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Re: 2015 OPR After Week Two Events

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Originally Posted by Bongle View Post
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.
I think you're right. Assuming that teams are being earnest in trying for coop points the "DPR" is actually a measure of coop stacking competence.
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