re: 5-year Average Stars Recruiting Rankings (all 119 teams)

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Sincere thanks for taking the time and effort for doing this list, but I must say that the overall average is mathematically meaningless. As BhamTigah pointed out, to get the accurate number representing the average number of stars, you'll have to total up the stars and divide by the number of players. Calculating the average the way you did, while serving as a good approximation, does not result in the correct value for the overall average.

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Feel free to do it that way, as you are correct ... to be exactly accurate, that would be the way to do it, it would just be very time consuming to do it that way.

What you will find, however, is the rankings will not change much, if at all, as the average stars will also not change much, if at all. There may be a +1/-1 flip flop in rankings here or there, but there will be no major changes. Try it for LSU and you'll see what I mean.

The way we did it is the easist way to do it with available information/numbers and it gets the same result (not to mention it is a lot easier for the average person to understand how the rankings were calculated).

And the average is not mathematically meaningless. An average is an average is an average is an average.