Friday, January 11, 2008

A deeper look into recruiting rankings

The following information is taken from the Rivals.com Recruiting information.  I think most of us on here will agree that the "Avg Stars" ranking (quality-based) is a more accurate ranking that the "Rivals Points" system (quantity-based). However, there is something to be said for bringing in a lot of commitments. 

I took a few minutes to put the two ranking systems up against each other...and then to create a "weighted average" in which I gave 75% weight to "Avg Stars" and 25% to "Rivals Points." Those weights are purely arbitrary and can of course be adjusted. There are 20 schools that were ranked in the Top 25 in both groups and 10 schools that were in the Top 25 in one of the groups. Below are the rankings under my weighted average along with their straight line average rank in ()'s. Info is current as of today and I'll try to update this once a week (probably on Tuesdays) after each weekend of January recruting visits.

1. Notre Dame (1)
2. USC (5)
3. Ohio State (3)
4. Georgia (2)
5. Oklahoma (7)
6. Florida St (8)
7. Florida (8)
8. Alabama (6)
9. Michigan (11)
10. UCLA (9)
11. LSU (10)
12. Texas (12)
13. Auburn (14)
14. Miami (13)
15. Pitt (16)
16. Colorado (17)
17. Texas A&M (15)
18. California (21) 
19. Va Tech (18)
20. Oregon (22)
21. Clemson (19)
22. Penn State (23)
23. UNC (29)
24. Illinois (20)
25. Maryland (25) 
26. Texas Tech (30)
27. Arizona (24)
28. Missouri (26)
29. Oklahoma St (27)
30. Minnesota (28)

I hope this makes some sense. If you have any suggestions on changes I should make to the weights given to each ranking then please share them as I'm always open to new ideas. Here is the data I used.



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