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We should just randomize them at this point, it's hard to split 20 teams up into 4 groups and still make sure they are all even. Literally any of those teams can beat each other.

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47 minutes ago, Nephenzy said:

Good work, it's not important wether your team seed 1, 10, 20 or not at all... what's important is that all of these teams or most of them end up in the same group, many of them will for sure end up in the same group anyway.

Why would you want them to end up in the same group? Or is it a typo?

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I tried to take a more analytical approach like @tokFan earlier and took screenshots of the OVERALL 6vs6 LEADERBOARDS as of December 2nd, 4:17 p.m. GMT +1.

I created an Excel sheet with 38 teams which are in the Top 100 EA leaderboards and registered for this tournament. What I did then was create a Points per game average for all of these teams. I attached the file below.

Top 20 results (only >100 games played):

Top 20 results (all games):

Not sure if we should count teams with ~40 or ~60 games due to easier opponents in lower divisions, but that's up to @Kenu I guess.

Let me know what you think about this!

 

6vs6 overall 021215.xlsx

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9 minutes ago, Billy44205 said:

Why? Can you accurately explain to me why that would happen? 

Past EHL tournaments on Consolehockey had a history of teams not finishing their games because they were hopelessly inferior to most of the other participants. Now when I take a look at the list of registered teams, I see quite a few names I have never heard or played before. It should be everyone's desire to create a tournament where newcomers can actually compete, because we will need them to keep a community like NHLGamer going. We have seen the demise of Consolehockey, and they failed at keeping known teams and gaining interest of new teams out there. I really want this website to expand to something more 'stable' than that.

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13 minutes ago, Smoky_d_83 said:

Just randomize for the first touney, thats it

If you want to have a few teams leave the tournament early on, then that is certainly a very good idea.

I will compile my own list later.

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@Kenu Top 20 will be problematic as there will be a lot of different opinions about the last couple of teams to fit on the list. Maybe reduce it to 16 or 12 instead?

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@Kenu Will those 4 groups be drawn live by the way? I think that would be one important step to avoid complaints about groups being unfair (which they will inevitably be in this first tournament)

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I think we could start a week earlier, that's 3 days to setup your team then. Should be enough time for everyone.

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Just a reckless imagination on my side:

I've heard before there are ways to 'extract' information from images if the pattern of said image stays the same. Now when you take a screenshot of the end result, all numbers (e.g. goals, shots on goal...) are in the same position each and every time. Wouldn't it be possible to create a tool that allows you to upload that screenshot, so these stats can be extracted and filled into the game report automatically?

I'm quite sure this requires a ton of work and more advanced programming skills, though.

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12 hours ago, Kenu said:

While it might feel useless, it opens up a whole new world of analysis. What if we could tell you when your team takes the most penalties, how your penalty kill is working and if there's a certain time-frame when things are going worse than others? We're not quite there yet with the analysis part, but by collecting the relevant data, we are able to do a bunch of cool stats in the future.

Sounds as ambitious as I hoped this project would be. Great ideas right there.

And that's why I hope you make us record more stats than Consolehockey did. It's not like anyone will complain if submitting a result takes 8 instead of 5 minutes.