League draw already happened?

[talisman]

I have always had a suspicion that, although they have previously only been revealed after the Maintenance on the morning of Day 3, that the League draws were made in the Season reset before Day 1.

This is so that the number of teams required to promote (including those from Position 9) would be known in order that the Cup, Champions League (and now Super League) draws can be made of the appropriate Level/Quality teams.

At the moment, I can't see a League Table or any League matches as I haven't yet played the 2nd Leg Cup match - and I probably won't see those after that match as I have Champions League Group matches in my Fixtures list.

[jcohen42]

I have always had a suspicion that, although they have previously only been revealed after the Maintenance on the morning of Day 3, that the League draws were made in the Season reset before Day 1.

This is so that the number of teams required to promote (including those from Position 9) would be known in order that the Cup, Champions League (and now Super League) draws can be made of the appropriate Level/Quality teams.

At the moment, I can't see a League Table or any League matches as I haven't yet played the 2nd Leg Cup match - and I probably won't see those after that match as I have Champions League Group matches in my Fixtures list.

I suspect you may be right; otherwise it would make no sense for the system to have determined so many games to appear for each manager without having done the entire draw.

From a computer perspective, why would you figure out the first league games for some managers, and then fit the draws around those? That would require many more iterations within the program to determine who has to play who, when, and then which combinations of teams have to go together in order to get groups of 14. On the flip side, if the computer can just collect chunks of 14 teams, and then schedule fixtures for those teams, no extra iterations are required, and the computer can program the schedule a lot more efficiently. Plus, then the matter of which game is next for each manager is trivial; it's just whatever is next in the computer program.

Perhaps they cannot show league tables because prizes have not been determined, or something else minor. However, I am a believer in talisman's theory that the league draw occurs during maintenance.

[talisman]

At the moment, I can't see a League Table or any League matches as I haven't yet played the 2nd Leg Cup match - and I probably won't see those after that match as I have Champions League Group matches in my Fixtures list.

OK, so I was wrong...



All I can say is that this is not what happened last season...