(02-12-2018 01:44 PM)EigenEagle Wrote:  

(02-12-2018 10:19 AM)EigenEagle Wrote:  Yes, they do have numerical ratings, but all 3-stars have higher numerical ratings than any 2-star. Maybe if you were looking at a dozen signees you might have a point but you are looking at 100+ that were eligible for all-conference awards.

And if you had read carefully you'd see I did compare the percentages of 3-star guys to percentage of 3-star guys signed. The three-star guys are underrepresented in the first-team all-conference group.

I get what you're saying, but that's not good enough. You have the top 25% of conference players in terms of 247 ranking only making up 15% of first-team all-conference performers, that just doesn't speak well to the rankings. That doesn't just show 3-star players aren't any more likely to get selected than non-3-star players, it shows the 2-star players and unrated guys are doing better with a large number of players. The difference between 25% and 15% isn't meaningful if you're talking about a couple dozen players in the conference, but with many hundreds it can't be ignored.

It can if the typical Belt three star is barely above a high two almost no difference in skill and likely offers. If you telling me a .794 guy getting an award over a .81 guy is not good reflection on ratings that is laughable now if all the three star guys you are including were .85+ then you may have a point on rankings. I am pretty sure low three stars and high two fall within and reasonable margin of error lol. Just like a 90th class is probably indistinguishable with 95th ranked class and could be just signing one more guy. On the national scale it is not even close how the rankings play out even at the G5 level with awards and stars and any other measure or awards. You keep saying two and three without any analysis of the numeric rating when there is a huge divide between a borderline three and and mid level three in amount and type of offers. The number beside the star is more important than the star rating for three stars. If you signed 25 three stars you could be 80th or top ten in the rankings.

If I counted right the Belt signed 94 three stars and only five had rating over .85 and did not see one recruit that signed that had the min two star ranking.