This is great to see Dominick – thanks for letting me know about your experiment!

No Andy, I’m every bit as lazy as you. (I mean this as a good thing!)

In the score calculation step, I put in a major penalty if there is someone in the group that is in a group member’s exclude list. I think one of my struggles with the entire algorithm was whether a penalty would be tough enough to prevent one of the things I didn’t want to happen. How do I know if a penalty is enough? Do I need to actually do a final algorithmic check in the end to make sure that these rules isn’t violated?

Now that I’ve actually done it, I can see that it’s pretty easy to verify whether this is the case or not from the score. I also feel more comfortable with my skills using Javascript objects to monitor this themselves and ‘announce’ they have problems rather than having to do a set of logical checks in the end of a beefy array. Trusting the algorithm to work was key.