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Originally Posted by Ed Law
If it is possible, the software should have an option to take into account the team's performance so far in the season in order to generate a "fair" match schedule for FiM or MAR Region Championship or World Championship.
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Thanks Gary, I am referring back to my original post. I am proposing that the software has this performance metrics as an option that a user can turn on and off. We can turn it on for FiM and MAR Region Championship only at the organizer's discretion and also for World Championship. We can not use it for Week 1 and 2. We should not use it for Qualifying (district) events when there are only 40 teams. It will work well at the Championships when there are 64 (FiM) and 87 (World) teams.
Yes it is true that there can be multiple solutions that are "good enough" and all of them will work. The only reason why I think the solution should be unique is so that no one will suggest somebody keep running the program until they like the results. However assigning the actual team numbers to the placeholder team number can still be manipulated. Ideally no human should be involved in creating the schedule except for the programmers who programmed it and somebody pressing a button. We also do not want teams to run the program themselves and know ahead of time what the schedule is.
Gary, are you involved in generating the schedule at an event? Maybe somebody can shed some light as to how it is actually done so people don't speculate.