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Originally Posted by Boltman
As a follow up to my scheduling observations from CVR here are the key matches where "top teams" met on the same field of play as partners or as opponents. Of course there were many good teams but these tend to be the best by historic achievements. 179 peaked my interest to look a bit deeper. My definition of top teams are those I noted going in based on achievement. Forgive me if I missed someone.
as of now, every team # in picture identified is less than number 1679
What I did was only extracted every game in which top teams crossed paths or partnered up and the results are seemingly not random at first glance of the same field games.
Three matches the top teams faced against each other BUT there were SIX matches where they were also alliance partners
I did our matches and got TWO such pairings whereas 5136 had more (they also made WC) and we are within one Team# of them.
So I think the algorithm may weight previous WC pairings more favorably than head to heads. Again I only looked at games where giants crossed paths in qualification.
It can seem random (about two three games per, probably that way for most teams) but one would think that Head to head versus Side by Side alliance members would be more even. Not off by a about a factor of two.
I get what 179 is saying also about game scheduling and time between matches also one regional is not enough sample size but it is curious to look at. Like I said I noticed this last year, I see patterns quite well my job as scout/strategy mentor and it carries on into this year. Perhaps with more years I will see it start to even out. For now it doesn't really matter other than to satisfy my curiosity on how match scheduling really occurs.
The colors have nothing to do with my personal ranking of individual teams. Rather its just so I can identify the different top teams with different shades of green to better visualize it.
I'll run similar test next year to see if it is similar or balances it out assuming we go to one the powerhouse regional's again..they are fun. Hard to miss them around CA.
In the end I would not doubt this is done for entertainment value, as a bunch of 50 point games is not real exciting (140 is) however its not the most efficient way of getting as 179 calls it the "next generation" to show up regularly at worlds . They seem to have an uphill swim and scheduling in regional's could explain some of it. Perhaps it can be a reason why some don't make it for quite a while. But occasionally they do punch through. In no way did this affect us we got what we earned in both regional's and could not ask for more than that this season.
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Whatever you think you're seeing here, you're wrong. There is nothing about the algorithm that weights whether a team has made it to Champs. You're grasping at straws.