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 |