Rivals Team Rankings

[Mitch McConnell]

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/r ... 12/all/all

Looks like this is the Top 50. SMU is not on it. And this is free content.

[SMU 86]

Also, here are the conference rankings.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/footballrecruit ... 2/CUSA/all

[Peruna 2K5]

It was updated today and says we have only 7 commits? Hmmm. I don't trust team rankings until the day after signing day.

[Peruna 2K5]

Wait I get it, two stars and un-rated don't count. In any case, I'll check again in February.

[Blvd_Stang]

SCOUT HAS UPDATED THEIR RANKINGS. We now have one 4-star and seven 3-stars..

We now have lots more 3 stars, but still only ranked #50:

http://smu.scout.com/a.z?s=357&p=9&c=8&yr=2012

[Wuba]

I have a spreadsheet that I put together last year to calculate the Rivals points for a class. Last year it worked perfectly for SMU and for one other school I checked it on.

Apparently Rivals has tweaked their formula as I would have SMU at 178 points which would put them at #39.

At first I just thought SMU had been left off, but I decided to check my formula on another team so I picked UCLA. Turns out my calculation overestimates UCLA's points as well, so sadly it is not a case of accidentally leaving SMU off.

I think the issue might be that they have changed the way they award bonus for players ranked nationally at their position. In the past, they awarded bonus for players ranked above a certain level at their position (the level varies by position) as shown in the first post on the link below.

http://life.atlantafalcons.com/topic/38 ... -rankings/

Under the old formula UCLA had 5 players receiving the 8 pt bonus, for 40 total. If I only award them 8 pts bonus then my calculation matches the Rivals one. So, it is possible they increased the cutoff for receiving the 8 bonus pts at some or all positions, or they might changed something else about the formula and it is just conicidence that I match when using 8 pts. I lean towards the former as a number of UCLA's players that receive bonus are very close to the old(?) cutoff and a slight tweak would wipe them off.

By the way, the players that would receive bonus points under the old(?) Rivals system are Marks and Pettway. Marks is #25 and according to the old(?) formula the top 50 WR get bonus. Pettway is #32 and the old(?) formula has pts for the top 35 ILB.

[ericdickerson4life]

Someone has too much time on their hands.

[mustangxc]

Actually, the 24 hours per day applies to everyone. What you do with that time is up to you.

[ponyboy]

It's actually up to my wife.

[ericdickerson4life]

To reference another thread, lots of dead kittens.