Note that in the unlikely event we find out EA is putting out a full World Cup game with full qualifying and every country, I'll abandon this and use WC22 to do a bracket as I did back in 2015-2107
https://forums.operationsports.com/f...ket-style.html
I don't expect that to happen though, so I'll return to the last time they made a good decision and use the WC14 game.
This one however...the losers advance. I've re-made the bracket with reversed seeds. Germany is now the 203 seed. Anguilla is the 1 seed. The top 53 are so bad we don't even need to see them in the first round. They'll get a bye into the 2nd round. It will be a home and home just as the other was, probably until we're down to the last 8 or so when we'll move them to Brazil for all the pageantry and attention they deserve.
There will be no rhyme or reason this time to decide which team I play with in which order or who will be home first and second. It will be randomly decided for each matchup. In the previous iteration, I would occasionally use a B team in the second leg for people who had a comfortable lead. I won't do that this time. Everyone puts their best team out on the field. I'll be doing some editing to get everyone's best starting 11 together based on the game's ratings, while keeping people in their relatively similar positions and each country to their chosen default formation.
Two yellows total gets a suspension. I don't get many yellow cards in this game so it may never even happen. Reds will also get a suspension. Anyone who is forced to leave a game injured in the first leg will be assumed to miss the second leg. An injury in the second leg won't result in a missed game as there would realistically be ample time in between rounds to recover in most cases.
Road goals will be used to break a tie in aggregate until the final 8 get to Brazil. Once it is a neutral field, then there will be no more road goals. If I must go to extra time after the 2nd leg but the game didn't end in a draw, I'll begin a 3rd game with the ending lineups for game 2 which will be significantly shortened to reflect just a 30-minute game and then it'll go to penalty kicks if no goals are scored in the short extra time. Golden Goals will apply. The 30 minute extra time won't be finished if not necessary. If each leg ends in a draw, I can simply continue the second leg into extra time.
https://forums.operationsports.com/f...ket-style.html
I don't expect that to happen though, so I'll return to the last time they made a good decision and use the WC14 game.
This one however...the losers advance. I've re-made the bracket with reversed seeds. Germany is now the 203 seed. Anguilla is the 1 seed. The top 53 are so bad we don't even need to see them in the first round. They'll get a bye into the 2nd round. It will be a home and home just as the other was, probably until we're down to the last 8 or so when we'll move them to Brazil for all the pageantry and attention they deserve.
There will be no rhyme or reason this time to decide which team I play with in which order or who will be home first and second. It will be randomly decided for each matchup. In the previous iteration, I would occasionally use a B team in the second leg for people who had a comfortable lead. I won't do that this time. Everyone puts their best team out on the field. I'll be doing some editing to get everyone's best starting 11 together based on the game's ratings, while keeping people in their relatively similar positions and each country to their chosen default formation.
Two yellows total gets a suspension. I don't get many yellow cards in this game so it may never even happen. Reds will also get a suspension. Anyone who is forced to leave a game injured in the first leg will be assumed to miss the second leg. An injury in the second leg won't result in a missed game as there would realistically be ample time in between rounds to recover in most cases.
Road goals will be used to break a tie in aggregate until the final 8 get to Brazil. Once it is a neutral field, then there will be no more road goals. If I must go to extra time after the 2nd leg but the game didn't end in a draw, I'll begin a 3rd game with the ending lineups for game 2 which will be significantly shortened to reflect just a 30-minute game and then it'll go to penalty kicks if no goals are scored in the short extra time. Golden Goals will apply. The 30 minute extra time won't be finished if not necessary. If each leg ends in a draw, I can simply continue the second leg into extra time.
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