[themccannman]

Originally Posted by DampRobot

Because then people would jump down Manchester's throat because OPR is a useless/misunderstood/abused/biased/wrong/silly/number-based/ridiculous/old-fashioned/left-leaning/conservative/smelly/overrated metric.

But hey, who knows, maybe that's how they do it already! It's not like they've told us.

It's actually not. OPR has a ~90% correlation with actual offensive scoring ability. You just need a large enough sample size to get it reasonably accurate (at least 10 matches or more). And I know for a fact that they don't use OPR to build divisions because I compared all 4 divisions and it was extremely obvious that some of them were incredibly stacked compared to the others.