I don't really know how to best explain this, but essentially I'm trying to recreate a peculiar league setup. I found a similar one in the same nation that, eventually, I got working - but this one has me stumped.
16 teams split into 2 groups of 8; the top 6 (3 from each) qualify for a championship group. The other 10 play each other, for no particular reason as far as I can tell. Another league did similar, but it was groups of 8, staying as groups of 8 (top 4 from each group in one, etc).
What I now cannot get to work is having a group of 6 and a group of 10 as my second stage. The tournament rules show the top 3 from each group qualifying for one group, then the bottom 5 for another, but overall the second stage is showing 14 matches for everyone, which is presumably where the issue lies. When I tried removing the overall group requirement of 2 rounds, instead applying this to each group individually, it started having an issue with the number of fixtures in the first stage.
The league points etc all carry over to the second stage, so could this also be causing an issue? I'm a bit stumped, when I seemingly managed to get the very similar setup to work. Are uneven groups even possible, or would I need to reconfigure it to be leagues?