2015 OPR After Week Two Event

[Citrus Dad]

Originally Posted by Ed Law

OPR has different components, one of which is from coop points. You are correct in saying that CCWM points is not raised because of scoring coop points. However OPR and CCWM are not related at all. I don't think the difference between OPR and CCWM is the average coop points. This statement is only true if your opposing alliance never score a single point in all your matches and their score is only from the coop points.

You're right. I rethought my point after I wrote the post. However a much more useful measure is the "net" OPR that subtracts the average coop points per match. Including coop points greatly distorts the true offensive output of the robot particularly for elimination rounds. This is a case where the quals OPR may not be representative of the elims OPR.

On a separate point, this year may reveal that the "DPR" actually isn't a a measure of the defensive ability of a robot. The average OPR is about 14.7 so far and the CCWM average is about 0 as usual. However, the only effective means that an opposing alliance has of influencing the score of an alliance is via throwing pool noodles. (Stealing center cans hasn't come into play in the quals rounds yet.) The DPR implies that each alliance is AVERAGING more than 2 noodles per match on the opposing side. That most certainly has not been the case in the regionals that I've watched.