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Originally Posted by SlimBoJones
Expect all good scouting teams to be using these stats in the very near future.
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Although I love these numbers as and overall indicator of offensive contribution among many teams many matches, they are no substitution for scouting at your event and recording "actual" contributions. These numbers are great to scout with going into Championship. However, if you only use the numbers from 5 qualification matches (per team) to evaluate teams and generate your list on Friday night, there is something wrong with your methods. (Shawn, I know you were not thinking of these number as replacements for all other scouting)
My explanation for why the data is seams like it is skewed towards the extremes is team coordination, track speed, and defense. When very good teams get to together, this is a different game (you can see it in the elims). They are able to coordinate their strategy better (particularly hybrid mode). Ex. If a partner's hybrid routine bumps knocks off their higher-scoring partner's hybrid, that can easily cost the alliance 20+ points (which would reflect very badly on the the OPR of lower scoring bot). When good scoring machines are together (particularly when they are on both alliances) the track moves a lot quicker and there are very few traffic jams, so everyone scores more. If there is defense being played, it will likely only slow down the higher scoring machine, so the impact of the scoring capabilities of the partners is increased. These reasons should also explain some of the differences between regionals. Of coarse there is always the random variable of luck, but we will assume that is zero mean
Well thats my $0.02