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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol
It's not quite random; teams are divided roughly in numerical order.
Several years ago it was strictly numerical, in a serpentine fashion.
For the last couple years, no one could figure out the pattern they used.
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I tried to find a pattern in 09, I think it is random with no constants other than roughly equal numbers in each division. Below is an excerpt from my spreadsheet analyzing the number of times the same division occurred in a row (348 teams in numerical order) vs expected value if it was 348 rolls of a 4 sided die. It is incredibly close so am going with dice roll style random. Excerpt below:
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Same division in a row 2 3 4 5 6
Actual 348 85 21 8 2 1
Expected 348 86.24783862 21.18805284 5.158830257 1.244717765 0.297571011