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Originally Posted by Joe Ross
I wonder how much of the low OPRs in Michigan are due to amount of minibots in Michigan. A 2 second minibot would probably get 1st or 2nd in 90% (or more) of matches world wide. However, in Michigan, it might be down to 3rd or 4th.
For example, more then 50% of teams in Michigan had a lower OPR at the state championship then at one of their districts. I haven't looked at teams who had their 3rd or 4th event at regionals to see what percentage improved, but I'd bet its much higher.
If Michigan teams were given a 5 or 10 point minibot bonus to bring them inline with other events, I bet the line would be similar to last year.
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I would also think that this can be attributed to the amount of good teams and the diminishing returns of scoring in this game.
For example, let's say your event has all robots that can each put up 6 tubes and all have < 1.5 sec minibots. Let's say that every match ends up 120 - 100. Then every robot would end up with an OPR of about 35, which is good, but not breathtaking.
Throw one of these robots into a weak regional where the 2nd best team can only put up 2 tubes and only a few teams have minibots. A 6-tube machine with a good minibot and consistent autonomous should put up 78 points per match by themselves. That would give them a very high OPR (65+) in the weak regional, but thrown into the tough regional described above it would probably be ~35.