The Third Place Game winner kept showing under "In Contention" on the FIFA
World Cup bracket even after the game was scored.
The scoring side was already correct — TEMPLATE_ROUND_CONFIG.fifa_48 finalizes
the 3PG winner at finalPosition 3 with isPartialScore false, so they got their
50 points. The bug was in PlayoffBracket, which re-derives rankings from match
records rather than participant results and only ever ranks losers. The 3PG
winner lost the semifinal but was correctly excluded there by the double-chance
guard, then won the 3PG — so they were never a loser anywhere, never ranked,
and fell through into the active list.
Fixing that also fixes the rank labels, which double-counted positions 3-4:
the 3PG loser was labelled T3 rather than 4, and quarterfinal losers T6 rather
than T5.
Rankings are now built by computeRankedEntries, which resolves a consolation
round at its feeder round: the winner takes the top of the tier the feeder's
losers would otherwise share and the loser the next position, with the
consolation round itself consuming none. Positions are derived rather than
hardcoded to 3/4, so a consolation round hanging off a different feeder lands
correctly too. Only matches that can be placed exactly are withheld from the
loser-driven walk, so an incomplete or partially hydrated consolation match
falls back to the old path instead of being dropped.
loserFeedsInto is set on exactly one round in the templates (fifa_48
Semifinals), so every other bracket keeps its existing behavior.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
