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Developing elite talent - BostonCard - 06-07-2021

https://247sports.com/LongFormArticle/College-football-recruiting-development-NFL-Draft-picks-results-Development-Rating-2021-166233526/#166233526_1

(I don't think it's behind a paywall).

Bottom line, they looked at where "elite talent" as determined by their recruiting rankings wound up being drafted:



Anyways, Stanford is 7th by that metric for players recruited between 2012 and 2016 (who generally would have been drafted sometime between 2015 and 2021).

BC

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RE: Developing elite talent - oldalum - 06-08-2021

The study uses 247sports' recruit rankings as the gold standard (naturally). But another explanation for doing well in this scoring system, in addition to a program doing a good job developing players relative to other programs, is that the program does a better job than 247sports at evaluating high school players (as the article acknowledges in passing--they admit they are most interested in learning how programs do with the 4 and 5 star players).

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RE: Developing elite talent - BostonCard - 06-08-2021

Excellent point. Note it also means that a school that internally rates a 24/7 ranked top 100 player akin to more like a top 250 player, but who would still recruit such a player with gusto will be disadvantaged.

BC

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