@maple_shaft - At end if one team is still out they get a bye. To fix corner cases, treat bye as a team, keep track of who it played, and match it as soon as possible before other teams. Also, do divisional play first so that teams who keep being the odd team out aren't likely to play non-divisional teams too often. In rare cases, 2 teams may meet each more often than other teams in the league meet each other but it's random so deal with it. This algorithm should be O(n).

@maple_shaft - Er, maybe not O(n), when you find the teams that have played you the least that's got to make it at least nLog(n)

Haven't been on in a while... what's going on around Programmers? Anything I missed?

@mapple_shaft, true, it was a sign of disagreement. Please reconsider reviewing the question.

@mapple_shaft, would you think like that by just removing some characters from a post? "or thought that by removing the link it would un-close his question? lol". I find this rather offensive, unless it is what you would think in such a case.

@cprogcr Please don't remove the automatically inserted duplicate link. If you disagree with the closure, you should edit your question and make it crystal clear how it's not a duplicate and then either flag it for moderation attention and ask for it to be re-opened or post a question on Meta.

@cprogcr I've unlocked the question now, but next time how about we skip the drama? We have oh so many ways of contesting/discussing a closure, and you picked the absolutely worst one...

@psr Thanks for your additional thoughts... it seems my situation doesn't quite need be that complicated.

> 4 of the 200 games will be divisional, 196 with the other division.

I am okay with this

I am also okay with two teams perhaps facing each other more than once, but this should be a fringe case.

@cprogcr I didn't mean to offend, this was just the first time I had to lock a post because the author kept rolling back a system edit. I couldn't figure out why you would do this so I thought it was humorous.

I know there are a lot of questions on programmers about open sourcing your project, but I have a question in that vein. However, I'm pretty sure it would be closed lightning fast. Namely, my question is "When starting to develop a project that 's planned to be open-sourced via the githubs, do most programmers put the code on github from the beginning, or wait until it's in a working form?" Am I right in expecting that to be closed?

@cori I would try it as: what are the advantages and disadvantages of putting the code on github from the beginning vs waiting until it's in working form. Then it's no longer a polling question.

@psr thanks!

@cori I can't promise it won't be closed. I'm not the best at asking questions here.

@WorldEngineer - OK, now your "psr I'll take our "facism" over Reddit's madness any day of the week" comment has 4 stars. But I never actually said our site has "facism", you are quoting someone else, I'm not sure who, or those are scare quotes. But it looks like I said it, and way more people will see the starred quote than read the context. So please be a bit careful.

I know I've had too much of SE when I start wanting to +1 other people's emails when I'm copied on them...

@ThorbjørnRavnAndersen The Community bot pinged us about some recent answer deletions that you have been doing. Are you just cleaning up some old answers that you don't like?

@maple_shaft Are you sure? The only answer of his I saw deleted in the past few days as this one, which was deleted by Yannis

(I can't see past 9/18 since it only shows the last 50 deletions, but his profile change to "please delete me" was on 9/19)

@Rachel no I am not sure... the community bot can be pretty ignorant sometimes

@maple_shaft It probably checks for deleted items from users whose profile says "please delete me", and flags those for moderator attention

@Rachel oh my

thats a shame... he brought so much value to the site... I hate to see him want to be deleted and leave

@maple_shaft You missed his meta post here? meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/a/4034/1130

@Rachel Apparently.. :(

@maple_shaft Oh and I was wrong, there were 2 other highly voted answers he deleted, but I see you got them. They must not have shown up in the deleted list because they were undeleted at the time I was looking at the list

@Rachel Nope, bot's a lot simpler than that. If you self delete four upvoted posts, it raises a flag, that's it