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Re: OPR after Week Seven Events

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Originally Posted by Karthik View Post
OPR in 2013 as a stat that is blindly quoted by those without a fundamental understanding of what it means = Thumbs Way Down
On top of that, it is not terribly difficult to actually match scout and get much more accurate, much more useful data. Fundamentally OPR has way less information to rank teams than a match scouter does, so it should come as a surprise to no one that it doesn't do as good of a job.

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All models are wrong, some are useful.
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