looking at OPR across events

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Originally Posted by Michael Hill

Unfortunately when you do that, you'll be setting yourself up for failure. You want to choose the robots that will best pair with your particular set of skills. Those robots could very well be misrepresented by OPR. As mentioned previously, look at 254's selections at CVR. They chose robots that are very compatible with their style of play even though they were near the vey bottom in OPR.

No one is arguing against that strategy, but not every team has the 'Poofs resources to implement it.

If you recognize that OPR is a tool just like a hammer is a tool, it isn't hard to see that it has practical uses with definite limitations. I wouldn't, and pretty much everyone that understands OPR wouldn't use it to strictly pick an alliance, but when you need to quickly fasten two pieces of wood together it's hard to beat a hammer and a nail.