re: Updated 4-year recruiting rankings for all 130 teams, where the SEC completely dominates

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If you want to compare talent by using recruiting rankings then look at the guys that play and that's it.

Don't look at recruiting rankings by themselves.

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That’s the whole point.. they aren’t looking at recruiting rankings by themselves.

S&P+ has three main pieces to their preseason rankings. All of these are intended to, as you said, “look at the players that play”.

The combination of the “recent history” and “returning production” parts indicates how successful next year’s returning starters will be.

The “recruiting” part indicates how successful next year’s new starters will be. That’s why it’s weighted towards recent recruits - highly rated players who were recruited 3-4 signing classes ago are more likely to already be included in the “recent history” and “returning production” parts of the formula.

In fact, the entire point of the article is that they just changed the way the S&P+ “recruiting” part of the ranking works. Previously, the only used two years worth of recruiting data and they didn’t include upperclassmen at all.

Yet there are still folks in this thread acting like the original article is actually a 4-year average recruiting ranking. It’s not, it’s actually a “projected new production for 2019” ranking. The OP (really SBNation) just posted a misleading title.