How to implement double elimination algorithm in php?

Question

Hereby I have attached some code snippets, which I had implemented but it is still not working.....

competitors are representing the names of teams that are participating in the competition. events are giving us the final result. rounds is basically used as a variable which differentiate the cases for number of teams

$competitors = array(
    "Louisville",
    "Duke",
    "Gonzaga",
    "Kansas",
    "Indiana",
    "Ohio State"
);

$rounds = log( count( $competitors ), 2 ) + 1;

// round one
for( $i = 0; $i < log( count( $competitors ), 2 ); $i++ )
{
    $seeded = array( );
    foreach( $competitors as $competitor )
    {
        $splice = pow( 2, $i );

        $seeded = array_merge( $seeded, array_splice( $competitors, 0, $splice ) );
        $seeded = array_merge( $seeded, array_splice( $competitors, -$splice ) );
    }
    $competitors = $seeded;
}
$events = array_chunk( $seeded, 2 );


if( $rounds > 2 )
{
    $round_index = count( $events );

    // second round
    for( $i = 0; $i < count( $competitors ) / 2; $i++ )
    {
        array_push( $events, array(
            array( 'from_event_index' => $i, 'from_event_rank' => 1 ), // rank 1 = winner
            array( 'from_event_index' => ++$i, 'from_event_rank' => 1 )
        ) );
    }

    $round_matchups = array( );
    for( $i = 0; $i < count( $competitors ) / 2; $i++ )
    {
        array_push( $round_matchups, array(
            array( 'from_event_index' => $i, 'from_event_rank' => 2 ), // rank 2 = loser
            array( 'from_event_index' => ++$i, 'from_event_rank' => 2 )
        ) );
    }
    $events = array_merge( $events, $round_matchups );

    for( $i = 0; $i < count( $round_matchups ); $i++ )
    {
        array_push( $events, array(
            array( 'from_event_index' => $i + count( $competitors ) / 2, 'from_event_rank' => 2 ),
            array( 'from_event_index' => $i + count( $competitors ) / 2 + count( $competitors ) / 2 / 2, 'from_event_rank' => 1 )
        ) );
    }
}

if( $rounds > 3 )
{
    // subsequent rounds
    for( $i = 0; $i < $rounds - 3; $i++ )
    {
        $round_events = pow( 2, $rounds - 3 - $i );
        $total_events = count( $events );

        for( $j = 0; $j < $round_events; $j++ )
        {
            array_push( $events, array(
                array( 'from_event_index' => $j + $round_index, 'from_event_rank' => 1 ),
                array( 'from_event_index' => ++$j + $round_index, 'from_event_rank' => 1 )
            ) );
        }

        for( $j = 0; $j < $round_events; $j++ )
        {
            array_push( $events, array(
                array( 'from_event_index' => $j + $round_index + $round_events * 2, 'from_event_rank' => 1 ),
                array( 'from_event_index' => ++$j + $round_index + $round_events * 2, 'from_event_rank' => 1 )
            ) );
        }

        for( $j = 0; $j < $round_events / 2; $j++ )
        {
            array_push( $events, array(
                array( 'from_event_index' => $j + $total_events, 'from_event_rank' => 2 ),
                array( 'from_event_index' => $j + $total_events + $round_events / 2, 'from_event_rank' => 1 )
            ) );
        }

        $round_index = $total_events;
    }

}

if( $rounds > 1 )
{
    // finals
    array_push( $events, array(
        array( 'from_event_index' => count( $events ) - 3, 'from_event_rank' => 1 ),
        array( 'from_event_index' => count( $events ) - 1, 'from_event_rank' => 1 )
     ) );
}

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The problem I am facing in this:

 - No of cases I am getting are higher than actual. Like for n matches I obtain (2n-1) matches
 - In some cases there are decimal values which appear to be invalid data
 - Using this algorithm, I need to generate a bracket