jamey said:Gigemags382 said:
I don't see the value in summing up the recruiting ratings of players across multiple years. Sure, it's more directionally correct than randomly generating team rankings, but it's hard to see how relevant a 2022 (or even 2023 & 2024) recruiting ranking is for a player today. There's so much change from year to year.
I would think with as much data and analysis as there is out there, someone would have come up with a more real-time system of rating players based on current/recent performance. I'm sure someone will develop that at some point.
That wont ever happen imo. Guru rankings aren't exactly done by analysis. Their starting point is which teams are recruiting which players and how hard are they recruiting them. Its just a survey of who's recruiting who.
Often, lost in the shuffle is why, so you get kids ranked a lot higher even though programs know they're unlikely to be a player, but due to superior athleticism they take the risk. If the light comes on, watch out. Thats just an example. Point being guru rankings are not quantitative, they're more qualitative. For for that reason, anything that can big picture bucket players more accurately than a sales technique like top 100, or 5 star is an improvement
Football analytics are never going to be on par with Baseball analytics, there's just too many divisions of skillsets in Football.