are members of any team who don't mind being split up and play them on different teams that are missing a bowler. Another solution (the more popular choice since most bowlers joined to bowl with a specific team), is just to create a blind team. The blind team would consist of all blind average scores (setup in your league rules) and every week, one team would be bowling against the blind team. See links section below for further information.
You can download the USBC schedule for a 10 team league from USBC's website at bowl.com or you can use league software that has the schedule built in, such as CDE Software's BLS bowling league secretary software.
http://www.bowl.com/downloads/pdf/leagueSchedule_12Team.pdf
League schedules can be found on the United States Bowling Congress' website at www.bowl.com. They have schedules for 4 to 48 teams. Also, there is league software available on the market, such as CDE Software's Bowling League Secretary, that have the schedules built in. In your case, you would use a 16 team schedule.
League schedules can be found on the United States Bowling Congress' website at www.bowl.com. They have schedules for 4 to 48 teams. Also, there is league software available on the market, such as CDE Software's Bowling League Secretary, that have the schedules built in. In your case, you would follow a 12 week schedule.
League schedules can be found on the United States Bowling Congress' website at www.bowl.com. They have schedules for 4 to 48 teams. Also, there is league software available on the market, such as CDE Software's Bowling League Secretary, that have the schedules built in. In your situation, you would use a 6 team schedule and use a BYE team.
League schedules can be found on the United States Bowling Congress' website at www.bowl.com. They have schedules for 4 to 48 teams. Also, there is league software available on the market, such as CDE Software's Bowling League Secretary, that have the schedules built in. In your case, you would follow a 14 team schedule and use a BYE team.
League schedules can be found on the United States Bowling Congress' website at www.bowl.com. They have schedules for 4 to 48 teams. Also, there is league software available on the market, such as CDE Software's Bowling League Secretary, that have the schedules built in.
League schedules can be found on the United States Bowling Congress' website at www.bowl.com. They have schedules for 4 to 48 teams. Also, there is league software available on the market, such as CDE Software's Bowling League Secretary, that have the schedules built in. In your situation, you would use a 8 team schedule and use a BYE team.
Using software, such as CDE Software's Bowling League Software, you can set up a 15 week schedule based on the number of teams you have. You can also visit www.bowl.com and download a schedule for the number of teams you have.
The USBC has already done all the work for you. If you check out their site, they have formats for every combination. Just select the number of weeks that you need. See link below for more information.
Go to the closest bowling alley and ask a front desk person or a manager about linage costs for the league you want to set up. You and the manager can discuss the possible day that you would like to start this league and what works for the bowling alley as far as lane availability.
There currently is not a published schedule by USBC or the previous ABC/WIBC/YABA that had an 80 team schedule. CDE Software's league software, BLS-2013 currently supports the largest published schedule for 72 teams.