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Originally Posted by itsjustmrb
I am not going to get into the debate about whether an older team (lower number) is better or not, but I have noticed the match schedule seems to lump lower number teams together a little more often.(As well as bunch the higher numbers) For example, in the Curie Division last year, there were 50 teams numbered above 2130 and 49 below.
We played 8 matches against 24 teams, 11 of which were numbered over 2130 and 13 were below. Of the 16 alliance partners, 13 were numbered above and only 3 were below.
Maybe the schedule generator should randomize the numbers before the teams are dumped in the schedule instead of sequentially.
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That description describes the initial seeding, which is followed by hundreds of thousands of iterations to find a better schedule.
In fact using the test you suggest (for each match on Curie 2013 how many teams are >2130) the distribution is close to the expected distribution.
Stating it more precisely there is no significant evidence to suggest that the alliance pairings are non-random.