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Message: [QUOTE="javadoc, post: 4026767, member: 338"] Two takeaways: [LIST=1] [*]SU and Wake at the bottom of the list. Wake is solid and all our conference games have gone down to the wire (and we have been out-gaining everyone). How predictive and valuable are the ratings? [*]I don't think the ratings factor in portal/transfers. Perhaps the "star ratings" by themselves are not reliable predictors, if alternative sources of talent can affect team success significantly. [/LIST] Bottom line, not arguable, these ratings start as proxies for offers, and are adjusted to reflect business priorities for the authoring service. There is no evaluation component from the "recruiting analysts" at the paid sites. Your trust and dependence on these artificial numbers reflects your trust in the algorithm that maps offers to a score, and then the overrides that are applied to satisfy customer bases. "But we're last in the ACC according to 247!" You're an imbecile. [/QUOTE]