OPR vs Coopertition Strategies

[kirtar]

If each alliance plays the game in a "standard" fashion (i.e. both teams attempt to win), I think that OPR/DPR will work fine. However, anything goes away from that will mess up the meaning of the values. Because OPR/DPR just goes by final score, it does not necessarily give credit to who scored, and sometimes can give undue credit because of an arranged match.

Quite honestly, there's not "automatic" way to scout this year that will necessarily be accurate due to the fact of how long the "collusion" argument is. What I mean by this is that you can't just run a program that grabs values off usfirst.org and calculates OPR/DPR and think that it's accurate.

I'd say measure the team's performance in normal matches and throw out any colluded ones (this may or may not include ones in which they attempt to make the score more even). It's difficult to tell. In the end, the numbers won't tell you everything. Write downn general impressions to help you.