[Husker] Average 4-year Recruiting Rankings and WL%

[Mike Jaixen]

It's really a chicken/egg argument.  When Alabama recruits a player now, people automatically assume he's pretty darn good, and he earns a higher ranking as a result.  There are numerous instances where the services bump the star ranking for a player once they commit to a known school.  I think a couple of Nebraska's recruits this year have received bumps in star rankings in recent weeks because they committed.  And you can't say that a high school player suddenly got better in December either...

Mike Jaixen
http://huskermike.blogspot.com
http://www.cornnation.com

--- On Tue, 1/29/13, Dick Karre <dkarre at comcast.net> wrote:

From: Dick Karre <dkarre at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Husker] Average 4-year Recruiting Rankings and WL%
To: husker at tssi.com
Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 1:34 PM

On 1/29/2013 12:24 PM, Kenneth Oliver wrote:
> Something I read years ago suggested that correlation between recruiting and w/l record was not as expected. Higher recruiting ranks was not well correlated to subsequent higher w/l records.  But a high w/l record was correlated to higher subsequent recruiting rankings. The rich get richer.

And the players recruited by the rich are (perhaps) more highly regarded because they are recruited by the rich.

-- Dick Karre
dkarre at comcast.net


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