There are two issues wrong with this seasons repechage games:
A) Malaysia got in instead of Taiwan (check
(http://www.buzzerbeater.com/world/standings.aspx?teamid=1...)). This was only brought to my attention 2 days ago (on Wednesday).
B) The games were initially played without the enthusiasm reset happening. They were rescheduled but the rescheduled matches had the option to change the lineups/tactics. This was a mistake on my part and will be corrected.
As for the solution to the problems, here's what we decided to do. We always do our best to catch mistakes when they happen. There are a ton of moving parts in BuzzerBeater, though, so we sometimes have to rely on the affected community members to point out some deeper mistakes. That's why we have the bugs forum, so people have a space to mention things they think were run incorrectly. In this case, not even the manager of the national team that was left out mentioned any issue until after the first games were run, and, unfortunately, that doesn't leave us with very many options for helping out with the situation. Had it been brought to our attention before the game, we would have been able to remedy it easily.
The fairest option available, in light of the situation, is the following:
1) Taiwan will be swapped into the rotation in place of Malaysia.
2) The game played incorrectly by Malaysia will be considered a forfeit by Taiwan. The same enthusiasm will be used for the game by the opponent. Taiwan will have enthusiasm as if it played this match "Take it Easy"
3) Taiwan will participate in the remainder of the repechage as intended
Since that handles the first issue, the second issue will be sorted as follows. Since we still have a backup of the lineups/tactics set for Monday, we are going to:
1) backup all relevant data
2) reset the enthusiasm of the U21 repechage teams back to 5
3) reset injuries and set game shape to respectable for all players from those teams
4) schedule and play a new set of games using the lineups/tactics from our backups from Monday
5) restore players game shape, injuries and teams enthusiasm to backed up values
6) update the repechage tables with new data
We will do this to all games except the Malaysia game, which will be set as a forfeit and Taiwan will take Malaysia's place in that match, future matches and the repechage overall.
The replays are probably going to happen on Sunday. We hope this will remedy the situation but are aware that there's no perfect solution.