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Investigating the Accuracy of College Football Recruiting Rankings

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Michael MacKelvie

Every year, several recruiting sites (247 Sports, Rivals, ESPN) release their recruiting rankings…but, just how accurate are these rankings?

How good are we at predicting potential?
This…was a project. I spent weeks (with the friendly help of others) building spreadsheets full of prior recruiting years (25 Stars with Rivals and 247Sports). We used Rivals for the AllPro examination, as many of the players that are AllPro’s from the last decade predated 247Sports.
For the draft accuracy, we examined 247Sports, as this was fresher data coming from what most would consider the most accurate (we used their composite rankings).
Let me know your thoughts! Always appreciate feedback…hope you enjoy.

Check out my previous video analyzing the NFL Draft:    • You Will Never Look at the NFL Draft ...  

00:00 Predicting Potential
01:27 Recruiting…is Weird
04:35 Longterm Analysis
13:10 NFL Draft Accuracy
15:10 Correlation to Winning

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