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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s worth saying out loud: a large portion of player rankings require payment just to be evaluated. Many athletes and families opt out because they value development and performance over purchasing a star rating. Within the sport, it’s widely understood how these rankings are generated.[/quote]

In the boys 2027, almost every single 4, 5 and top 100 player was committed before anyone else. Exceptions were exceptionally high gpa’s and personal connections. Schools rate players and reinforce those decisions with players slotting up or down. [/quote]

Those players would have already been highly sought after by top schools even before star and numerical ratings came out. Y'all are trying to understand how rankings, ratings, BIC invites, and early commitments are interconnected, but are overlooking the causal factor behind all of these: actually being good at lacrosse and/or demonstrating significant potential.[/quote]

The point is not they are good players but there are many players going unranked because they aren't seen or there are players ranked slightly below when they should be higher. The star system provided by IL provides a "go with IBM" decision. [/quote]

Nick Saban's comments recently on the Pat McAfee Show capture my general thoughts on star ratings.

"We never ever looked at how many stars a guy has because I think what you all need to do is look at who’s giving out the stars. They don’t know their ass from a handful of sand when it comes to what a football player is. So why would you as a coach depend on somebody who’s not even a coach evaluating players to give them stars?"[/quote]

It’s interesting because football tends to reevaluate stars based on who offers. With girls lax, this doesn’t happen.

Also interesting to see how off college football is ranking these kids (look at Indiana QB) and girls gets 1% of the time, money in evaluating.

So many busts in girls lax and unranked kids being studs. [/quote]

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