paper: How Accurate is OPR?

[Joe Ross]

How did you validate the accuracy of your scouting data? Why did you choose to use percent error, rather then absolute error?

A few more things that would be interesting to look at:

Do the results change if you only look at the top 24 or 30 teams at an event (the teams you would be considering when forming a pick list)?
Is there an OPR at which it becomes more accurate? Looking at chart 13, OPRs above 15 seem much better then those below 15 (obviously game dependent).
Can you quantify the percent chance that Team A is better then Team B, given a specific OPR difference (IE, Team A has an OPR that is 1 higher then Team B, and has a 55% chance of being better then Team B, but Team C has an OPR that is 10 higher then Team B, and has a 90% chance of being better then Team B.
Does the percent error histogram still look normal if you discard the outliers and put more bins between -100% and +200%?