View Single Post
  #4   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 09-03-2009, 11:21
kirtar kirtar is offline
Alumnus
FRC #0461 (Westside Boiler Invasion)
Team Role: Alumni
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Rookie Year: 2007
Location: West Lafayette, IN
Posts: 169
kirtar will become famous soon enough
Re: Help on OPR and DPR

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ed Law View Post
Because of the way our matrices are assembled, as long as every team has played at least one match, the matrix is invertable. That is because the diagonal terms are the number of matches that team played, which is why OPR can not be calculated until you have some matches done. Otherwise you will have some zeroes at the diagonal terms and it will make your matrix become singular and can not be inverted.

Ed
Ah that would be it. The matrix in the pdf has a team which has played no matches.
__________________