Star crap

[Verobob]

I have little faith in the "star" system. Moreover, correct me if I'm
wrong about the player, but didn't JJ recruit Russell Maryland
out of a Chicago HS with zero stars ?

 

[Comma7201]

Oh this thread again

 

[wvcanefan]

Pretty sure it's been solidly proven that while being a 5 star doesn't guarantee success, they do preform well at a higher percentage than diamonds in the rough

 

[Verobob]

So very sorry am I. Just didn't know that THIS THREAD had been on before BECAUSE
this is my FIRST visit to this board. !!!!

 

[B.B.B]

I have little faith in the "star" system. Moreover, correct me if I'm
wrong about the player, but didn't JJ recruit Russell Maryland
out of a Chicago HS with zero stars ?

Yup, Jim Brown was zero stars too..

 

[01Canes]

Don't be dumb.

There are roughly 4,500 scholarships signed each National Signing Day with about 30 prospects receiving the heralded five-star ranking. An additional 400 will get four stars while the other 4,000 check in as three- or two-star prospects. So when a stat says only 16 five-stars were drafted against 71 two-stars (like in 2014), it’s utterly lazy reporting.

Every team that has won a national title since 1998, with the exception of Oklahoma in 2000, has had at least two top ten classes in the four years before winning a title.

Stars are not everything and they shouldn't be blindly trusted, but they absolutely matter.

In nearly 1,500 matchups between 2010-13, the “higher-ranked team according to the recruiting rankings won roughly two-thirds of the time” and the larger the talent differential, the easier it was to predict wins and losses. To quote the author, "it's a landslide."

Essentially, in a world where it’s nearly impossible to predict outcomes, picking games based purely on star rankings is actually your best bet.

Landing the top class has led directly to competing for a national title over the last 10 years. Higher ranked recruiting classes regularly defeat lower ranked classes at nearly a 70 percent clip. And higher ranked prospects are significantly more likely to get drafted by the NFL than lower ranked ones.