OP is a ballsack for posting a link and then leaving town
I am the OP. I had no intention of bugging out after the post, since the whole point was to have some basketball discussion. Every time I tried to post again I would get an error message saying that as a free user I could not post again so soon???
I'm assuming that this is some sort of fix for the chinese spam attacks of a year ago.
It's unfortunate that people got so worked up over the rosters. I'll explain a bit, and since I assume I won't be able to post again without opening another new account, I'll be as thorough as necessary.
These ratings are based almost 100% on recruiting rankings (out of HS) and experience level... nothing else. Tennessee, for example, has zero top 100 ranked players on it's roster and only 2 players who received a 4-star rating by more than 1 of the 3 main (free) recruiting services.
Obviously, I think Tennessee will have a very good team next season, but I'm not trying to give an opinion based Top 25. If that was my goal, it would look much like the ones you can already find online in many places.
This is an attempt to give a unique roster perspective. I often have read my preseason magazine and wondered "How high was that kid rated out of HS", so I would look him up. Same thing with junior college players, but it's more difficult to find rankings for JC players. My rosters have the RSCI Top 100 ranking (if there was one) right there beside the kids name. If not in the Top 100, I give the star rating from the 3 main services. So a 3,3,3 means that all three services rated the kid a 3 star prospect.
We've been doing this for years for our college hoops fantasy league. Over time it evolved and we found average production levels for each recruiting level as frosh, soph, junior and senior. Eventually one of the guys had the idea to rate the rosters in effort to discover which coaches accomplished more with less and vice versa.
Beilein is one who's team very consistently outperforms his roster rating. I like Michigan, because I think Beilein is an awesome coach. I feel that I can quantify just how awesome he is because I know just how much he outperforms his level of recruits.
Honestly, I don't think more explanation is necessary on a dedicated college hoops site. I would have thought that most college hoops nuts would think this kind of thing at least somewhat interesting. If not, that's cool too.
