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Re: OPS ranking of Michigan FRC teams

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Originally Posted by Wayne TenBrink View Post
I like the concept of the OPS, since neither FiM (district points) score or OPR paints a complete picture (not that any system does).

Every year before MSC and CMP, I come up with my own rating system (WPR = Wayne's Power Rating). The formula is slightly different every year, depending on the game. I normally include just the draft and playoff components of the district score, omit award points, and replace qualification match points with OPR. I normalize and round off the values to yield a final ranking score between 1-10. I think you are kidding yourself if you get beyond 1 or 2 significant digits.
Now that all FiM teams have played twice in Michigan, and pre-DCMP rankings are available, I decided to use the system Wayne described above to calculate a modified OPS. This time it is Selection and Playoff points plus OPR, or SPO. Following Wayne's suggestion, I normalized on a 1-10 scale to give "WPR". The attachment shows details. "Delta" is the number of positions that a team moved relative to official FiM pre-DCMP rank. My Top 25 are:

Spoiler for Richard's "WPR" Rank of FiM Teams pre-MSC:

1 3357 COMETS
2 2771 Code Red / Stray Dogs
3 33 Killer Bees
4 67 The HOT Team
5 2834 Bionic Black Hawks
6 3620 Average Joes
7 3604 Goon Squad
8 85 B.O.B. (Built on Brains)
9 27 Team RUSH
10 3688 Norsemen
11 3534 House of Cards
12 1023 Bedford Express
13 5050 Cow Town Robotics
14 5505 V2 Robotics
15 2767 Stryke Force
16 1918 NC Gears
17 3546 Buc'n'Gears
18 4384 Benzene Bots
19 1718 The Fighting Pi
20 5460 Strike Zone
21 70 More Martians
22 3602 RoboMos
23 3452 GreengineerZ
24 2054 Tech Vikes
25 5926 MooBotics


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Originally Posted by Mike Schreiber View Post
You'll likely see 3536 on Jim and/or Dan's lists this coming week as well - Howell was their first event. They're a shooter that can hang with the rest of the teams up there and are rather tough to defend against since they line up pretty fast.
3536 appears at position 37 on my Pre MSC SPO list, which is 19 slots higher than their official FiM rank. Their normalized "WPR" is 4/10
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Last edited by Richard Wallace : 11-04-2016 at 00:07. Reason: 3536
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