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Re: Easy to use Offensive Power Rankings (OPR) program for mid-regional scouting

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Originally Posted by Bongle View Post
Interpretations:
A high DPR might indicate:
-No-shows or broken robots that spend whole matches with a stopped trailer, thus getting filled up
-Robots that tend to get into positions where they get scored on
-Robots that tend to get their alliance partners into positions where they get scored on
-Robots with no auto mode
-Generally, high DPR means low mobility. It is a robot that gets scored on a lot.
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High DPR can also mean that a robot purposely scored on his own alliance trailers to increase RS (ranking score) or to prevent a G14 violation.

I can tell you that we did this in 4 of our 7 Q-matches. And it got us the highest RS of all the 2 loss teams and allowed us to be seeded 4th. Without this strategy we would not have gotten to pick 1625 and and probably not have won the regional.

In one case we stopped scoring for ourselves with 30 seconds to go and scored about 40 points for the other alliance. So that also lowered our OPR a little bit. I think many the good veteran teams did this to some extent.
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Warning: this reply is just an approximation of what I meant to convey - engineers cannot possibly use just written words to express what they are thinking.
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