[Tom Line]

OPR is an excellent indicator this year.

What OPR does not clarify, however, is autonomous and climbing.

Autonomous is indefensible. I would much much rather have a robot that has an opr of 55 because it scores a 7 disk every single time in auton, then climbs quickly at the end. Even if it has a zero teleop score. Because that's the perfect robot to have play defense.

OPR will never be an end-all measurement, and you really have to understand the mechanics of the game.

Another place that OPR fails is defense. There were several extremely well-scoring machines at MSC that had low OPR's because they spent half their matches playing defense. Unless you scouted and knew that, you'd assume they were just poor robots.

That's the kind of third round sleeper pick that high seeded teams dream of.