Suggestion to improve the alliance choosing program

[GaryVoshol]

Kimberly may have a point - they got a really unlucky schedule at GLR. In their first 4 matches, they were paired with another rookie. They were paired with a "powerhouse" veteran team just once, 469 - and in that match they came up against 494 and 67.

To contrast, I looked at Rush's schedule (lowest team number at GLR). They saw rookies on the field only twice - in the same match, one on each alliance. 33 played with a rookie once, never against one.

503, in the middle of the list of team numbers, played with and against rookies and very low-number veterans in many of their matches. 573 had a similar schedule.

2676, the highest team number at GLR, played with and against rookies in most of their schedule.

I looked at the West Michgan schedule and saw a similar clustering of rookie teams, and again of low-number teams.

We've seen that the "maximize time between matches" constraint often results in a team playing with another team in one match and against them the following. That's not unreasonable.

Does the schedule algorithm shuffle the teams before slotting them into the schedule? Or does it start in numeric order? As we saw last year, strict team order doesn't equate to team strength. But did the schedule inadvertently create semi-tiers?