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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/Updated Alliance Pairing Algorithm

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Originally Posted by mtaman02 View Post
You know whats kinda funny about all this, FTA and the Scoring table can talk live w/ other fields operating that week to ask for help in general. While the FTA don't touch the score table during competition, I'm fairly certain they are trained how to operate the software since they have to sit and make sure the matches generated are correct.

I know our FTA guy sat there w/ a book, laptop and something to pull his hair out. Although unlike my many other FTA friends he actually was running numbers down to the decimal to make sure all was right . They were working real hard on thursday to get er done and even help up a match or 2 in the process. I don't see why they can't just calculate the schedule and have it run in the back round that way it doesn't delay the match.... anyways

LI's pairing algorithm wasn't too bad... may have a couple of repeats but wasn't noticeable at all. Seemed fairly random in LI.
Running the scoring system is part of FTA training. Partly so we know how it works if something goes wrong and partly so the Scorer can take a break without shutting down the field.

The schedule generating algorithm makes something like 5 milliion schedules and compares them against each other accoring to various criteria. The processor is pretty well maxed out while this is going on. We wouldn't want it to miss scores because it was too busy doing something else now woud we?
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