[Teams qualifying twice getting another seed]

Em 08/02/2023 em 04:28, themodelcitizen disse:

Isn't there a box somewhere like "do not schedule if not enough teams" and "add history if not enough teams". Then you could just use get last winner/get last runner up/get last third place team instead of directly qualifying. Mind you the qualifying is cleaner and there's probably a way to do it that way

I tried messing around with these options but I could not get what I wanted. Anyways I am happy with the results for the time being, though I might work on it later.

By the way, I came across another problem now. I want to correct the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana dates as they do not align with each other as they should. I extracted the .xml files for each and edited them separately, adjusting the fixture dates so they are correct. However, when testing in the editor, the fixtures are still played on the old dates. It feels like they are hardcoded. Do you know what causes this, or what can be done? I am going to test them in game now, I will update here if it works.

EDIT: the Libertadores and Sudamericana new dates are working in game. I guess it is just a bug in the editor.

[Teams qualifying twice getting another seed]

I am currently revamping the FIFA Club World Cup to a 16-team quadrennial format. UEFA and CONMEBOL would both qualify four teams—their last four champions—while the other four confederations shall qualify two each. These two teams would be chosen among the last four continental champions in a qualifier taking place some months before the main competition. If the respective champions league has four different champions, they would play a single-leg round-robin hosted by one of the teams. However, if there are three different champions (meaning a team has won twice), I'd like to said team be qualified directly to the World Cup. I suppose I can work this out if this team gets to the qualifier competition having a different seed, but I do not know how to do this. Could anybody shed some light on this issue? Thanks.

[Dynamic relegation thread]

I'm working with a file of the Brazilian league that has four national divisions followed by state divisions. The fourth division is a group competition of 64 teams split into 4 groups of 16, whereas the fifth division is a parent competition that contains 27 divisions (one for each Brazilian state). The champions and some runner-ups of these 27 divisions play a reduced tournament featuring 39 teams (preliminary stage with 14 teams followed by a group stage with 32), where the best 8 are promoted. How can I work out this system using dynamic relegation? The eight relegated teams from the fourth division shall be allocated to their respective state division on the fifth level of the pyramid. Worth to note, the state divisions and the promotion tournament are already working, but without any promotion or relegation.

[Problem with promotion playoff seeding]

Okay, I figured it out. I checked the default rules of the Copa América, that starting from 2020 will have a pairing similar to the one I tried to achieve (four teams coming from each of two groups). I copied the fixed draw setting that was 0,6,3,5,4,2,7,1 and it worked. I don't why it is like that as I thought the game first fetched the teams from one group (0,1,2,3) and then the teams from the other (4,5,6,7), but it seems it is not like that, or I am missing something. Anyway, my problem is solved and everything is right with my file.

[Problem with promotion playoff seeding]

I am revamping the Brazilian pyramid, however, I came across an annoying problem in the third division. It is comprised by two groups of sixteen teams each, where the top two of each group advance to the championship playoff, which is functioning well. The next four teams from each group advance to the promotion playoffs, where the third placed team from each group would face the sixth placed team and the fourths faced the fifths. However, I couldn't make the teams face each other this way no matter what I tried. I first tried using fixed draw + team order setting with 0,7,3,4,1,6,2,5 but with no success. I tweaked this order a bit a few times and tried another settings but the pairings were always different.

A more detailed explanation of the format is the following:

Championship playoff:

-1st from group A x 2nd from group B

-1st from group B x 2nd from group A

Winners advance to the final and are promoted. Both semifinal and final rounds are played over two legs.

 

Promotion playoffs (the part I'm having trouble with):

-3rd from group A x 6th from group B

-4th from group B x 5th from group A

-3rd from group B x 6th from group A

-4th from group A x 5th from group B

These eight play two rounds (the first is single-legged and the second two-legged) and the remaining two play the championship playoff semifinal losers for the last two promotion spots.

Worth to note, the group stage is stage 0, the championship playoff is stage 1 and the promotion playoff is stage 2.

Thanks in advance.