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The fact that OPR doesn't correlate well with rankings doesn't necessarily make it useless. There is more than one logical conclusion to draw. I think the fact that it seems to correlate less this year than in previous years (from my random observations) is pretty interesting actually. I honestly wish I had the time and smarts to crunch the numbers more: OPR versus both rankings and alliance selection, for this year and the last two.