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  • Re: EPL Soph - suggestions?

    From MH@21:1/5 to anders t on Tue Jul 22 08:08:19 2025
    On 2025-07-22 07:51, anders t wrote:
    So 2024-25 we had the brackets:

    1, 2-4, 5-7, 8-16, 17, 18-20

    Brackets 1 and 18-20 are untouchable and stays.

    Bracket 17 is to find the "last non-loser" and I'm very reluctant to
    removing that one.

    But suggestions for dividing places 2-16? Of course especially regarding
    UEFA cups 26/27 qualification.



    hmm. 5th place has a pretty fair chance of making the CL, so maybe
    separate it from 6 and 7 ?

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  • From anders t@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 22 16:51:00 2025
    So 2024-25 we had the brackets:

    1, 2-4, 5-7, 8-16, 17, 18-20

    Brackets 1 and 18-20 are untouchable and stays.

    Bracket 17 is to find the "last non-loser" and I'm very reluctant to
    removing that one.

    But suggestions for dividing places 2-16? Of course especially regarding
    UEFA cups 26/27 qualification.


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  • From anders t@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 25 13:58:21 2025
    Quoting MH in rec.sport.soccer:
    On 2025-07-22 07:51, anders t wrote:
    So 2024-25 we had the brackets:

    1, 2-4, 5-7, 8-16, 17, 18-20

    Brackets 1 and 18-20 are untouchable and stays.

    Bracket 17 is to find the "last non-loser" and I'm very reluctant to
    removing that one.

    But suggestions for dividing places 2-16? Of course especially regarding
    UEFA cups 26/27 qualification.



    hmm. 5th place has a pretty fair chance of making the CL, so maybe
    separate it from 6 and 7 ?

    OK adding 5, scrapping 17, reintroducing mid table split.

    How about...

    1
    2-4
    5
    6-7
    8-12
    13-17
    18-20

    ?


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  • From Werner Pichler@21:1/5 to anders t on Fri Jul 25 13:38:53 2025
    anders t <[email protected]> wrote:
    Quoting MH in rec.sport.soccer:
    On 2025-07-22 07:51, anders t wrote:
    So 2024-25 we had the brackets:

    1, 2-4, 5-7, 8-16, 17, 18-20

    Brackets 1 and 18-20 are untouchable and stays.

    Bracket 17 is to find the "last non-loser" and I'm very reluctant to
    removing that one.

    But suggestions for dividing places 2-16? Of course especially regarding >>> UEFA cups 26/27 qualification.



    hmm. 5th place has a pretty fair chance of making the CL, so maybe
    separate it from 6 and 7 ?

    OK adding 5, scrapping 17, reintroducing mid table split.

    How about...

    1
    2-4
    5
    6-7
    8-12
    13-17
    18-20

    ?

    Sounds good. The general idea behind picking #17
    was sound, but that spot is also more random than
    the others - a team free from relegation worries
    before the last matchday won’t care if they end up
    there in the final table.


    Ciao,
    Werner

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  • From anders t@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 2 11:35:05 2025
    The spreadsheet is done (bar a last checking for errors), but I have
    problems with my website account. The ISPs first line support acknowledges
    that it seems like I have done everything right from my end, and they have escalated to the senior support to find out why it still doesn't work.

    I can, meanwhile, confirm the brackets (columns) to be
    1
    2-4
    5
    6-7
    8-12
    13-17
    18-20

    And the order of the teams (rows):
    Arsenal
    Aston Villa
    Bournemouth
    Brentford
    Brighton
    Burnley
    Chelsea
    Crystal P
    Everton
    Fulham
    Leeds
    Liverpool
    Man City
    Man United
    Newcastle
    Nottingham
    Sunderland
    Tottenham
    West Ham
    Wolverhampton

    So you can start creating the matrix for easy cut'n'paste into the form
    when it gets available for download, if you like.

    Max in a cell is 0.9994 and min is 0.0001.


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