Is alliance selection usually this bad?

[Grim Tuesday]

Originally Posted by lineskier

A huge wild card is the declinations you see this year. I think many of them are well founded as the FIRST ranking is horribly broken for this year. Many people say #s can't be used for alliance selection, but I'm starting to think #s like OPR and ETC(EMC and ERC) are critical to good alliance selection. Scouting doesn't seem to cut it this year.

I don't consider OPR a good measure of robot quality. It is unable to rate defensive robots, and almost all winning alliances have a good defender behind them.