Saylor up to 30. It does indeed seem they are making their updates in real time. I know i said i wouldn't comment till they were done, but my comments are more related to "which ones are right"...
There are some recruits who are #1, or top 5, or even top 10 according to the services we look at most - ESPN, Blue Star and Prospects Nation. Those are pretty easy - as in Fudd is #1 per everyone. But other players are all over the map. Blue Star seems to be really high on all the UCONN recruits. PN not as much, and ESPN HG is i mixed bag.
Most of us, when we do a deep dive, will look at the composite rankings, meaning the average of the rankings by all the services. Sometimes we get reports of ASGR, another service who I don't think publicly publishes their rankings. At any rate, at least an average of 3-4 services gives us a good idea of how the kids are ranked coming in.
A few of the biggest discrepancies i ever saw involved Kiah Stokes, Stef Dolson and Kelly Faris.
- Kiah - 42, 14, 6, 9
- Stef - 39, 24, 25, 12
- Kelly - 34, 26, 9, 7
Kiah averaged about 18. Stef about 25. Kelly about 19. I think in general, for what those kids meant to UCONN, Stef and Kelly definitely performed way above their rankings, and Kiah was definitely better, but not by as huge a margin as the other 2.
I guess my point is as much as we scratch our heads at some of the numbers we see, the flip side is in a lot of ways the folks ranking for the services have a thankless task as most people will find many nits to pick with their numbers. But bottom line, taking the average should give us a decent idea of how good these kids are currently combined with how the evaluators view their potential. A very subjective science to be sure...
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