Incorporating Opposing Alliance Information in CCWM Calculations

[AGPapa]

Currently we've mostly been seeing how WMPR does at a small district event with a lot of matches per team (a best-case scenario for these stats). I wanted to see how it would do in a worse case. Here's how each stat performed at "predicting" the winner of each match 2014 Archimedes Division (100 teams, 10 matches/team).

OPR: 85.6%
CCWM: 87.4%
WMPR: 92.2%
EPR: 89.2%

WMPR holds up surprisingly well in this situation and outperforms the other stats. EPR does better than OPR, but worse than WMPR. I don't really like EPR, as it seems difficult to interpret. The whole idea behind using the winning margin is that the red robots can influence the blue score. Yet EPR also models bf = b1 + b2 + b3, which is counter to this.

Originally Posted by wgardner

AGPapa's results are using the full data as training data and then reusing it as testing data.

On the same data doing the "remove one match from the training data, model based on the rest of the data, use the removed match as testing data, and repeat the process for all matches" method, I got the following results:

The data above is also done by using the training data as the testing data. Could you also run your method on it to check?







On another note:

I've also found that it's difficult to compare WMPR's across events (whereas OPR's are easy to compare). This is because a match that ends 210-200 looks the same as one that ends 30-20. At very competitive events this becomes a huge problem. Here's an example from team 33's 2014 season.

WMPRs at each Event:
MISOU: 78.9
MIMID: 37.0
MITRY: 77.8
MICMP: 29.4
ARCHI: 40.8


Anyone who watched 33 at their second district event would tell you that they didn't do as well as their first, and these numbers show that. But these numbers also show that 33 did better at their second event than at the State Championship. This is clearly incorrect, 33 won the State Championship but got knocked out in the semis at their second district event.
You can see pretty clearly that the more competitive events (MSC, Archimedes) result in lower WMPRs, which makes it very difficult to compare this stat across events.

This occurs because using the least-norm solution has an average of zero for every event. It treats all events as equal, when they're not. I propose that instead of having the average be zero, the average should be how many points the average robot scored at that event. (So we should add the average event score / 3 to every team's WMPR). This will smooth out the differences between each event. Using this method, here are 33's new WMPRs.

MISOU: 106.3
MIMID: 71.7
MITRY: 112.7
MICMP: 86.0
ARCHI: 93.5

Now these numbers correctly reflect how 33 did at each event. MIMID has the lowest WMPR, and that's where 33 did the worst. Their stats at MICMP and ARCHI are now comparable to their district events.

OPR has proliferated because it's easy to understand (this robot scores X points per match). With this change, WMPR also becomes easier to understand (this robot scores and defends their opponents by X points per match).

Since this adds the same constant to everybody's WMPR, it'll still predict the match winner and margin of victory with the same accuracy.

Thoughts?