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Originally Posted by Ronnie314
You see a lot of the number #1 alliances winning this year do to the large differentiation in quality and performance. I have attended events where our OPR was almost triple that of the next best team, a huge gap that might make other teams mad at you.
-Ronnie
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As I've pointed out elsewhere (see 1114 Statistical Outlier) this year is particularly skewed with just a few teams way ahead of the rest of the field. In fact the data shows this is the most skewed year in which we have data (since 2008). This is arising from the game design. The top teams are acting as we would expect them to do so given the situation. The solution is in making sure future games don't lead to such skewness.
The draft order has been debated every year. The important factor is to remember that other proposals can lead to teams trying to lose games to move around in the draft order. The current system rewards teams for finishing first and discourages weird disincentives.