re: On3 Ratings

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What does that even mean? Unless you can see into the future, a theary is as good as it gets, better than a WAG.

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Just use players entering ranking only

The only way I can make sense of it is it looks like they are rewarding the biggest net improvement. If a team loses 30 players with a net average of 70 and replaces them with 30 players with a net average of 71, then you improved your average per player rating by 1. If you lost 30 players with an average of 60 and you replaced with an average rating of 65 you improved your average rating by 5 and are ranked higher, even though your total rating of new players is still lower. They factor total number of players in there somewhere too,

I get that they are trying to grade net gains and losses, but what about a team that loses 30 to graduation and the draft and only loses 5 to the portal and replaces with 10 from the portal. According to this rating they have a net gain. If you are going to award gains, then only award gains, if you are going to punish losses, punish all losses and not just portal losses.

You can do this calculation yourself. List how many of the 30 we lost to the portal were regrettable and how many coming in can make a big impact.
I see us losing 3-4 good players…mostly unproven receivers. Conversely I also believe we are adding 8-9 impact players in positions of great need…mostly QB and OL players.
So no matter how this class is rated by pundits, we will have more talent on offense this coming season and better coaching. And we have replaced the lost receivers. QB play, OL, and coaching will be much improved…and give the defense a break. The defense was on the field too much last season!
We will miss Monsoor Delane on the back end of the defense, but hopefully someone steps up.
I think we win at least 3 or 4 more games this year, then build from there.
Kiffin is the first coach hire I have believed in in a very long time. Wanted CEO to be the real deal, however I wasn’t sold on him. Kiffin can recruit AND coach. Just needs to keep himself out of trouble!

It's another worthless "metric" created for clicks. Most are heavily based on assumptions made by soi-disant experts (people paid to blather).