We are ranked #3 in recruiting on 247

[Jack Lambert]

Of course, the class boosts overall points as you add players.

The Formula

Team Ranking Explanation

where c is a specific team's total number of commits and Rn is the 247Sports Composite Rating of the nth-best commit times 100.

Explanation

In order to create the most comprehensive Team Recruiting Ranking without any notion of bias, 247Sports Team Recruiting Ranking is solely based on the 247Sports Composite Rating.

Each recruit is weighted in the rankings according to a Gaussian distribution formula (a bell curve), where a team's best recruit is worth the most points. You can think of a team's point score as being the sum of ratings of all the team's commits where the best recruit is worth 100% of his rating value, the second best recruit is worth nearly 100% of his rating value, down to the last recruit who is worth a small fraction of his rating value. This formula ensures that all commits contribute at least some value to the team's score without heavily rewarding teams that have several more commitments than others.

Readers familiar with the Gaussian distribution formula will note that we use a varying value for σ based on the standard deviation for the total number of commits between schools for the given sport. This standard deviation creates a bell curve with an inflection point near the average number of players recruited per team.

Below is a graphical representation of how our formula works. You can see that the area under the curve gets smaller both as the rating for a commit decreases and as the number of total commits for a school increases. The y-axis in this graph represents the percentage weight of the score that gets applied to an overall team ranking.



What you are missing is the "quantity over quality" statement -- when we are considered outright or co-leaders for 3 players that could easily end up as 5* players. As such, those players boost the class alot more than taking a few lower rated guys hold it back given the bell curve of the formula.

Looks like the formula Scott Tissue uses to reach 1000 sheets.

[starkvegasdawg]

Of course, the class boosts overall points as you add players.

The Formula

Team Ranking Explanation

where c is a specific team's total number of commits and Rn is the 247Sports Composite Rating of the nth-best commit times 100.

Explanation

In order to create the most comprehensive Team Recruiting Ranking without any notion of bias, 247Sports Team Recruiting Ranking is solely based on the 247Sports Composite Rating.

Each recruit is weighted in the rankings according to a Gaussian distribution formula (a bell curve), where a team's best recruit is worth the most points. You can think of a team's point score as being the sum of ratings of all the team's commits where the best recruit is worth 100% of his rating value, the second best recruit is worth nearly 100% of his rating value, down to the last recruit who is worth a small fraction of his rating value. This formula ensures that all commits contribute at least some value to the team's score without heavily rewarding teams that have several more commitments than others.

Readers familiar with the Gaussian distribution formula will note that we use a varying value for σ based on the standard deviation for the total number of commits between schools for the given sport. This standard deviation creates a bell curve with an inflection point near the average number of players recruited per team.

Below is a graphical representation of how our formula works. You can see that the area under the curve gets smaller both as the rating for a commit decreases and as the number of total commits for a school increases. The y-axis in this graph represents the percentage weight of the score that gets applied to an overall team ranking.



What you are missing is the "quantity over quality" statement -- when we are considered outright or co-leaders for 3 players that could easily end up as 5* players. As such, those players boost the class alot more than taking a few lower rated guys hold it back given the bell curve of the formula.

Damn. I should have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

[dawgs]

If you take our current class and extrapolate it to 25 on the calculator today, we will total 215.89. That's counting our top 7 3x and bottom 2 2x. That was 30th last year. Is that not accurate since they tinker with the standard deviation of the avg commitment per team factor or is it not significant enough to worry about?

The 6 players you referenced must be real solid if they get us 217 at 15 commits. If we are about to kill it, awesome, we are about to kill it. Otherwise, we have to keep up the current pace to crack the Top 30.

well the flaw right now is that if you are looking at the composite, rivals, scout, and espn aren't as fast to update so they are weighing down our class avg/ranking right now. according to the composite we have 1 4* and 8 3*. but according to 247 only, we have 6 4* and 3 3*. i'd expect our composite to rise accordingly as the recruiting cycle moves forward. the composite rankings are really kinda useless until all the sites are on the same stage of evaluation, which really won't happen until the end of summer/early fall after summer camps.

[Coach34]

Damn. I should have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

I dont speak Engie unless he explains it...

[Esmerelda Villalobos]

Engie needs a "release"

[dawgs]

I dont speak Engie unless he explains it...

essentially it's weighted so that the best player in your class counts for the most and each subsequent player counts for a little less all the way to the worst player in the class (according to the rankings). it lessens certain classes ranking high due to quantity over quality. under old formulas, classes with 30 commits from a couple of 4* and the rest 3* would rank ahead of a class of only 20 recruits but with more 4+* guys. this formula tries striking a balance between quantity and quality. the idea being the guys at the back end of the class are far more likely to simply be program depth or end up transferring to a smaller school to get playing time.