i know there's a lot of the same questions out there. This is kind of more specific for this one.
First of all this is all build in PHP. I currently can create the first round but i seem to be having some problems with the ordering and figuring out the algorithm for the placements.
Say if we have 16 players the first round will look like this
1
16
9
8
5
12
13
4
3
14
11
6
7
10
15
2
I can't seem to figure out the algorithm for this thing. So far i make two arrays 1 with the players in ranking order 1 with the number of players and i'm just taking the first, last from the players match them. I need to match this order :/
There are a lot of ways to do this. Consider this as an example:
First create your seed tournament.
$playoff_seed = range(1, 16);
$matchups = array();
// Then get each end of the elements
$x = 0;
while(count($playoff_seed) > 0) {
$matchups[$x][] = array_shift($playoff_seed);
$matchups[$x][] = array_pop($playoff_seed);
$x++;
}
print_r($playoff_seed);