Recruiting insights week 12

[tsweezy]

A little bit more volatility this past week, people are starting to make moves it looks like.

 

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) .

 

This week, the blue dots (and the order of the x-axis) is this weeks expectation, and red is last weeks. An increase means that that school is now listed on more or on better recruits than last week, and a decrease means they lost their lead on recruit(s).

 

Once again, it's pretty clear who's moving up in the world. Top 6 have stayed the same through much of the season, but Houston has made a huge jump up into 7th place as of this week! We also see Georgia and LSU making some big moves along with UCLA. Again, very few teams are dropping in these charts, but by the end of the year this whole thing should be much tighter and between 700-1100 or so.

 

Conference averages for those who care:

SEC of course at the top by a mile

very tightly clustered group fighting for second: current order is B1G -> AAC -> MAC

 

That's all this week, hope you enjoy and hope nobody out there is a :bad noodle::badass noodle:

[alexfall862]

I'm really interested to see if Kansas connects on some 'croots