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But know that we know all the 144 fixtures would you be able to write a code to allocate those in the 8 matchdays following the requirements ? And then also try to see if a solution exists where we get at least one big match per matchday ? Yes, I'm planning to do it, just haven't got around to it ...

Let me speculate. -) teams from Lisbon and Milan ( obviously ) are always split in home and away but not teams from Madrid , any reason why ? Sporting & Benfica stadiums are only 2km apart, whereas Chamartín & Metropolitano are 7.5km apart. Given that Lisbon is much smaller than Madrid, flooding ...

So the final fixtures for the UCL were published on Saturday , i spent some time looking at those and here are some random thoughts : -) teams from Lisbon and Milan ( obviously ) are always split in home and away but not teams from Madrid , any reason why ? -) big matches involving 2 teams from pot ...

I made a comparison of the ranking of different teams In all 3 competitions by looking at different methods : https://x.com/lorenzo_carli83/status/1829074329474142266?s=46&t=XUFyU5_YPFqQozHStQZspA https://x.com/lorenzo_carli83/status/1830588775287886006?s=46&t=XUFyU5_YPFqQozHStQZspA https://x.com ...

Beside the actual result of the draw , what do you all think about it ? From my side it felt very much “ soulless “ and didn’t give me any of the emotions and excitement of the previous one. I felt I barely had time to digest the fixtures , plus having a computer performing the drawing as a black box ...

https://julienguyon.pythonanywhere.com/uefa_app/

If you want to play with a simulator for the Champions League stage. There is also a paper explaining all formalities and also pros and cons of performing the draw this way compared to using a pre-determined schedule

I actually wonder if restrictions related to fixtures (home/away in first 2 and last 2 matches ) , no more than 2 consecutive home /away matches , plus a few others , make compiling the match day calendar always possibile given the set of 144 matches . Or if the computer needs to rake those ...

Drawing paires is very time consuming . We should remember how the draw worked with the old stystem : a team was drawn , then possibile groups were checked , and the team was allocated to the first possible one . Here instead of groups you can easily have a pre-determined match calendar ( fulfilling ...

We still do not have any info from Uefa regarding the actual draw procedure. But As mentioned in my previous post this year the problem is much more complex. One thing to reflect upon: in the past seasons Uefa was drawing the groups, but not the calendar order . As a matter of fact it took Uefa 2 ...

Yeah, something's going on with ClubElo.com at the moment. The only team showing for Poland is Wisla for example, and at an inflated Elo of 1,557. Hope they fix it soon! When you take into account all 194 clubs participating in the qualifiers this season the Clubelo currently do not have a rating ...

For what it's worth, I asked ChatGPT to create a fixture schedule but it isn't able to when you add all the required constraints. I also used ChatGPT but due to the complexity of the problem it took me several attempts to come up with a valid result. You also need to be very detailed with all ...

Oh wow, I didn't realize that the spreadsheet would be updated based on the draws. I see now that the predicted non-qualified seeded teams of the first round in UCL are beaten by the DRAWN unseeded teams and they in turn get their coefficient for the next round. That's impressive work! :applause: I ...

Since the season 2009/2010, including all European competitions and discarding two-legged ties where stronger teams were set to play return match at home (first KO round after group stage), we had 2961 ties where the home/away order was randomly drawn. With away goal rule: 2261 ties 150 went to ...

After a lot of trials I finally managed to generate the 144 fixtures split among the 8 matchdays . In general it doesn’t seem possibile to strictly fullfill all requirements regarding calendar order . This is why Uefa in the regulations also says “ in principle “ . It looks like we can’t guarantee a ...

After a lot of trials I finally managed to generate the 144 fixtures split among the 8 matchdays . In general it doesn’t seem possibile to strictly fullfill all requirements regarding calendar order . This is why Uefa in the regulations also says “ in principle “ . It looks like we can’t guarantee a ...