Recruiting “level’d up” with the 2017 class which by 247, ranked #15. And that is by average, not by the total points metric. The average focuses on quality while the total points factors in quality and number of recruits signed. The 2018 class was awesome. It was #12 and experts we trust believe that some
UW’s 2017 recruiting class (or 2016 class as I categorize in the chart below) is currently #10 when ranked by average stars by Scout.com. It is best to focus on that ranking for two reasons. It is more predictive than the usual way of rating classes. That way places an equal emphasis on the number
One way to measure recruiting is to look at the average ranking of classes by star average rather than total point. The reason is the average star looks at the average ranking of each recruit and is more predictive than total points which places emphasis on the size of the class. For example a class