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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
I debated that and for some reason they don't stand out in my mind as "dominant" in the same sense the other teams do so I left them off.
I do point to them as probably the most elegant robot of all time though.
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1114 in 2008 was the most dominant robot since Team Hammond in 2002. While Einstein was far from their shining performance (despite winning the championship), their season as a whole merits consideration among the best seasons in FRC history. Their hybrid period scores alone would frequently beat other alliances' scores for the match. They had a period of time between the final qualification match at GTR and the first match on Einstein where they won 34 consecutive matches. In a game where the median
winning score was somewhere around 50, 1114's mean scores for the season were north of 100.
2008 was one of the few games where OPR can actually provide some meaningful data and insight, and 1114's OPR absolutely blew everyone else out of the water. Their
season long OPR (71.63) was 34% higher than the 2nd highest OPR (1124 at 53.27). Among
individual regional event OPR's, they had the highest two by a wide marging and their week 1 event ranked 7th.
The gulf between 1114 and everyone else in 2008 was massive.