[Cory]

Originally Posted by evanperryg

In a game of keepaway, and with a bot whose strategy encouraged high-scoring opposing teams and alliance members to push them around the entire match, I'm not surprised their OPR would be low, if not negative.


Like Karthik said, there was the inherent flaw in the chokehold that it would ruin your ranking if you did it every qualification match.

It wasn't an inherent flaw. They rarely needed competent alliance partners, so seeding first was not important to them. It wasn't until Championships (and perhaps Einstein) that they were really bailed out by the other talent on their alliance.