Cup Seedings

[terpkristin]

Stolen from the USA Conference, this is how you figure out your current "rank" in the cup:

If you're the away team: Take your match ID and subtract the Wizards match ID and add 1.

If you're the home team: Subtract Wizards match ID from your match ID and then subtract that number from the number of teams left.
So home seed = # teams left - (your match ID - Wizards match ID)

Note, if Wizards gets eliminated you use the match ID of the team that finished the highest in the ML last year.

Now, a stupid question: how do you find out the number of teams left? I never remember how many teams STARTED in the cup, so I can't back it out...
~tk

[terpkristin]

Dola,
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Nevermind there are 8192 teams in the Cup in the US. Just bothered to look it up. :)

~tk

[saintjo]

if you go to USA/Cup on the left side menu in hattrick it give you the number of teams in each division left in the cup (and i think total left in the cup)

[Mr. Wednesday]

8192->4096->2048->1024->512->256->128->64->32->16->8->4->2->1

[YoSoySean]

267? Crap, I won't be getting a home match for a while :P

[Masked]

155 - almost certainly won't last long enough for a home match

[YoSoySean]

Eh. I'm down 2-0 and missed 3 chances already. I'll be lucky to make round 5.

[thealmighty]

I'm ahead but lost possession in first half (granted only 51%).

[Alf]

I am ranked 72 entering round 5, at least 3 rounds till I potentially play a home game.

[sterlingice]

Let's see- the Wizards game is 23145204
I'm on the road and my game is 23145423

So that's a difference of 219 plus 1 equals seed 220.

That can't be right. In the series above me there are 8 + 32 + 128 teams. Hm... I guess that's possible since I finished 2nd last season.

SI

[KevinNU7]

I'm #157 for Round 6

[Masked]

I'm 114 for round 6 and missed a home game by 14 places. Damn all you teams that pulled cupsets.

[saintjo]

i think im 235. sorry masked. im one of those cupset teams you arent so happy with ;)

[sterlingice]

Ok, so there's 256 teams left now.

The Wizards game is 23246639
I've got my first home game in 4 season and my game is 23246735

So home seed = # teams left - (your match ID - Wizards match ID)
256 - (23246735-23246639) = 256 - 96 = Seed #160 :D

SI