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Re: [FVC]: Longer competitions

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Originally Posted by rswsmay View Post
Dave,

We could not find a happy medium when generating the match schedules. When we tried to set a lower minimum match spacing, we sometimes ended up with teams competing in a match while needing to be queued up for another match.

It is possible that we just didn't go through enough iterations to ensure that we didn't have duplication. It also didn't help that we had to generate the match schedule three times because of teams being initially on the list, then not showing up, then finally showing up during opening ceremony. We didn't have enough time to go through the list and check for duplicate matchups. Some of those issues may have contributed to those other events having similar duplicate matchups.
Here is a suggestion for whomever is listening:
Instead of putting the information about match spacing's relationship to duplicated encounters in a manual, and then apparently leaving it up to a harried user's eyeballs and brain to scan the freshly created match listing for "problems"; why not have the software display/print out some statistics (along with each match list it generates) that identify the extent to which those problems actually exist in the matches???

In addition to creating the match list, the software should report any/all things in that match list that a human should assess before that human actually uses the list..... I give myself this sort of help in the Excel spreadsheet that I use.

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