Soccer tournament and arrangement in arithmetical progession
Source: Balkan MO ShortList 2010 C1
April 5, 2020
Problem Statement
In a soccer tournament each team plays exactly one game with all others. The winner gets points, the loser gets and each team gets point in case of a draw. It is known that teams () participated in the tournament and the final classification is given by the arithmetical progression of the points, the last team having only 1 point.[*] Prove that this configuration is unattainable when
[*] Find all values of and all configurations when this is possible