‘23 AL OT Stanton Ramil (Michigan St. commit)

what? dude is the Ramil deal Holyfield.
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Correlation: teams who make/win the playoff tend to have a high number of former 4 and 5 star recruits.

Causation: having 4 and 5 stars are the reason these teams win.

What other conclusion can you draw from that data? Tell me the team that has rosters full of lower ranked talent that wins at the rate of the teams that have the higher rated talent.
 
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What other conclusion can you draw from that data? Tell me the team that has rosters full of lower ranked talent that wins at the rate of the teams that have the higher rated talent.
@sjt18 has already articulated one alternative explanation multiple times in this thread alone: perhaps the recruiting services rate players higher if they have offers from the top schools.

Look, we all want to sign as many highly-ranked players as possible, because those players will tend to be better. Tend is the key word. It’s simply ridiculous, however, to act as though star rating has some kind of ontological significance. These are football players, not restaurants.

There were as many guys who were rated 2 stars or unranked coming out of high school who went in the first round of the 2022 draft (6) as there were 5 stars, for crying out loud.
 

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