[Ed Law]

Okay I have avoided giving my opinion on OPR for a long time. Some people may assume that since I publish the data, my team must use it a lot. I certainly understand the limitation and I understand in what situations it will really screw up the data.

We use OPR/CCWM very similar to other teams who understand the limitations of it. At events we attend, we do not use OPR because we have enough resources to capture every statistics that we need and extra scouts to watch and collect qualitative data to make pre-match decisions and alliance selections. We have a very sophisticated Android program written by a student that is now close to 20,000 lines of code to collect data on 6 tablets. However I do look at OPR at the event we attend to see what other teams see. For competitions that I did not attend and especially pre-scouting at Championship, OPR, sub-OPR and CCWM are very useful tools. Just like any building project, you need to know what is the best tool to accomplish different tasks.