No team plays itself

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{
  "projectId": "1ad26753-ee03-4689-8f0f-6fa5d67c5c72",
  "type": "frontend",
  "name": "Prediction consistency — no team plays itself",
  "description": "Across the full bracket the same team must never appear on both sides of a fixture (a team cannot play itself). Catches naive prediction code that reuses team codes when picking advance-winners for QF/SF/Final brackets.",
  "priority": "p0",
  "metadata": {
    "category": "prediction",
    "stage": "all"
  },
  "planSteps": [
    {
      "type": "action",
      "description": "Navigate to the homepage and read the bracket section"
    },
    {
      "type": "assertion",
      "description": "Verify that for every visible match fixture in the bracket, the home team name is different from the away team name (no fixture shows the same team on both sides)"
    }
  ]
}