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What happens when a season ends? Does a new one start immediately, or does something else happen first?
T-jankins9522 wrote:
What happens when a season ends? Does a new one start immediately, or does something else happen first?
Yes, a new one starts immediately. The last few days of the month are playoff games, and the last day of the month is the final game. Then the 1st of the next month starts the new season. So your last day to play any season 3 puzzles you still want to play is Sep 30th. Season 4 starts Oct 1st.
Also, do you decide which team wins? Or is that also generated by the program?
T-jankins9522 wrote:
Also, do you decide which team wins? Or is that also generated by the program?
That's all generated by the program. It runs a very simple simulation to figure out who scores each goal in each match, so we don't know who's going to win this season either!
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otrain13 wrote:
SuryaVS wrote:
Agreed, amazing. I played for a few days, forgot to respond but very good! Also how do you decide which team beats which team? Bad question, I know but I’ll ask
Thanks! At the start of a season we generate a big list of all the matches so that each team plays an equal number of games, and no one play the same team twice. Then each day, we run some very light simulation code that basically decides first whether it's a 2- or 3-goal match, and then decides which team scored which goal and when during the game. That information then gets passed into the puzzle generator, which generates a puzzle for each goal in the game soccer tipster, and from that we can generate stats about who scored and assisted. In short: it's much more complicated than it needs to be, in the service of making things feel slightly more consistent/realistic.
I only missed it yesterday because I couldn’t find a solution shorter than 8 moves!
