The actuel pickem system is trash, you could select the 4 best absolute team, and still not have all the point because of the draw. (Because even if A will always beat B in 100% in case, B will beat C in 100% of case etc etc etc, 4th best team can end after 5th team)
What we should have for a swiss with 8 team is :
- Pick top 3 that will pass anyway
- Pick 2 team that will pass depending on the draw
- Pick 3 team that will not pass.
Even with the worst draw, we are sure the 3 best team pass and the 3 worst team dont pass, for the team 4 and 5 it depend of the draw
it's kinda what happened in 2024 Masters 2 :
Where based only on transitivity on Swiss and only swiss you have :
- top 3 : G2 > TH with GEN could be anywhere before after or between those 2 since they didn't play against G2 and TH in Swiss
- 4th : FPX --> since FPX only loose top 3 (GEN and TH) and beat FUT, and didn't has loose against any team of bottom 4
- 5th : FUT --> since FUT loose against FPX and didn't beat any team in top 4 (FUT is before DRG and LEV because they beat them, and before T1 because they beat LEV that beat them)
- bottom 3 : LEV > T1 with DRG could be anywhere before after or between those 2 since they didn't play against them in swiss
So a player that have the correct poweranking picking FPX over FUT, will lose point even if they were right.
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