I’m new to coding in terms of experience in general but I am wanting to create a small game in Python.

I want to create a game based on a football/Soccer cup competition that I used to play on pen and paper with my Dad, and have the general outline below:

A group of 64 Teams are randomly matched against each for Round 1 (We used to write the teams on small bits of paper, fold them up, put them in a bowl and draw them out) the scores are generated by a dice roll, the results of the match were logged on paper and the winners move to round 2 (Again teams are randomly paired). This continues until there is an eventual winner and this winner is logged.

I’m just wondering how to start it, as being a beginner things can be daunting, I’m not after any solutions to be provided for me (Otherwise I’ll spend my life asking questions on this topic) but more general concepts of where to start.

I started by adding a selection of teams to a list and then I was going to try and randomly pair them against each other but this is where I am stuck. I have now realised I need to make sure once they are drawn they are then not able to be selected again in the same round and also once they lose they are no longer able to be selected until the game starts again.

Again if anyone can help with where to start I can then push on by myself.

Thank you all