I recall the ones posted on BGS

by suave_andrew, Sunday, June 13, 2010, 14:30 (5841 days ago) @ CW (Rakes)

They were interesting reads.

It's not that I don't think the recruiting services are useful, it's rather that I feel people place way too much significance in how meaningful the rankings are as a predictive tool of a team's performance.

The rankings do indeed hold SOME predictive power, more so than I thought, but the real key is trying to figure out a way to use them more productively than just saying "ND's average recruiting rankings for the last 4 years means we're the 10th most talented team this year!"

I'm going to eventually try and look at how to combine them with team experience, among other things. I've tried strength of schedule using recruiting rankings before and it only loosely works. It would be interesting to try and figure out some way to track how well coaches can develop talent, but that's way down the road.