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Originally Posted by Tom Line
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.
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OPR fails at defense this year because defense in general hasn't been very effective. Those well scoring robots that have low OPRs due to playing defense would have been better off playing offense for all their matches because they are better at offense than defense. For playing defense to be a net gain, you have to stop more points than you would normally score.
Though the fact teams are playing defense when they really shouldn't is why traditional scouting is still important.