I was just commenting on the fact that @Edi_K was asking if Lion prefers the company of men, and a few days later he no longer needs to ask because he knows the answer.
Not sure a 5 yo would understand this, but I’ve tried to simplify it as much as possible.
1)It’s called a Swiss format. It’s commonly used in chess where you have a large group of participants but want to maintain a league format without having each contestant play every other contestant...
Did it though?
Interesting fixtures I see:
Real vs Dortmund
Real vs Milan
Man City vs Inter
Bayern vs PSG
PSG vs Man City
PSG vs Atletico
Liverpool vs Real
Liverpool vs Leverkusen
Inter vs Arsenal
Dortmund vs Barca
Barcelona vs Bayern
Leverkusen vs Inter
Leverkusen vs Milan
Atletico vs...
Yeah definitely. Every team has a different set of fixtures. So essentially there are 36 such ‘groups’. But every team is part of 8 of these fixture lists, so it’s hard to say how many from each set will finish in the top 8.
You have a point.
But we also had the best goalie, midfielders and defenders between 2012-15 and then best goalie, defenders and attackers from 2015-2020 and won all the league titles.