While the star raters are fickle, I tend to look at the average 247 composite rating of our commits. By that measure, we are not doing better than in previous years.

Rating
2018 85.25
2017 86.09
2016 87.08
2015 87.69

I believe we will wind up with a higher rating as some of our guys will be upgraded and we will get some higher rated guys. But this is the only objective measure of talent I can think of and we are not doing better by it.