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Originally Posted by Chris is me
What do you guys think of OPR this year? It seems like based on a comparison of WPI's rankings versus the actual data we took, it is better than using ranking to sort teams, but still pretty noisy. I know our team's OPR was a bit low. I bet this was due to getting a lot of matches with other good teams at the regional where the score was lower than you'd expect (robot failures, etc). The other teams are ranked at least in the right ballpark, but not in a very solid order. 1100's OPR rank of #6 in particular is criminally low.
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The OPR is a good representation of how good a team is this year. Without this coopertition award and coopertition points and weird ranking system, every team is trying to score as much as possible. However for regionals with lots of teams and not that many matches, there is still a lot of luck of the draw and the ranking will become meaningless. In that case, the OPR will still tell the truth about a team because data does not lie, only people do.
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12-03-2013, 01:04
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