Galileo - The Champion's Division

[DampRobot]

Originally Posted by themccannman

It's actually not. OPR has a ~90% correlation with actual offensive scoring ability. You just need a large enough sample size to get it reasonably accurate (at least 10 matches or more). And I know for a fact that they don't use OPR to build divisions because I compared all 4 divisions and it was extremely obvious that some of them were incredibly stacked compared to the others.

Fair enough. I'll give you that OPR was quite good last year. On the other hand, there were some years (like 2012) when it was absolutely terrible. Personally, I like OPR a fair bit, but it certainly can't tell you all there is to know about a team, and often tells you significantly less than what is important (at least, important for alliance selection).

I was commenting more from the perspective that there seems to be an irrational hatred of OPR among some veteran members of the FRC community, and that those people might be against a metric like OPR controlling divisions.