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Re: Match Scheduling Algorithm Competition

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Originally Posted by Ed Law View Post
If FIRST wants to follow the sports model, tell me a sport where there is scoring that OPR is not applicable? The only recent game I know that does not work is 2007 Rack "N" Roll where the score goes exponentially up if you have a few tubes forming a chain. What can I say? The game may be good but the scoring is bad from spectators' viewpoint. It is too complicated. We need games and scoring that is simple to explain to visitors. I think I am going off topic.

I guess we can use win/loss, being alliance captain or be drafted in elimination round and how far they advance, which is what the ranking point system is for the Michigan district model.

If you don't like using OPR, do you have any suggestions what we can use?
I'm not saying OPR is a wrong metric. I'm just saying that algorithms are determined before the game is played, what if it is found that the metric chosen is not a good indicator of performance?

I'll also come out and say that any attempt to make schedules "fair" is doomed to failure in my opinion due to differing opinions on what metrics to categorize on. I claim that the only fair way to do scheduling is to not look at the team numbers at all. That way every team has the same chance of getting an easy schedule or an impossible one.
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