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247Composite rankings

  • Today we launched the 247Composite which is the most comprehensive, unbiased prospect ranking. Here's a more detailed explanation.

    The 247Composite Rating is a proprietary algorithm that compiles prospect "rankings" and "ratings" listed in the public domain by the major media recruiting services. It converts average industry ranks and ratings into a linear composite index capping at 1.0000, which indicates a concensus No. 1 prospect across all services. The 247Composite Rating is the industry's most comprehensive and unbiased prospect ranking and is also used to generate 247Sports Team Recruiting Rankings.

    All major media services share an equal percentage in the 247Composite Rating.

    The composite index equally weights this percentage among the services that participate in a ranking for that specific prospect.

    A composite strength meter, indicated by red bars, illustrates the total number of industry services that have ranked the prospect. A full strength meter indicates the prospect has been ranked by all industry services participating in the composite.

    All industry services have a different philosophy on number of "stars" distributed with each class. The 247Composite Rating assigns stars based on an approximate average distribution of stars from the industry.

    For example, here are the new Composite rankings for the members of Louisville 2013 football recruiting class:

    This post was edited by Mike Hughes on 7/30/2012 at 11:22 AM

    2013 Louisville Football Commits

    The 247Sports rankings are determined by our recruiting analysts after countless hours of personal observations, film evaluation and input from our network of scouts. Players are ranked by position, grouped qualitatively with a star ranking and given a numerical ranking based on their future potential.

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  • "The 247Composite Rating is a proprietary algorithm . . ."

    60? It looks to me like the ole algorithm may need some tweeking. In fact, I've looked at four or five rankings, and this is by far the lowest. I have to honest, this is more than a little disappointing -- and by that I don't mean the quality of the class, but how 24/7 has it ranked. Frankly, I was hoping for a more objective approach. I realize that these things are always subjective to a large degree, but it certainly appears that this ranking is based as much on who we are as it is who we have committments from.

    bagdaddy

  • DoubleD2 said...

    So basically what your saying, is you don't do any work yourself at all. You just use everyone else's work and average it out? That doesn't seem accurate at all.

    They do their own rankings and it is included as one of the 4 major sources. It's basically an average which a lot of people have always thought to be the best way to project prospects. No one website is perfect but an average is probably closer

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