This will be a look at how much recruiting changes over the course of a year. I constructed an algorithm that tracks how each program is doing in terms of recruiting for 2021. I will reveal the full methodology after NSD, but the purpose here is to see how chaotic recruiting in college football is. Each school is assigned a random code. The star-points is each school’s current score based upon the algorithm. The column on the right is that school’s rank for that month. Schools with fewer than 4 points are excluded.
I coded each school (I also did for players and positions, but that is irrelevant here) so I don’t know how each school is doing (yes, I could look it up, but I’m not going to do that until after NSD).
Here is the first list:
5/1/2020
| school | sum_star_points | rank_points |
| m22b8 | 345 | 1 |
| d7t22 | 280 | 2 |
| u9z14 | 211 | 3 |
| r21v4 | 181 | 4 |
| f7z2 | 172 | 5 |
| v26x18 | 161 | 6 |
| r20z2 | 159 | 7 |
| c1d19 | 148 | 8 |
| e19i12 | 144 | 9 |
| l14z25 | 141 | 10 |
| d16o5 | 133 | 11 |
| k26m12 | 112 | 12.5 |
| t25m16 | 112 | 12.5 |
| k20i15 | 97 | 14.5 |
| d11u16 | 97 | 14.5 |
| z22v17 | 83 | 16 |
| h4u3 | 73 | 17 |
| h1z22 | 69 | 18 |
| i24d10 | 68 | 19 |
| k18a7 | 64 | 20 |
| d17g13 | 57 | 21 |
| c20u4 | 48 | 23 |
| p16n8 | 48 | 23 |
| r5f22 | 48 | 23 |
| y5l1 | 44 | 25 |
| h15z5 | 40 | 26 |
| n12m12 | 36 | 27 |
| a19c19 | 32 | 28 |
| f18q6 | 28 | 31 |
| m10y9 | 28 | 31 |
| p24s14 | 28 | 31 |
| u10j20 | 28 | 31 |
| c26t19 | 28 | 31 |
| r5m14 | 24 | 34.5 |
| h24h7 | 24 | 34.5 |
| l19d7 | 16 | 37 |
| n22p23 | 16 | 37 |
| x10h10 | 16 | 37 |
| g24t21 | 12 | 41 |
| k8f6 | 12 | 41 |
| l2k21 | 12 | 41 |
| o12i11 | 12 | 41 |
| s22p11 | 12 | 41 |
| q25f10 | 8 | 45.5 |
| n1v26 | 8 | 45.5 |
| d4t10 | 8 | 45.5 |
| o14n6 | 8 | 45.5 |
| o17q4 | 4 | 48 |
The Fair Catch 