looking at OPR across events

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Over a sufficiently large sample, a team's value to an average alliance should become clear with OPR/CCWM, though.

Maybe for an average qualifications alliance, but not for an average eliminations alliance. Many useful robot attributes cannot be demonstrated in every qualification match due to random alliance pairings. Examples:

1. A great defensive robot doesn't have a big impact in matches where the other alliance would not have been scoring a lot of points anyway.

2. Catching robots require someone to provide a controlled truss shot.

3. Inbounders and assisters require someone to inbound to/assist to.

In each, case, OPR/CCWM will tend to systemically underrate these attributes since they are only utilized in a subset of qualification matches and (in most cases) will have their dependencies met in elims. High goal scorers and truss shooters can manufacture pretty good scores by themselves and are therefore comparatively overrated by OPR/CCWM.