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Re: Overview and Analysis of FIRST Stats
We're digging into your stats paper. It's quite useful for thinking about this issue.
However you wrote on p. 9:
Defense - Average of Opponent’s Match Scores
One simple way to measure a team’s defensive power is to simply average their opponent’s match scores.
That's not correct--it measures the average offensive output of the opponents in those matches. This is the error also of the assertion that OPR-CCWM=DRP as a defensive metric. The DPR is actually the OPR of the opposing teams in those matches played. A measure of defense will measure how much that average output differs from the average offense of those opponents in other matches.
(I'll have other thoughts as I go through this paper.)
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