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Topic: Espn Recruiting

Topic: Espn Recruiting

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BleedGreeb
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Espn Recruiting

Posted: 1/6/2017 10:35:52 PM

How accurate is there database looked the other day a lot of solid players it said we've offered sorry just a local

Last Edited: 1/6/2017 10:36:32 PM by BleedGreeb

L.C.
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RE: Espn Recruiting

Posted: 1/7/2017 12:57:39 AM

The money is in evaluating recruits for Top P5 programs, not G5 schools. The top schools have more fans that are willing to pay for access to recruiting information, so rating G5 recruits is a money-loser. The rating services have figured that out, and have modified their coverage accordingly. Here is my opinion of the current status of the various recruiting services:
ESPN - like most of the recruiting services focuses on P5 recruiting. They spend little if any time rating players recruited by G5 schools. On average they rate 1-2 players a year that Ohio recruits (players they expected to end up at P5 schools), and the others are simply "unrated". When they do rate players recruited by Ohio, there is little if any correlation to how they actually turn out, so I consider their ratings entirely worthless for evaluating Ohio's recruiting classes.

Rivals - they no longer even seem to have a page for Ohio anymore, lumping them in with FCS schools as insignificant. They rate a few players who commit to Ohio, mostly by accident. Again, I don't consider their ratings to have any value anymore when evaluating Ohio's recruiting classes.

Scout.com does rate Ohio players, but it simply rates almost all G5 recruits as 2-stars, so there is no discrimination. Pretty much all G5 schools look about the same - almost all 2-star players with a few 3-stars mixed in. There is no way to tell a good class from a bad one when all players have the same rating.

247Sports - actually rates almost all players, and the do it on a scale from 70-99, so there is a lot of discrimination from one player to the next. Even better, their ratings even seem to correlate to actual performance. I consider them the best of the lot, and none of the others are even close.

Here is a link to the Ohio page at 247Sports:
http://ohio.247sports.com/Season/2017-Football/Commits

Let's pick a player on the 247 site, Morgan Ellison. He is listed in big numbers as ".8341". That number is an average for the ratings by the four services I mention. If you look closely you can find the rating by 247 itself, which is "88". That's the number I consider to have the most value. If you average 3 worthless numbers with one good one, that does not give you a better number.

�We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.� ― Epictetus

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