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Originally Posted by Chris Hibner
As always, an awesome spreadsheet.
However, I think the normalization goes in the wrong direction. It seems this year that strong regionals result in lower OPRs for teams (see MSC, for example). The reason is due to diminishing returns of the tube scoring, as well as the size of the scoring zone not allowing three excellent scoring robots to all score efficiently simultaneously. Additionally, having only two minibot poles for three robots adds to this effect.
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Chris,
I do agree that the normalization goes the wrong way when it comes to MSC. However, MSC is just a complete statistical aberration due to the overall strength of the state of Michigan, and the exclusive nature of the event. Most other regionals never really got to the point where they reached the point of diminishing returns of tube scoring in qualifying, or never consistently had three scoring robots on a qualifying alliance. What we saw more of was many weak regionals where only 1-6 teams could score effectively, as such there were considerably lower scores. (Events with elimination matches where only 7 points were scored, etc.)