Day by Day
Special Teams Player
It will be interesting to see what recruits we are still in on are available after the early signing day. I'm not sure how many we are in on, and not sure about, are signing soon.
***2018 Recruiting***
- Thread starter Mavric
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I have been following recruiting from a distance the last few years but with the Scott Frost hiring and the excitement around the program I have been following much more closely this year. Can someone with more knowledge in regards to 247 explain why class rankings are based on the total number as opposed to the average rating for the players committed/signed?
Looking back at 2017 Nebraska finished 23rd but if it was based on the average player rating the Huskers would have finished 19th. For 2018 with the current commits, the Huskers are ranked 54th based on the total but would be ranked 21st at this point in time based on average player rating.
tyrone_biggums
Four-Star Recruit
Would you rather have 20 players on your team or 10? If you take one 5 star should you really be the #1 class?
Hedley Lamarr
All-American
We obviously are not done recruiting and will get more 3 and 4 star prospects. I still think we end up with best class in the West. We already have the best QB recruit in the West
tyrone_biggums
Four-Star Recruit
And then the class ranking should go up. I was just explaining why even though our average prospect rating is high, our class ranking is low.
If 10 4 stars went against 20 3 stars, I'd put my money on the 20 3 stars
Hedley Lamarr
All-American
Every other team in the West had QBs that are low (5.5) to mid (5.6) 3 stars at QB for commits. We have a 5.9 4 star....
Hedley Lamarr
All-American
You are correct. It is all a hit or miss numbers game. If you are hitting on +50% you are doing a damn good job. The trick signing enough guys.
BIG ERN
All-American
Rivals uses the top 20 commitments for each class for their team ranking formulas since most times that is the low end of a class number. That way things are evened out whether you signed 20 or 27.
Hedley Lamarr
All-American
Interesting fact, we have the 2nd highest rated QB in the B1G conference.
tOSU 6.0 4 star
NU 5.9 4 star
Mich 5.8 4 star
Everyone else 3 stars
tOSU 6.0 4 star
NU 5.9 4 star
Mich 5.8 4 star
Everyone else 3 stars
tyrone_biggums
Four-Star Recruit
They play games against other teams of a hundred of guys and then we usually give a ranking to the 25 best.
But before that we rank the singular class of recruits.
This really gets at the question I had... If Team X has room for 17 recruits and averages a 92.00 rating and Team Y has room for 24 recruits and averages a 89.00 rating I would rather have the class with the higher average rating. Just confusing to me that the total number of commits would be the indicator given that every team has ebbs and flows to the size of a class.
