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Re: Alliance Selection Strategy

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Originally Posted by themccannman View Post
It doesn't virtually ignore defensive robots, it completely does. Offensive Power Ranking is just that, a measure of a robots offensive contribution to their alliance.
To be clear: If a robot's excellent defense boosts the offensive output of its two alliance partners, then that defensive robot will receive credit for the increased scoring during the OPR calculation.

For anyone interested in crunching numbers, there's an interesting discussion going on over here in re analysis of OPR's match results predictive efficacy.