Alliance Selection Strategy

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Bwalker

What exactly does OPR stand for and what is it?

Offensive Power Ranking.

It's an estimate of how much each team scores per match, or rather their point contribution to their alliance (on average).

The biggest problem with using solely OPR is that 1) it virtually ignores defensive players, and 2) it takes a bit of setup to run the numbers properly. (It also doesn't distinguish between how points are scored--if you're a 50-point climber and you pick a 50-point climber because they have a high OPR, you'll probably be blanked by the 50-point climber that picked a pair of shooter/defense robots that combined for 50 points.)