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Science is Done
You had to hear it from someone, and it might as well be me. Science is done. Through. Finished. Kaput. We technical types have known this for years. But we conspired to keep the drooling rube masses in the dark for as long as possible. Unfortunately, the jig is up. It's no longer possible...
2010 Talent Analysis Part VI- The Overachievers
Below is a list of teams with pretty unimpressive class rankings. They rarely sniff a 4 star player and in some cases they have rosters made up almost entirely of kids that some of the recruiting services haven’t even heard of. I like to think of these programs as overachievers. In many ways...
10 Year Rivals Recruiting Rankings Proves ... Irrelevence
Rivals released their "Top 25 Recruiting Schools" list today, and there are multiple ways to look at the numbers, but in the end, when you look at the numbers and factor out some "known quantities", the link between recruiting rankings and results on the field doesn't really stand up. Ten of the...
Talent on SEC Rosters by Average Star Ranking
Every so often we'll look at recruiting rankings for teams over the span of a few years to approximate the amount of talent on hand. That's a nice shorthand, but it doesn't account for transfers, injury casualties, disciplinary washouts, and any other kind of attrition. I decided to do something to...
USC Recruiting: The struggles of the 2009 team and the correlation to the recruiting class of 2006
The Stable The obvious struggles of this years team has made a few people take a closer look at the make up of this team. It is easy to point to the loss of all the talent on defense as well as the loss of Mark Sanchez last season but does that tell the whole story? There is a lot of talent on...
Welcome to the Club: David Hale Receives Dumb Insult, Gains Blog Cred
Personally, I don’t follow recruiting. It involves commitments of time and resources (for a Rivals or Scout subscription) I simply am not prepared to commit to tracking the college choices of teenage boys. One of the many benefits MaconDawg brings to this site is his ability to write about...
NFL Draft and Recruiting Rankings
A constant theme of our recruiting coverage here at ATVS is to emphasize that recruiting rankings mean something, but they don't mean everything. In illustration of that fact, let us examine the NFL Draft and how it corresponds to the players' star rating (according to Rivals) as the time of their...
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