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Originally Posted by GearsOfFury
Totally agree with all of your other points except this one. Why do you need to "differentiate your picks" for the sake of differentiation? You need to find the best robots available to complete your alliance. If there were a single, universal system to do this, it wouldn't be any less valuable just because everyone else was using it.
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I guess another way of thinking of it is imagine this scene:
A: "How can we make our paper-based scouting better?"
B: "Let's use this OPR thing. It'll make us better than the opposition for sure!"
The problem in this scene is that nearly every other quality team is probably also augmenting their scouting with OPR. So in order to be scouting smarter than the opposition, you need to be thinking further than the numbers you can pull off the internet.
Essentially, the rising tide of more-available analytical tools has lifted everyone's scouting boats: everyone is scouting better because of it, but a given team is probably relatively in the same position vis a vis its competitors as it was before the advent of easy-to-use OPR data. So you need to use it, but to assume that it is the ticket to better-than-your-opposition picking may be a bad assumption.
Another hobby of mine is triathlons, where you see something similar: a new, faster bike will come out, and you'll buy it and use it just to keep up with your competitors. The speedier bike or technology doesn't necessarily move you up the rankings, since everyone else is using it - moving up still requires hard work and getting better.