Recruiting Insights Week 9

[tsweezy]

9 Weeks in the books and more and more recruits are signing! Shout out to Tennessee for signing QB1 of the future, Brandon Savage :leftsharkdab:

 

In any case, if you missed the last few weeks, instead of expected stars to grade the class, I have given each player a "rating" which should be an estimate of how good they will be as a Junior. This takes into account their overall and star rating for initial rating, and a theoretical progression over 2 years based on potential. This should hopefully strike a balance between high potential players who may end up really good, but only for a year or 2 vs. instant contributors with a lower ceiling. For some ballpark ranges, 5 stars are around 50-55 points, 4 stars and good 3 stars are around 40-50 and an "average" 3 star recruit is 38 or 39 points.

 

To get the overall score, just add up the players you're in solo lead for plus 40% of the stars you're in a battle for (so if you're the only name on a 4 star, a 3 star, and battling for a 5 star you get 9 expected stars) .

 

In addition, this week I am adding the number of recruits a school is involved with in red, to show how some teams are doing well because of the number of recruits they're involved on, and give a little bit of a look as to how good their "average" recruit might be.

This week some of the top are separating themselves. Kansas is still #1 thanks to all the recruits they have, but Kentucky is creeping up. Central Michigan makes a big jump up to 3rd while the Boise State / Tennessee / Missouri / Purdue group are all in a tight heat before class grades drop a little bit. Interestingly, the top classes signed so far (Bowling Green, Air Force, West Virginia) are not projected to finish that highly, although it may just be part of their strategies. Time will tell. Also expect some shakeups as week 10 comes in and the second batch of affinities are applied.

 

I also have another update on conference average classes: Same as before (and always)

SEC in first, followed by the B1G just edging out the MAC.

 

Anyways, that's all we have for this week. Tune in next week for (maybe) some bigger updates with @Sarge helping!