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Originally Posted by Citrus Dad
On a separate point, this year may reveal that the "DPR" actually isn't a a measure of the defensive ability of a robot. The average OPR is about 14.7 so far and the CCWM average is about 0 as usual. However, the only effective means that an opposing alliance has of influencing the score of an alliance is via throwing pool noodles. (Stealing center cans hasn't come into play in the quals rounds yet.) The DPR implies that each alliance is AVERAGING more than 2 noodles per match on the opposing side. That most certainly has not been the case in the regionals that I've watched.
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There's a much bigger way to influence the other team's score in qualifications: Say that you'll cooperate, and then fail to do so (on purpose or not). If they spend 30-60 seconds getting their yellow totes onto the platform and then you don't reciprocate, you'll have reduced the other alliance's score since that was 30-60 seconds they could've spent scoring.
Note that there are lots of ways to do this without ill intent:
-Simply failing to get your yellow totes across
-Knocking over their stack
-Tending to create tippy co-op stacks that the oppositions then tips over (and draws a penalty for)
Obviously, doing this maliciously to trick your opposition into wasting time would be tremendously un-GP.
A hypothesis that comes out of this idea is: There may be a correlation between DPR and co-op scoring. A team that's big on co-op scoring should see their opposition tend to score fewer tote or container points.