Offensive Power Rankings for 2008

[Jacob Plicque]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

233 and 1251's OPR add to 81, so overall the alliance underperformed* based on the qualifying OPRs. Therefore all three robot's OPRs should go down a little. Those 6 elim matches were 20% of the matches that 233 and 1251 played this year (they went to other regionals too). It was over 40% of 86's matches this year, so 86 would see more of an effect.

Also 233 performed much better at Hawaii then they did in Florida. Since there is only one OPR for the year, it looks like Pink underperformed at Hawaii and overperformed at Florida. I think that 86's OPR would change less when adding in the elims if you were looking at the Florida data only.

*by underperformed, I mean as far as OPR is concerned. It's likely that more defense was played in the finals and was the cause.

Joe,
The Hawaii data for 233 is 53.16 pts versus 35.63 pts at the Florida regional. This 18 point change in OPR probably reflects on the fact that the current matrix mathematics would need a strength of schedule adjustment when comparing 40+ regionals. Has 233 improved its offence by 150% in Hawaii or is the competition 66% as strong? In contrast 1251's OPR varied by only 1 point between Florida and South Carolina.