https://www.dropbox.com/s/o2wufnvixrevncn/newamerica_7BC4FF7A-6ADB-40A0-BA2D-DE424DFBAB89.fmf?dl=0

Let's open-source this. What I'm trying to accomplish is a 24-team east/west conference closed MLS league. Regular season has teams playing home/away matches inside conference and once versus all teams in opposite conference. Playoffs structure is having a single wild card match #5 at #4 each conference to qualify along with top 3 of each conference for the next stage (or MLS Cup in the file). The idea here is to have the #1 and #4/5 winner of east face #2 & #3 west then vice-versa in two 4 team groups. They play one round vs all teams in group at the higher seeded ground, then the top 2 of each qualify for the semis. In semis #1 group A face #2 group B, vice-versa, in a two leg semifinal with away goal rule. Winners face off at a neutral site one-off final for the mls cup.

PROBLEMS: 1) Through simulation what's apparent is that as of now the wild-card match isn't generating (in fact it doesn't show up as a stage in the menus) which then means the playoffs don't generate either. It's gotta be something in how the round identifies what teams are qualified, but I can't quite figure it out. 2) While the west and east conference tables are sorting correctly, and the combined table also sorts correctly, at the end of the competition the "supporter's shield" table (stage 1) will sometime pick the wrong team as champion. In my last test it picked a team in the mid-table and had a "C" by it. I tried to set up the supporter's shield stage the same as the original MLS rules are set up but something's getting lost in the shuffle. Perhaps I just make the supporter's shield a separate comp. and process the mls results into that comp?