RadyLady said:thanks vg!
By my count, here are the number of scholarships remaining for schools that are in the hunt for several players:
Louisville = 2 .... (8 return + 5 recruit)
Ohio St =2 ... (11 return + 2 recruit)
Baylor = ?? ... It has 12 underclassmen and 3 recruits, but perhaps some of the current players are walk-ons.
Texas A&M = 2?
Baylor has no walk-ons.
I think it's great as well. There's probably no ideal way to calculate a totally valid class ranking, but just creating the composite player rankings and organizing the whole thing by school/recruiting class allows us to debate class rankings, see who got whom, etc. Super stuff - much appreciated!I love these posts. You do great work and I admire the data-driven approach to it
I've thought about how to deal with the current UConn class vs. Louisville's class. I can't see a good way to deal with it unless you really give a lot of weight to top recruits, more than you are now. But, I think that it's one of those things that you leave as is and allow the data to speak for itself.
So how are they still in the running for several recruits? Are some existing scholarships going to not be renewed?
Through the North Carolina plan.
Wallace, the girl from Australia, will not be playing in the 2015-16 season, which will open up one additional scholarship for the 2015 class. I suspect that if Baylor lands either Brown or McCowan that they will have to back off of the other two.
Am I reading correctly: If Brown or MCCowan commit, there is no scholly available for #1 recruit in 2016 Lauren Cox? All the message board and Internet chatter predicts Cox to Baylor. (FWIW). No way you cut Cox loose, is there?
VG, Great work as always. Really appreciate you compiling all these data and presenting it in such a fun form. But there is something confusing about this new table., as I would expect that the Ivy would be ranked higher than the Atlantic 10 for 2 reasons: (1) because both conferences had 3 recruits, and the Ivy's recruits were higher ranked, I would expect the Ivy to have a higher average., and (2) there are only 8 Ivy league schools but 14 schools in the poorly named Atlantic 10, which would boost the Ivy's average ranking even more.This shows the average point total for each school in that conference. Thus, the average ACC school has nearly a top 20 class.
The subsequent columns show the number of top 50/100/150/200 players going to those conferences.
Note, I don't track the lesser conferences as well, but I should have top 200 regardless of conference, so I don't think I'm missing anything major.
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I track more than 200. I should've had an extra column with "recruits not in the top 200". Then it would've been clearer.VG, Great work as always. Really appreciate you compiling all these data and presenting it in such a fun form. But there is something confusing about this new table., as I would expect that the Ivy would be ranked higher than the Atlantic 10 for 2 reasons: (1) because both conferences had 3 recruits, and the Ivy's recruits were higher ranked, I would expect the Ivy to have a higher average., and (2) there are only 8 Ivy league schools but 14 schools in the poorly named Atlantic 10, which would boost the Ivy's average ranking even more.
I track more than 200. I should've had an extra column with "recruits not in the top 200". Then it would've been clearer.
Maybe like UCONN sometimes, the year after a big class (they got 5 in 2014 and 3 pretty highly rated) the next year is down a bit (numbers anyway). After Stewart/Jefferson/Tuck we got Chong. After Hayes/Doty/Buck/EDD we got Faris. After TASSK we got KJ. It's a little surprising that UCONN has pulled in 3 very good classes (numbers and players) in a row. And hopefully that will continue in 2016.Noticed South Carolina hasn't signed anyone this year. Loaded roster, but graduate two this year and four next year. Was Dawn too involved with USA Basketball or conscious decision, didn't need to sign any1 this year? South Carolina will need to have a monster recruiting class for 2016 if they want to sustain excellence for five plus years.