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Originally Posted by Peter Matteson
I just found it curious to look at the championship finalists and see how they feel out in OPR. I would say based on this the Finalist alliance was not a surprise, but the Championship alliance was if you look at the straight numbers. Looking at average ranking however the Championship alliance was clearly the highest ranked.
What does this mean? Probably nothing other than numbers don't tell the whole story, which is just something I like to remind people occasionally.
Championship Winners
67 = 4
294 = 41
177 = 37
Avg = 27
Championship Finalists
1114 = 1
469 = 3
2041= 168
Avg = 57
Galileo Champs
2056 = 2
1625 = 56
3138 = 30
Avg = 88
Archimedes Champs
254 = 5
233 = 22
3357 = 151
Avg = 59
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I am going to sound defensive here although I am not defending my data. This is not my data so I am just defending data in general.
Numbers don't tell the whole story if you randomly pull some numbers out and manipulate them without understanding where the numbers come from. You can make the data look bad or look good depending on how you use it.
First of all, the OPR number that is published takes the whole season into account. For team 294, which had an awesome robot in Atlanta, only ranked 41 in the world because their OPR was only 1.5 at San Diego regional. They then improved their OPR to 4.0 at Los Angeles regional. On Newton field, their OPR was a whooping 7.1 and was Alliance Captain #1 and they picked team 67 with OPR of 7.3 in the first round. However for the whole season, their OPR was 3.9 which is why they were ranked 41. And team 177, a #16 pick on one of 4 fields is ranked 37 worldwide. You can't find a better alliance than this.
I am not sure what you are trying to prove when you say the championship alliance was a surprise.