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Monday, February 18, 2008

They don't make them like they used to.

Philadelphia, July 4th, 1776...
"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

Pristina, February 17th, 2008...
" We declare Kosovo to be a democratic, secular and multiethnic republic, guided by the principles of non-discrimination and equal protection under the law. We shall protect and promote the rights of all communities in Kosovo and create the conditions necessary for their effective participation in political and decision-making processes."

Remember this day little girl... remember.

Thursday, February 07, 2008

The ARR® for 2008.

The Alternative Recruiting Rankings® provided to you by DublinSaab.

The way that recruiting classes are assessed is by giving each player that is recruited by a given team a certain point value and then adding up the total value of all payers ranked to give a total score. It is these scores that are used to rank a schools class.

While this is the industry standard I feel that it misses the point. Under the accepted system a school with a large number of mediocre players can have a class ranking higher than a school with a small number of great players. The problem with this is that a school like USC which only needs a few players to augment the tremendous talent they already have may have a lower class ranking than a school like Alabama, which at the moment needs as many players as they can get as they have little in the way of talent. This gives fans an unrealistic assessment of the future viability of their school.

This is where I come in with my ARR® where I rank the individual score of the average recruit and not the aggregate score. So, with no further a due…

Rank

School

Avg. Player Score

Traditional Ranking*

1

USC

121.68

7

2

Notre Dame

119.30

2

3

Florida

118.18

3

4

Ohio State

117.31

9

5

Oklahoma

115.33

5

6

Georgia

96.71

6

7

Texas

95.95

14

8

Michigan

92.29

10

9

Alabama

88.62

1

10

UCLA

83.65

13

11

LSU

82.08

11

12

Clemson

81.27

12

13

FL State

75.03

8

14

Miami (FL)

74.76

4

15

Colorado

71.90

15

16

Oregon

71.53

19

17

Pitt

62.05

29

18

Texas A&M

61.75

16

19

S. Carolina

60.09

22

20

N. Carolina

59.56

34

21

Maryland

58.95

32

22

Tennessee

57.06

36

23

Mizzou

52.78

26

24

Cal

50.95

35

25

Penn St.

50.00

42

The team that faired the worst under the ARR® was Miami (FL) which fell 10 spots due to having a large class, but not a lot of great players and the team that came out like roses was Pen State raising 17 spots thanks to a small class of decent players.

I believe that the ARR® is a better ranking system because it shows the quality of players a stable program like USC or Ohio State are bringing in without the large class bias of schools with troubles or under transitions like Miami (FL), Alabama or Minnesota which came up #17 in the traditional rankings but pulls up a more appropriate #31 in the ARR®.

Feel free to comment!

*These are the rankings as according to Rivals.com, other sources may have slightly different ranks and scores but you get the idea. Don’t you?