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Originally Posted by Alpha Beta
Now to go figure out who the wildcards would have been.
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Sure, why not.
From the original list, posted by Alpha Beta, I've removed all the teams who double qualified at the same event, and did not qualify again. Next, I eliminated the initial qualifying instance of each team. That leaves us with 17 teams generating 19 potential wild card spots. From here I sorted these potential spots by the week that the regional occurred at, to make sure we capture any new wildcard spots generated by wildcard spots created earlier in the season. An extra wild card spot was created by 111 earning a wild card at Midwest, and then going on to win Minnesota North Star. The final results are below, with a list of the 20 wild cards, along with when, where and who they were generated by.
Some immediate observations:
- Only one wild card spot was created prior to week 4
- Wild card spots went to non alliance captains 6/20 times, with a 2nd pick earning one just once.
- The 111 situation is a bit odd, since they're a pre-qualified Hall of Fame team, yet they can still generate a wild card spot by being a wild card, even though they don't need a wild card. It works based on what we know of the rules, but it's definitely counter-intuitive
Code:
Team Event Week WC
1477 LA 3 2992
16 IL 4 111
233 MA 4 78 (1st pick), 125 bypassed -- already qualified
1986 MO 4 1208
340 OH 4 188
1507 OH 4 1551 (1st pick)
1114 WAT 4 1503
2056 WAT 4 2852
48 WI 4 2481
181 CT 5 1071
16 DA 5 3676
148 DA 5 2948 (1st pick)
111* MN2 5 3293
2056 ON2 5 3161
1592 SFL 5 79
971 SJ 5 3256 (1st pick), 1868 bypassed -- already qualified
1717 CAF 6 1323
1311 NC 6 1771 (1st pick), 2614 bypassed -- already qualified
987 NV 6 2034
359 TX 6 2773 (2nd pick), 624 & 1447 bypassed -- already qualified