Match scheduling algorithm and team numbers

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by The Lucas

Looking at regional schedules, I would guess the software already randomize the team list (don't you agree?) Remember we are playing with an evaluation version of the scheduler algorithm with no GUI or anything, not the actual software used by the scorekeeper. Hopefully they don't put them in OPR order (which looks like what you did) since that would lead to conspiracy theories.

I think the software should randomize the list, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't. For Chesapeake, the average team number that 7 (the lowest number team) faced was 716, and the average team number that 2546 faced was 1831.

Originally Posted by The Lucas

I think this is the real prob is the default MMS is too high and that is what is typically used (I think it was used at FLR and Philly). If you have to play a single team (out of 86) twice (in 7 matches) that is unacceptable and can heavily skew the seedings (which are very imperfect to begin with). Hopefully the scorekeepers will tweak the MMS until there are no repeats.

using a MMS of 10 gives an almost perfect schedule for the championship (good enough to fool the person looking at the statistics). It does not fix the problem with the initial team list, however. You need to go down much further to fix it, which is very unlikely to happen.