Soccer League Optimization: A heuristic Algorithm Inspired by the Football System in European Countries

In this paper a new heuristic optimization algorithm has been introduced based on the performance of the majorfootball leagues within each season in EU countries. The algorithm starts with an initial population including threedifferent groups of teams: the wealthiest (strongest), the regular, the poorest (weakest). Each individual ofpopulation constitute a football team while each player is an indication of a player in a post. The optimization canhopefully occurs when the competition among the teams in all the leagues is imitated as the strongest teams usuallypurchase the best players of the regular teams and in turn, regular teams purchase the best players of the weakestwho should always discover young players instead of buying professionals. It has been shown that the algorithm canhopefully converge to an acceptable solution solving various benchmarks.

Keywords:

Heuristic Algorithms , Soccer League Optimization