(02-09-2017, 06:44 AM)OutsiderFan link Wrote:I'm assuming that if you looked at the Top 10 avg. over the Shaw era, and looked at the avg. ranking per recruit for all such teams over that period, Stanford would be at a similar avg. ranking number as the top 7-12 programs over the same period.
To my surprise, our average quality really isn't as different from our overall composite ranking as I would have thought. I don't have the time to calculate for every recruit and average it all out across multiple years, but just doing a brute force calculation of ranking per year, we had two years with a big difference: 2017 and 2013. Otherwise, they were pretty comparable. This end, here's our rankings based on average quality and overall composite according to 247sports:
2017: 4th in average quality; 14th in overall composite
2016: 23rd in average quality; 16th in overall composite
2015: 24th in average quality; 24th in overall composite
2014: 8th in average quality; 13th in overall composite
2013: 21st in average quality; 51st in overall composite
2012: 9th in average quality; 7th in overall composite
So, if we say the 2012 class was the first class Shaw was fully responsible for, his averages are:
~15th in average quality, ~21st in overall composite. Either way, our year-to-year performance has outperformed either.