"New" 2nd Week Scheduling Algorithm

[rachal]

Originally Posted by Wayne C.

My gripe with the first week schedule was not playing with rookies. Rather it was playing the same teams 5 times over.

Here are my team's (1072) qualifying matches for LA (there were 52 teams present):
Allies
597, 1722
599, 1669
702, 1759
399, 2174
597, 1836
702, 2174
254, 1702
606, 1759
691, 1855

Opponents
599, 1138, 1759
687, 812, 1644
4, 1722, 1197
330, 1438, 2272
294, 1266, 2178
599, 1266, 1669
399, 980, 2029
330, 867, 1669
330, 968, 2178

We had nine matches and interacted with a total of 31 teams, many of them multiple times. Getting paired with a few teams multiple times, sure that happens. But we were allied with four teams twice, played against four teams twice, and played against 330 three times. I still had fun, but it seemed repetitive after a while.

Originally Posted by Ben Mitchell

Personally I don't think that team pairings should be made with a particular algorithm - pure randomization works for me.

Same here. Complete randomization will let teams demonstrate their capabilities much more accurately (at least relative to each other), since lucky and unlucky alliances will balance out on average.