OPS ranking of Michigan FRC teams

[Richard Wallace]

Proposed pre-DCMP ranking method, taking account of:

• Winning
• Scoring
• Leadership and Communication

I am calling this metric OPR plus State Points, or OPS. I started with the RoboZone rankings by Jim Zondag and Dan Kimura, aggregated those two expert lists, and resorted based on OPS, which is the sum of district points earned before DCMP and the team's average OPR. Here is my Michigan Top 25 list as of Week 5:

		           SP		OPS	     rank
33	Killer Bees	   146		190.72	     1
67	The HOT Team	   146		189.97	     2
3357	COMETS	           141		188.02	     3
2834	Bionic B'Hawks	   145		187.01	     4
85	B.O.B	           144		185.60	     5
3620	Average Joes	   125		178.75	     6
1023	Bedford Express	   139		175.02	     7
27	Rush	           122	*	172.45	     8
2767	Stryke Force	   126		168.74	     9
3546	Buc'n Gears	   125		164.60	    10
3534	House of Cards	   127		163.16	    11
1918	NC Gears	   121		162.39	    12
2137	TORC	           124		162.11	    13
1718	Fighting Pi	   126		162.08	    14
3604	Goon Squad	   123	*	161.48	    15
5460	Strike Zone	   119		156.69	    16
4384	Benzene Bots	   116		155.29	    17
3602	RoboMos	           118		151.59	    18
3688	Norsemen	   107	*	145.99	    19
217	ThunderChickens	    98		144.60	    20
4377	Boyne City Blaze   109		144.33	    21
107	R.O.B.O.T.I.C.S.   106		143.71	    22
2619	The Charge	   103		143.12	    23
2054	Tech Vikes	   102		142.16	    24
494	Martians	   107		142.02	    25
70	More Martians	   107		141.68	    26

The OPS metric is not perfect. For example, I think it under-rates Thunderchickens and Tech Vikes*. However, I think it will predict DCMP / CMP performance more accurately than either district points or OPR alone. District points include awards, which I think are a realistic reflection of a team's potential for leadership and communication contribution to alliance success.

I have asterisks in the lines for Rush, Goon Squad, and Norsemen. These teams each have one more FiM event to play in Week 6. I added 50 district points to their present totals, anticipating each team will make the finals at their second event.

Please comment and critique this method of ranking.

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*2771 Code Red is also omitted, because they are not on Dan or Jim's ranking lists (yet), having played their first FiM event in Week 5. I expect they will appear, probably pretty high up, when rankings are recalculated before DCMP.