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In response to
"I have no strong preferences, so I'll go with what others determine."
by
ReluctantCynic
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Here's a simple round-robin system for an odd number of participants.
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Assign numbers 1, 2, ...., N to each team. It matters not who's who.
Write out the numbers in the form of a circle (rather than a line for reasons that will be clear in a moment).
Each team is responsible for sending a scrimmage request to the next (N-1)/2 teams on the circle. So, in the case of 5 teams, team 1 will send requests to 2 and 3, team 2 will send requests to 3 and 4, and so on, wrapping around to team 5 sending requests to 1 and 2. (Hence the circle.)
In this way, everyone plays everyone once with an even distribution of pseudo credits used.
This doesn't quite work with an even number but accommodations can be made.
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