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Message: [QUOTE="visitingcock, post: 3672235, member: 6872"] I greatly appreciate and respect your hard work. However, I offer the following [B][U]opinion[/U][/B]: [B] Rankings 1-18 are valid rankings. [/B]These prospects are in the Top 30 of all five rankings. Therefore, this is a [U]true[/U] cumulative ranking. (Though the average ranking [I]score[/I] of Saniya Rivers should be adjusted to 3.3 because she is ranked #2 by Prospect Nation.) [B]Rankings 18-30 are invalid as a cumulative ranking. [U]Why? [/U][/B] There are two reasons. First, these rankings are biased in favor of Blue Star. Second, 4 of these players are unranked by one or more of the services. [B]Blue Star Top 30 Bias: [/B]You start with [U]only[/U] the Top 30 of Blue Star. This eliminates a number of Good Prospects who are ranked below 30 by that service. [U]Example: Laila Phelia[/U] (Michigan). She is ranked 31 by Blue Star, 54 by Prospect nation, 28 by HoopGurlz, 61 by ASGR, and 33 by PGH for a total of 207. Thus, her average score would be 41.4. That places her cumulative ranking above the player that Blue Star ranks as #20, Jada Walker. The same problem applies to Bree Hall (SCar) and perhaps a few others. [B]Players unranked by other some or all other services: [/B]The BlueStar bias is clearly apparent in Example one below. [U]Example One[/U]: Ava Learn (Purdue) is ranked #25 by Blue Star. However, NONE of the other services appear to have her ranked! Thus, she cannot have a "cumulative" score. The other services rank either 75 or 100 prospects. To be fair, let's assume that the other services rank her 76. That would give her a cumulative score of 329 and a cumulative ranking of 65.8. A similar problem exists with Macie James. [U]Example Two: [/U]Jada Walker. She is unranked by Prospect Nation who ranks 75 prospects. She has a total score of 167 from the 4 other services. To be truly cululative in relation to the other players, you should assign her a theoretical Prospect Nation ranking of 76. Thus, her cumulative score should be 243. That makes her cumulative ranking 48.6. Yeah, this one is more picky than example one. Again, I salute your effort and it has been a great contribution to this board (the best their is). However, I only consider the first 18 to be [U]truly[/U] cumulative rankings. To be perfectly cumulative beyond that point, it would need to compare the top 75 of all 5 services. Thank you for your hard work! [/QUOTE]

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