Suggestion to improve the alliance choosing program

[StevenB]

Originally Posted by Bongle

It does appear that lower-numbered teams had lower-numbered partners. I'm fairly sure that unless I have a bug, this indicates that higher-numbered teams indeed don't get to play with lower-numbered teams as often as randomness would suggest, which implies that the match-making algorithm is not blind to team numbers like I would think it should be.

I don't think this is the case. As Gary pointed out,

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

Some regionals have very low team numbers, with only a few rookies (Detroit). Some have very high team numbers, mostly rookies (Hawaii, Minnesota, Oklahoma).

It might be best to do this on a regional-by-regional basis, and see what you get. For example, the average team number at OKC was 2077. Almost everyone had a high team number, and thus their partners also had high numbers.