Playing with the 247 Class Calculator gave LSU 300.46 for full class

What about the other 3 spots

Keep a screen shot of it. When they do the last player rankings take a look at it again. I’m interested to see how much ratings change for players senior seasons.

They have a limited number of 5* recruits. When they hit that limit it doesn’t matter what your rating is, you are now a 4*.
The #32 recruit is probably the same talent level as the #33 recruit.
There probably isn’t a big difference in team average between the 2.

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They have a limited number of 5* recruits.

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Yea, they say they only have 32 5 stars to mirror the NFL draft, but that's narrow minded, IMO. If a guy is a 5 star talent, he should be awarded the star. Anyway, they say they have a rating of 101 to 110, and that is for elite of the elite type players. I've never seen one rated that high, have you? Seen the 1.0, like Lawrence from Clemson, but never the 1.1. I'd have to think a guy like Herschel Walker or Marcus Dupree coming out of HS would be one of those.

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Can you please explain how they calculate a class? Plus, if you know, how rivals calculates their class

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I am not sure about Rivals, but historically, every service does it differently. I think most of them limit the number of recruits they count in some way.
For 247, it is easy to determine what they are doing when you open up the class calculator ( under the more button on the commit list ). for example, Roy and Boutte both have the same rating of 0.9768. Roy is somehow considered the 4th ranked player and contributes 26.18 to the class score while Boutte only contributes 25.07 with the same score. Clowney and White are very similar. Only a 0.0006 difference in player score, but a 1.64 difference in class score contribution.

In effect, 247 gives full credit for each schools top recruit with each spot below getting less credit. by the time you get to the 20-25 spots, there is much less impact upon the class score. Gaye only contributes 1.0 to the class score in position 22.
The key to a big score is having as many players as possible with scores above 0.95 and as few 3* as possible. Alabama had the top class score last year with only three 5* while Georgia had five 5*. Alabama had 13 players with scores above 0.95. You can not avoid all 3* because Kickers, punters, LS, and FB all top out at 3*.

I remember some service just looked at the top 15 people in your class since they figured that was a reasonable guess about how many would see the field. USC, in 2004, had 5 players ranked #1 for their position and 9 players ranked in the top 3 for their position for an 18 signee class. Some stupid service did not have them rated as highly as teams who were signing 25 or 30. I think that caused everyone to begin limiting. Dang, half of the class was in the top 3 for their position and they were not ranked #1. Heck even 247 had them slightly behind Fla St because they had 7 extra 3* players in the class.

On the contrary side, LSU has had great luck with some of the 3* position players signed including Justin Jefferson, Lloyd Cushenberry, Foster Moreau, D.J. Chark, John David Moore, Duke Riley, Deion Jones, Jalen Mills, etc.

I think we've got a shot with phillip webb also.

Clemson's class is absolutely nuts. They already have six 5* players are are the favorites for the #1 & #4 overall players.

Eight 5* players and the 4 best players in the class. I wonder if anything like that has happened before.