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Originally Posted by Jared341
The order doesn't seem to have anything obvious to do with team number, location, team name, or order of registration (yes, I checked by looking at the divisions of the last few teams that were added to the list this morning and yesterday  ).
So it's either random, or generated by some suitably complex but deterministic function from whose obfuscated nature Dave is undoubtedly gleaning pleasure.  |
To me it looks like what you would get if you shuffled 4 decks (or suites) of 87 cards into each other once. It is not even close to purely random, the team numbers clump together far too much (Curie has 6 teams in a row from 236-271). It would be simple to implement, just make a program that makes 4 lists and inserts a specified number of "cuts" (to another list). Then take the resulting order (single list) of divisions and apply it to number ordered list of teams.