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Originally Posted by JesseK
Fine print: The latter two may prove useful for finding that key 2nd pick in a field of robots that aren't highly publicized, yet no score-based statistical rating system should be used by itself to evaluate a team's ability to win a competition.
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Or DPR may be useful to find teams that dont understand the seeding system
IMHO Team Update 16 made OPR useful again with a 5 pt incentive to win, however DPR and CCWM (or PM) is still useless.
Perhaps we should make a new calculation for this year: Seeding Power Ranking (SPR) and just an alliance's seeding points for that match instead of the score (EDIT: obviously it is not as simple as that since you have to take opponents into account). That way we can find the diamonds in the rough unfortunate enough to have weak schedules with weak opponents and even weaker partners. Lets face it a tough schedule isnt necessarily a bad thing this year and it can carry you with seeding points without you really having to do much. But what are you contributing to the seeding pts versus just being with/against top seeding bots? It could be a relevant stat as seeding points are what matters in qualifiers.