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Identity of Club 12 is anyone's guess . . .

EACH year the SPL utilise the services of Canadian IT firm Optimal Planning Solutions to navigate the intricacies of the league's 12-team format and devise a fixture list which keeps as many people happy as possible.

But it is doubtful whether even Deep Blue or those clever people behind the Large Hadron Collider could come up with an algorithm capable of computing the myriad different variables present in the set of games the Scottish Premier League released yesterday in a manner which avoided any arguments.

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