Alliance Selection Strategy

[themccannman]

Originally Posted by Tknee

I think it is the word "just" that I and others have a problem with. The mental image of a team picking solely based off OPR seems almost as wrong as picking the next highest seed. Granted OPR is a much better metric than the ranking system, but great alliances aren't composed of offense alone.

Even without a scouting system providing hard numbers of a robots capabilities, a lot of useful soft information can be gleaned by talking to teams in their pits as well as talking to spectators.

That's not what I was trying to communicate, my bad. I was using "just" as a verbal filler which I probably shouldn't. I was trying to make that clear in my other posts that if they have no other options to only rely on OPR for what it is, offensive ranking. Rarely do you ever pick a third robot to score points and be offensive. I realize I could have been clearer with my original posts but I hope this has clarified most of it.