paper: OPR-based Ranking of FRC Teams over 2008-2013

[Basel A]

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OPR-based Ranking of FRC Teams over 2008-2013 by Basel A

[Basel A]

I created this spreadsheet for use in a discussion of the top 10 FRC teams of all time, but there seemed to be significant interest, so I updated it for 2013. Using raw data from Team 2834's Yearly Scouting Databases, I found the Average Event OPR for each team over each season. This data was used to rank teams by their average yearly rank and their average yearly z-score.

If we are to trust OPR, then 1114 and 2056 are by far the best teams of the past 6 years. If you're looking for a rough top 10, it goes something like this: 1114, 2056, 987, 67, 254, 469, 111, 1717, 25, & 33.


Remember that OPR isn't perfect or close. Don't take the results too seriously.

Includes filtering by location (state and/or country). Incorrect Locations should be minimal to non-existent, but please let me know about errors. Only the USA and Canada can be filtered by state/province. All other countries use "Other" as the state.

[Joe Ross]

By default, the filtering is only showing Michigan. If you can't find your team, set the filters to all.

[Akash Rastogi]

Cool resource to look at, Basel. The ranking by state is also fun to look at.

[Adam Freeman]

Basel,

Pretty impressive spreadsheet. It's a very interesting way of trying to objectively determine the top teams. I'm not sure OPR was extremely representative in all years 2008-2013, but much better than nothing that's for sure.

Without really looking at every team and their position, it would be really hard to argue with a teams position +/- a small (5?, 10?) # of spots.

Very cool, thanks!

[Basel A]

Updated this to include the 2014 data. Also added Z-Score Prediction based on a time-derated average (the same system Jim uses in his CMP history chart).

Top 10 got shaken up a bit, probably because the 2014 OPRs are simply awful, almost as bad as 2009. Which is fine, because this is just for fun.


P.S. Why would you download the old ones? Don't download the old ones..