(02-05-2020 04:31 PM)TXHuskieJA26 Wrote:  I don't know if I'm the only one that has ever wondered exactly how some of the recruiting services calculate their team rankings, seeing as only one of them clearly just goes by sum of all the individual recruits ratings, and the rest have complicated "proprietary" formulas... So I was doing some research and realized just how complicated and in some cases stupid (looking at you 247) some of these formulas are. It seems to me the most common sense would be to add up the ratings of each of your recruits and most points wins, right!? You should get credit for the overall value added to your team. So going through the services and doing just that, this NIU 2020 class comes in at 2nd or 3rd in the MAC across the board. Just found that very interesting considering some of the services using their "formula" have NIU as low as 5th, with teams like Toledo who signed 8 fewer guys at a barely a higher avg coming in 1st. NIU also has 4 more 3 star recruits than anyone else in the MAC, yet still isn't considered to have a "top class"

It’s so top heavy in points. It takes like 5 of our middle 3 star recruits to equal the points of toledos Lamy Constant. And what in the world is Toledo selling to guys to get a kid like Constant? He had offers to LSU,Michigan,Baylor,Florida,Neb,Minn,Purdue,Tenn,BC,Duke and plenty others.