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Message: [QUOTE="Powellfan, post: 5152222, member: 4819"] I was curious to see what the variance between recruiting services were this year, given that we have three to choose from (IL, Prep Lacrosse and NLF). I think it's a good thing when the publications don't agree with each other, or else we would probably just assume one was copying the other. There was some fascinating disagreements here, especially with some highly ranked players. Across all three pubs, Faison and Gillis are the 1st and 2nd ranked recruits. But after that, a wide range of opinions exist. I used the IL rankings as the "baseline" given that they are the most established, although that's mostly due to Xanders, who left for Prep Lacrosse. NLF has some issues given that they only focus on "their" club teams, but I think they are still helpful to have in here. They posted rankings for 120 players, but after the first 100, I didn't consider them unless they were also ranked by one of the other two pubs. Some of the players that stood out to me are: Cooper Brozek (A, Deerfield) - IL's third ranked player was ranked 5th by Ty, but 14th by NLF. AJ Theodorkakos (D, Penfield) - Ranked 4th by IL, but an astounding 18th by Ty and 21st by NLF. Teddy Frisoli (A, St. Sebastian's) - ranked 3rd by Ty came in at 11th for IL and 9th by NLF. Ethan Bramoff (LSM, St. Anthony's) - was NLF's top ranked player to start the summer, but he suffered an injury and fell to fourth when they redid their rankings. He comes at 14th for both IL and Ty. Like nyclax pointed out, Jace Banks (A, The Hill School) comes at 4th for Ty, and 6th for NLF, but only 21st for IL. Hunter Mezzatesta (G, Yorktown) was the 3rd ranked player according to NLF, but was ranked 8th by IL and 10th by Ty. It feels like most times two pubs will agree with each other, with an outlier, but there are players that appear all across the ranking spectrum. Of players ranked by all three pubs, Reese Pionket (LSM, Epsicopal) and Billy Weller (M, Deerfield) and John Balsamo (A, Chaminade) seems to have the biggest variance among opinions - Pioket comes in at 35th, 69th and 109th. Weller comes in as 29th, 57th and 114th. Balsamo, 91st, 45th and 23rd. All three pubs rank IL's top 39, but neither Ty or NLF rank number 40, Kevin Piffath (D, Malvern Prep). Other players ranked by IL but not the other two were, no. 62 JP Maggio (LSM, IMG), no. 78 Brody Helton (M, Bedford), no. 86 Andrew Pascarella (D, Lambert), no. 87 Grant Braburn (A, Penn Manor), no. 90. Hunter Thompson (A, Holderness), no. 94 Mac Cronin (D, St. John's), no. 97 Griffin O'Sullivan (A, Gill St. Bernard) and no. 100 (Bigel Strazzini (D, Rye). Ty had seven players not ranked by the other two, while NLF had 12 (excluding the players ranked over 100). Henry Metz (A, McDonough) is mister consistency, he's ranked 7th across all publications. James Whitehorse (A, Salisbury) stood out for being consistently ranked, despite being in the 90s (92, 98 and 96). When you get that far down the list the variance goes way up. For instance, Blake Farnsworth (D, St Anne's Belfield) is ranked 99th, 68th and 38th. Out of the 100 players ranked by IL, 66 of them were ranked by all three publications. Of the 131 total players ranked St. Anthony's has the most with five, followed by Deerfield, Brunswick, St. Sebastian's, Lawrenceville and Episcopal who all have four. For the longest time we only had Inside Lacrosse to rely on for recruiting insight. It's nice to see other publications contribute. Should be interesting to see who was more "right" in the next few years, especially given the differences in opinion. [/QUOTE]

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