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An article from Bossi earlier today:

A top 40 prospect at Henderson (Nev.) Findlay Prep before he returned home to Canada for his final year of high school, Jackson is a physical specimen. Standing 6-foot-7 he’s a well-put-together 230-pound combo forward with athleticism and toughness. Though he has never publicly decommitted from UNLV, it is looking more and more like he could end up at UConn.
 
@tcf_15

You teased an article that's behind a paywall on Twitter, are you able to sum up the author's thoughts here? No need to copy/paste.

Edit: lol, nevermind. Thanks!
 
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tcf15 said:
An article from Bossi earlier today:

A top 40 prospect at Henderson (Nev.) Findlay Prep before he returned home to Canada for his final year of high school, Jackson is a physical specimen. Standing 6-foot-7 he’s a well-put-together 230-pound combo forward with athleticism and toughness. Though he has never publicly decommitted from UNLV, it is looking more and more like he could end up at UConn.
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Only had to drudge through 13 pages
 
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lange10 said:
Jerry Meyer crystal ball pick for us as of yesterday morning
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Thanks for the information but these picks are about as valuable as all the drudge we Boneyarders put in these threads. Maybe even less valuable given that some of us find entertainment in our senseless posts while many of us recognize the crystal balls are about as meaningful as the Russian Olympic Federations declaration they don't cheat or the NCAA declaration they care about student athletes getting a proper education.
 
Fishy said:
The one thing that might be worse than crystal ball picks are the posts telling us to ignore crystal ball picks.

We get it.
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Who wants people to ignore the crystal balls. I'm proposing value in senseless posts.
 
lange10 said:
Jerry Meyer crystal ball pick for us as of yesterday morning
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JM is the only one of the CB that are worth following. 95% of them are sheep following a few of the guys who are connected. Truly the only time there is any real validity is when a recruit gives an announcement date
 
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fleudslipcon said:
Thanks for the information but these picks are about as valuable as all the drudge we Boneyarders put in these threads. Maybe even less valuable given that some of us find entertainment in our senseless posts while many of us recognize the crystal balls are about as meaningful as the Russian Olympic Federations declaration they don't cheat or the NCAA declaration they care about student athletes getting a proper education.
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You don't really have to guess how valuable or not valuable these picks are, there are metrics on the site that help quantify the value. For the 2016 class Jerry Meyer has been correct 139 times out of 190 (73%), with an average days correct of 114.4. He is ranked 2nd most accurate on the site for the 2016 class.
 
Hopefully once this weekend is over we can be on watch for him to set an announcement date.
 
wish this thread was locked so when there's an update or news someone can create a new thread
 
fleudslipcon said:
Thanks for the information but these picks are about as valuable as all the drudge we Boneyarders put in these threads. Maybe even less valuable given that some of us find entertainment in our senseless posts while many of us recognize the crystal balls are about as meaningful as the Russian Olympic Federations declaration they don't cheat or the NCAA declaration they care about student athletes getting a proper education.
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Lol. Sorry for posting a crystal ball pick from one of the more reliable guys on 247. In the future I'll only contribute to the 10+ pages of absolute nonsense in this thread.

And yes I know crystal balls suck for the most part. Diamond Stone was the first recruit who I really followed and got me into this addiction that is UConn recruiting. I learned the hard way there that they usually don't mean crap.
 
I love the crystal ball pick posts. Love them. The inevitable denigration of the selection and source whether for or against then quickly capped by a defensive "he was right such and such a time" original poster. I just know whats coming and I still laugh each time. I am a crystal addict and no I don't want any help. No offense meant since I assume you have best interests in mind. We are just all so predictable.
 
7774 said:
You don't really have to guess how valuable or not valuable these picks are, there are metrics on the site that help quantify the value. For the 2016 class Jerry Meyer has been correct 139 times out of 190 (73%), with an average days correct of 114.4. He is ranked 2nd most accurate on the site for the 2016 class.
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lange10 said:
Lol. Sorry for posting a crystal ball pick from one of the more reliable guys on 247. In the future I'll only contribute to the 10+ pages of absolute nonsense in this thread.

And yes I know crystal balls suck for the most part. Diamond Stone was the first recruit who I really followed and got me into this addiction that is UConn recruiting. I learned the hard way there that they usually don't mean crap.
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Didn't know the statistic. First time I've heard of this metric. My post was tongue in cheek but I'm glad I made it. It gave me some information I wasn't aware of and I'm sure there are others equally unaware of it. Is there a median statistic for accuracy?

Who is the number one dude?
 
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fleudslipcon said:
Didn't know the statistic. First time I've heard of this metric. My post was tongue in cheek but I'm glad I made it. It gave me some information I wasn't aware of and I'm sure there are others equally unaware of it. Is there a median statistic for accuracy?

Who is the number one dude?
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Corey Evans from Hoopseen. He hasn't made a prediction for Jackson yet.
 
Matrim55 said:
Corey Evans from Hoopseen. He hasn't made a prediction for Jackson yet.
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Thanks. Is there a breakdown of the accuracy or just a summation of the averages?
 
fleudslipcon said:
Thanks. Is there a breakdown of the accuracy or just a summation of the averages?
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Not sure what you're looking for in terms of a breakdown, but you can see a list of each individual pick someone has made, when they made the pick, and whether they were right or wrong. There are also points assigned to each correct pick, but I've never taken the time to figure out how that is calculated, or what other data is out on the site. Everything I've mentioned is available if you just click on the name of someone who makes picks and go from there.
 
7774 said:
Not sure what you're looking for in terms of a breakdown, but you can see a list of each individual pick someone has made, when they made the pick, and whether they were right or wrong. There are also points assigned to each correct pick, but I've never taken the time to figure out how that is calculated, or what other data is out on the site. Everything I've mentioned is available if you just click on the name of someone who makes picks and go from there.
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Thanks for taking the time to respond. Went to the site and was impressed that many of his picks were two or more weeks from the time of announcement. I was confused by your statement above of average days correct of 114.4. Not sure I understand that reference.
 
fleudslipcon said:
Thanks for taking the time to respond. Went to the site and was impressed that many of his picks were two or more weeks from the time of announcement. I was confused by your statement above of average days correct of 114.4. Not sure I understand that reference.
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I believe it means that for the picks where he was correct, on average he made his correct pick 114 days before the kid announced his choice, so he was "correct for 114 days". This is just my guess based upon 0 research.

If you look through his picks, he has many that are made the week of the announcement, but there are also other ones where he made a correct pick a couple of years before the kid announced. It only takes a few of those where he was correct for 700+ days to really bring up the average.
 
fleudslipcon said:
Thanks for taking the time to respond. Went to the site and was impressed that many of his picks were two or more weeks from the time of announcement. I was confused by your statement above of average days correct of 114.4. Not sure I understand that reference.
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If UK or Duke offers a sophomore, they usually get that kid. And the crystal ball guys know it, so when those offers go out they immediately pick said player to land at UK or Duke -- which pumps up the "average days" metric.

This is starting to apply a little bit to UConn as well -- a bunch of guys picked Reeves to go here when we offered him the other day. If he eventually signs with us, they'll look prescient. But it's really just a smart bet that almost anybody who follows recruiting could make if they wanted to.

I personally think the national guys (even Meyer & Evans) aren't all that knowledgable, and it's the local guys who are worth following. Slater (the dude who has a Duke blog) just picked Bolden to Kentucky, for example. And he picked Waters to Duke the day before Duke offered him.

Anyway, I think the crystal ball is a hell of a lot of fun, but you have to take it with a grain of salt. Recruiting is fluid. ;)
 
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