Week 4 OPR - All regionals and districts

[Jaxom]

Originally Posted by Jared341

This is definitely a limitation of OPR. I am not sure how valid it is to compare OPRs across events at all, for that matter. I am a much bigger fan of CCWM (OPR+DPR), since it better reflects contributions to score DIFFERENTIAL rather than raw score itself. Many top teams leave a lot of potential points on the field once they see they have built a big lead so that they can ensure a higher success % on the Coopertition Bridge.

Don't the alliance partners also influence the OPR? For example, if you're at a tournament with a large number of robots that can't score, HP & TP will be lower than they would be at a different tournament. I will admit that I don't know exactly how OPR works, but this seems to be the case, at least for our results. Our GCK OPR is much higher than what we showed in STL and I see similar, lower, OPRs for other teams that went to the same two tournaments.

I in no way want to demean any particular tournament. St. Louis is a great regional -- well-run and in a nice facility. The teams there were all fantastic; it's just that there were a higher percentge of teams that couldn't score.