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Originally Posted by Ether
I suspect what he is trying to do is get "real time" OPR estimates during the early stages of an event, before enough matches have been played to create an overdetermined system suitable for least-squares estimation.
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I think you are right.
Real time OPR calcs, like the ones available on FRC Spyder, are not very helpful before ~5 matches are played. Even then I don't rely on them before about 8 matches. This is one of the many nice things about playing in a district system -- we get useful OPR data for our Friday evening scouting discussions.
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