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I guess I'm a lucky bastard. All games at home. But I thought the bigger stadium (or at least the biggest profit team), would receive the game. I think that makes sense. So both teams can benefit from it (even if one walks out). I would like to play a First League team, but if it is on my home, how can I benefit from it? I will surely lose, and I won't have a decent profit? Doesn't make much sense to me.

I've played 14 cups games. Only 3 home game.

i completely support the random factor regarding the cup draw. As an ex-hattrick player, I found the cup in that game to be monotonous and boring until the last few rounds (and I actually won a cup in hattrick (same team name)) . Buzzerbeater's system keeps me on my toes and aware of the cup draw each week.

fair enough. it is irritating to see bots advance at the cost of real people who care enough to play the game.

I don't fully understand your suggestion, but how about this compromise:

only 2 pots: pot 1= active user
pot 2 = bot

Users (at random) drawn against bots until one of the pots is exhausted. This would avoid those irritatingly unnecessary bot vs. bot matches, and also randomly benefit users who have teams better than bot level.

But i am not a programmer. I don't even know if this is possible.

take a look at my schedule... ok so some are PL but my recent run is unbelievable... if i ever get the opposite in the future then $$$$$$ here we come!

I agree with you that the current system is counter productive and I would even say that it is worse that the Hattricks system. If we look at the Swedish league their are at least three teams left that are left in the last 16 based on (almost) pure luck. I actually had a pretty descent draw my self, not particularly lucky nor unlucky, but still the complete randomness of the drawing makes me feel that I actually have not been accopmplished anything by reaching this stage: Advacing in the cup should feel as an achievement and not as luck!

The problem with the Hattrick system is that you are not really rewarded if you accomplish something big (i.e. if you beat a higher ranked team), as you will end up meeting yet another top rank team regardless of your achievement. Therefore the system you propose is far better than both Hattricks and BBs current system.

With that said I actually prefer the classical seeded drawing that is used in most sports today. I.e. you seed the teams and then make a drawing with a complete playoff three based on this. Then you will get rewarded for accomplishments, while "pure luck" will be minimized.

As an example if someone upsets Roger Federrer in the first round of Wimbledon he will (in some sense) benefit from this as his next oponent will most likely not be someone like Nadal, in fact Nadal will most probably await in the final if that "someone" manages to advance there too.

As long as the cup draw is completely random, I personally think that the BBs should remove the home court advantage.

I agree with you on this. It's just not fair that some teams have several home games in a row, whereas others are away all the time. All teams should have the same chances in the cup.

PS: I lost against a bot in the first round ... I guess I shouldn't have TIEed.