Why won't it go through the ifelse statement when the if statement isn't satisfied?

A= zeros(3,10);
A(1,:,:)=[1:10];
B=.5+rand(1,10)*.4;
A(2,:,:)=B;
C=round(1+rand(1,10)*7);
A(3,:,:)= C;
A

team_A= zeros(3,5);
team_B= zeros(3,5);
for d=[1:1:10]
    j=10;
    k=9;
    if rem(d,2)==1;
    for e=[1:1:j]
    if A(2,e,:)== max(B)
        p=e;
        team_A(:,2,:)=A(:,p,:);
        A(:,p)=NaN;
    end
    end
    elseif rem(d,2)==0
        for f=[1:1:k]
            if A(2,f,:)== max(C)
            i=f;
            team_B(:,2,:)=A(:,i,:);
            A(:,i)=NaN;
            end
        end
    end
    j=j-2;
    k=k-2;
end

[Jacob Savona]

Then it doesn't loop as well.

Answer 1

[Roger Stafford]

It is highly unlikely that any random element in the second row of A would happen to be exactly equal to the maximum integer of the third row in the line

   if A(2,f,:)== max(C)

The odds are one in a thousand million million or thereabouts. For that reason it is equally unlikely that the 'elseif' would ever lead to a change in team_B.