RankByOffers.Com Has Michigan Commit Myles Sims Ranked As The 9th Highest Recruit In 2018 Class
This is a pretty interesting angle on how to rank football recruits in the country. This site ranks the players by the quality and quantity of their offers.
http://www.rankbyoffers.com/2018fbplayers/
Here are the notable Michigan Commits and Targets in the rankings:
9. Myles Sims: 36 FBS offers, 19 Top 25 offers
11. Mustapha Muhammad: 34 FBS offers, 21 Top 25 offers
31. Emil Ekiyor: 34 FBS offers, 15 Top 25 offers
42. Jeremy Ruckert: 30 FBS offers, 17 Top 25 offers
43. Kamryn Babb: 30 FBS offers, 17 Top 25 offers
58. Jahan Dotson: 28 FBS offers, 16 Top 25 offers
70. Ronnie Perkins: 31 FBS offers, 14 Top 25 offers
77. D'Shawn Jamison: 31 FBS offers, 12 Top 25 offers
102. Amon Ra St Brown: 25 FBS offers, 14 Top 25 offers
139. Michael Thompson: 23 FBS offers, 12 Top 25 offers
143. Christian Turner: 27 FBS offers, 5 Top 25 offers
156. Micah Parsons: 20 FBS offers, 14 Top 25 offers
203. Tyler Friday: 20 FBS offers, 9 Top 25 offers
206. Joe Milton: 23 FBS offers, 7 Top 25 offers
210. Gemon Green: 24 FBS offers, 6 Top 25 offers
215. Shayne Simon: 21 FBS offers, 8 Top 25 offers
230. Daniel Faalele: 19 FBS offers, 9 Top 25 offers
278: Otis Reese: 16 FBS offers, 10 Top 25 offers
289. James Graham: 18 FBS offers, 9 Top 25 offers
325. Tyler Shough: 17 FBS offers, 6 Top 25 offers
524. Aidan Hutchinson: 13 FBS offers, 2 Top 25 offers
584. Ryan Hayes: 11 FBS offers, 2 Top 25 offers
603. Jalen Mayfield: 16 FBS offers, 1 Top 25 offer
704. German Green: 10 FBS offers, 2 Top 25 offers
True, but it is another data point to help look at player rankings holistically. I don't know that Rank By Interest would be less useful in that than Rank By Offers.
On the opposite side of what you said, some recruits only report offers of schools that they are actually considering, while others report every school that sends them a brochure in the mail. That's how you end up with guys like Najee Harris listing around 15 offers, and 3 star guys reporting 70+.
Nice idea in theory, but it's pretty pointless when schools can't comment on the recuits and verify.
and players like otis reese who commit early and therefore almost certainly do not receive all the offers they wouldve gotten if they hadnt "firmly" committed early in the process. those type situations occur all the time. though clearly imperfect, i guess its still another interesting piece of data to have available for rabid fans
An offer from Ole Miss or S. Carolina is worth more than one from OSU or us.
An offer from S. Carolina means more than OSU?
Please explain.
....that makes no sense to me.
On another note - there are two reasons (IMO) which are much more important in discrediting the validity.
- Everyone doesn't have the same number of scholarships to offer. You could have great prospects without offers or good prospects WITH offers based on how many offers any particular school gives out - due to their space. I'm sure last year Michigan gave out more offers when we had way more scholarships AND position needs.
- Position need - we all have different recruiting needs, if we have 7 QBs coming back we're not going to give out as many QB offers as if we would if we had 2.
However, it is an interesting, lighthearted way to look at rankings...it's not that big of a deal in the grand scheme.
It's linked in the OP.
I assumed you meant it was worth more in that it came in an envelope with more dollar bills inside than ours did.
based on that. I'm going to giess Ole Miss offers have dropped in value.
http://www.rankbyoffers.com/teamweightings/
Looks like throwing out a ton of offers will really hurt you because you will lose points when they commit elsewhere, hence why Ole Miss or Sout Carolina could beat us. They are targeting a certain type of player in the southeast as opposed to Michigan recruiting nationwide.
The same thing hapens with expert rankings too. If kids are stuck in the middle of nowhere and dont go to camps they are unlikely to get heavily scouted by the ranking services either.
By no means should these rankings be considered definitive in any way, but I think they offer a useful data point that reflects what we often do anyways - "He's only a three star but look at his offer list!"
Does not really matter to me because I have seen film on the spider and as far as I am concerned this kid is a legit five star. Ask Harbaugh what he thinks about this kid Sims and watch him go silent and just grin. Michigan stole one hear jack.
I find these rankings interesting but nothing more than that. For starters as some have said, each offer has its own value however.
Secondly, some players don't get offers because schools don't think they have a real chance or the a kid is out of the schools league. For example JKP had more offers than DPJ, someting Donovan asked me about once.
With that said it is still interesting to see at the very least which kids at some point peaked the interest of top ranked schools.
I don't put much validity in this as a ranking system. It's more of a curiosity.
That said, it's interesting that even our lowest-"ranked" commits have offers from roughly 20-30% of FBS schools and multiple schools in the top 25. It really puts it into perspective when people bitch about "nobody" commits - even those guys are desired by a whole ton of schools we're competing with.
Oh yeah its definitely doesnt seem like a good skill ranking system. Just interesting to see who has the most offers and the most offers from top 25 teams. I think its too biased towards Quantity of offers over quality of offers.
One ranking that seems obviously off is Otis Reese ranked in the 200s.
Reese only has 16 offers but his offers are almost all powerhouse programs such as Michigan, Clemson, Alabama, Florida, LSU, Auburn, Louisville, USC, etc.
RBH.
RANK BY HARBAUGH.
GO BLUE!
Ekiyor would be a very close second if not the first. I do know Reese should be ranked just as high and in know way should he be the 278 player in any rankings. I am sure he has not fielded nearly as many offers as the others because of his committment to Michigan, as far back as last year. So I would say this site is flawed in a small way on where players should be ranked they may want to throw a few caveats out there for more accuracy.