For the next King of 94, We’ll be moving towards a tiered system.
Coin flip.
1. Losing player chooses tier and is visitor.
2. Winning player chooses team from that tier or a team from a tier below and is home.
3. Losing player chooses a team from that tier or a team from a tier below not already chosen.
This will give players more options to pick the team they want. There is still some strategy involved if you are trying to restrict a player using his favourite team by picking a lower tier. It removes having to track which match ups you previously picked which was too hard to track.
How I came up with a tiered system below. I used team selection choices from past king of 94 matchups. In theory, by running it through a gauntlet of team choices it would be able to give me a better idea of tiered choices people selected and therefore hopefully removing any personal bias on team selection (which I think it did in the end). I ran it through a couple of times to narrow down tiers. Here's what it came up with.
SNES
Tier 1 - PIT, DET, CHI, BOS
Tier 2 - VAN, NYR, CAL, LA
Tier 3 - MTL, BUF, QUE, WIN
Tier 4 - WAS, TOR, PHI
Tier 5 - STL, NJ, DAL
Tier 6 - EDM, NYI, HAR
Tier 7 - OTT, SJ, TB, FLA, ANA
SEGA
Tier 1 - DET, CHI, BUF
Tier 2 - VAN, LA, MTL
Tier 3 - CAL, BOS, WIN
Tier 4 - NYR, QUE, DAL, TOR
Tier 5 - PHI, PIT, STL, WSH
Tier 6 - EDM, NJD, HFD, NYI
TIer 7 - OTT, SJ, TB, FLA, ANA