Archimedes 2013!!!

[Jimmy Cao]

Originally Posted by efoote868

If I understand the original model,

For each team
  For each match
    Add opponents ranks to current team's difficulty of schedule
    Subtract alliance ranks from current team's difficulty of schedule

Rank team's difficulty of schedule in ascending order.

In this model,

For each team
  Rerank teams without current team
  For each match
    Add opponents ranks to current team's difficulty of schedule
    Subtract alliance ranks from current team's difficulty of schedule

Rank team's difficulty of schedule in ascending order.

Yes, this is correct. However it's still important to realize that this approach has numerous shortcomings.

As an extreme, place the #1, 2, and 3 teams against #97, 98, 99.
The #1, 2, 3 teams would each get a huge boost to their result, making it seem like an easier schedule, whereas #97, 98, and 99 seem to have very hard schedules. But this is only for 1 match, and this 1 match will have a disproportional impact on the final ranking (it might account for well over half the "points", while it only accounts for 1/12 of the final seeding).