Ancient Reptile
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Not only that but at least the 247 rating as explained by the one of the 247 folks here:
is biased towards the highly rated prospects even beyond their numerical value. They base the top prospects upward and the lower ones downwards:
"Your highest ranked recruits in a class are rewarded more points than those at the bottom. Top gives 100%, next highest just under 100% all the way down the final recruit in the class only giving a very small percentage of the score.
USC has 3 recruits inside the Top 200. UF only has 2. It's the bottom end of USC's class that causes their average grade per commit to be lower with a prospects with an 84 and 83 grades.
Long version....
Each recruit is weighted in the rankings according to a GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION FORMULA (a bell curve), where a team's best recruit is worth the most points. You can think of a team's point score as being the sum of ratings of all the team's commits where the best recruit is worth 100% of his rating value, the second best recruit is worth nearly 100% of his rating value, down to the last recruit who is worth a small fraction of his rating value. This formula ensures that all commits contribute at least some value to the team's score without heavily rewarding teams that have several more commitments than others.
Readers familiar with the Gaussian distribution formula will note that we use a varying value for s based on the standard deviation for the total number of commits between schools for the given sport. This STANDARD DEVIATION creates a bell curve with an inflection point near the average number of players recruited per team.
Below is a graphical representation of how our formula works. You can see that the area under the curve gets smaller both as the rating for a commit decreases and as the number of total commits for a school increases. The y-axis in this graph represents the percentage weight of the score that gets applied to an overall team ranking."
Florida Gators land commitment from OLB/DE Mohamoud Diabate
Mohamoud Diabate commits to Florida
Can we give Mullen a little credit for recruiting?
I think because they like to emphasize the 5*, the flashy commits because those are probably the ones that drive the excitement. It ends up being top heavy.Any word, leo, on why they do this?
Diwun Black has moved to Kissimmee for his final year but isn't playing football this year...curious move and hopefully this is just to concentrate fully on his academics
Diwun Black has had some grade concerns, so him concentrating on his grades is probably wise.Huh?
Diwun Black has had some grade concerns, so him concentrating on his grades is probably wise.
What don't you get?
“I really like everything about Florida,” Diabate said after that trip to Gainesville in July. “I like the campus and it’s very beautiful and they have a great academic center for the athlete and the coaches are really nice and great people and you can tell they know their stuff and care for their players. The town is kind of like a city and a town and I really like being there.”
Hmm. Well, I guess if you're from Pahokee or Belle Glade, Gainesville's kind of like a city. If you're from Miami, it's definitely a town.
“I really like everything about Florida,” Diabate said after that trip to Gainesville in July. “I like the campus and it’s very beautiful and they have a great academic center for the athlete and the coaches are really nice and great people and you can tell they know their stuff and care for their players. The town is kind of like a city and a town and I really like being there.”
Hmm. Well, I guess if you're from Pahokee or Belle Glade, Gainesville's kind of like a city. If you're from Miami, it's definitely a town.[/QUOTE
I have lived in Gville for 33years. Yeah it's still small compared to Miami or Tampa. But over the last 10 years or so it has grown so much. It's not a sleepy town that shuts completely down in summer anymore. Butler is 10 times the size it used to be. The west side keeps expanding further towards newberry. It's definitely way bigger in the last 10 years.
Maybe needs some courses to meet UF entrance requirements an/or get enough credits to graduate in December? Possibly his present school does't have early graduation?Diwun Black has moved to Kissimmee for his final year but isn't playing football this year...curious move and hopefully this is just to concentrate fully on his academics
Florida Gators land commitment from OLB/DE Mohamoud Diabate
Mohamoud Diabate commits to Florida
Can we give Mullen a little credit for recruiting?
All sites ratings are skewed somewhat and there are politics being played on kids who attend or don't attend certain camps. A better way is to look at their legit offer lists and top 3-5 schools they are actually officially visiting. If those schools are places like Bama, uga, Clemson, fsu, auburn, osu, etc then you know that kid can flat out play...if they are visiting ucf, usf, vandy, fiu, fau, or some other **** school then we are reaching...