(12-11-2017 01:34 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  

(12-11-2017 12:22 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(12-11-2017 09:29 AM)BearcatMan Wrote:  Champions League draw was definitely not as rigged for big boy progression as I thought it would...it's going to be a hell of a set of games for the round of 16.

Juventus vs. Tottenham
Basel vs. Man City
Porto vs. Liverpool
Sevilla vs. Man United
Real Madrid vs. PSG
Shakhtar vs. Roma
Chelsea vs. Barcelona
Bayern vs. Besi

I think the most entertaining pairing could be Shakhtar vs. Roma where defense will be purely optional, and an option both sides aren't keen to take.

If they had tried to rig this, it would have been comically obvious. With 5 PL teams, and 4 of them in first, it was almost impossible to create a bracket randomly that didn't have at least two huge matchups.

I mentioned it earlier, but Chelsea had to play either PSG, Barcelona, or Besiktas in the Round of 16 because all the PL teams won their group. I'm working on the math, but I believe it was virtually guaranteed that two of Chelsea, Munich, or Madird would have to play a PSG, Barcelona, or PL team.

Yup. Chelsea had a 44% chance of playing Barca due to group/country limitations.

Yeah, that one was as close to expected as could be. Interesting one to me though is PSG/Mardrid. Not sure which one to pull for in that one but will probably lean towards PSG.