This is a follow-up to Matt’s post from Thursday in the thread “FNL weekend visitor list as confirmed (July28)”. I was out of town and had to wait until I was back to my big-boy computer to prepare this response. In Matt’s post, he listed the 54 top-400 Stanford recruits for 2012-2017 and tallied the counts by position.
In February I posted computations of percentiles by position. The percentiles for a position are based on 247 composite ratings of all recruits at that position that signed with a PAC-12 team or Notre Dame in the 2012-2017 classes. The idea of the percentiles is to assess how we did at signing the “available” talent at each position.
The mapping of 247 composite ratings to national ranks varies from year to year, but the cutoff for top-400 is always around .8800. Here are the percentiles corresponding to a rating of .8800 by position.
DB 68.1
DL 79.1
LB 66.6
OL 67.7
QB 60.0
RB 68.8
FB 85.3
TE 75.0
WR 70.3
The ratings and national ranks mask the variations in the services’ assessed talent levels across positions. A DL with a rating of .8800 is at the 79th percentile, while a LB with the same rating is at the 67th percentile.
Following are Stanford’s 62 top recruits for 2012-2017 as measured by position percentile. Each line shows the rank (within this group) by position percentile, the rank by 247 national rank (position on Matt’s list), and the position percentile. “XX” indicates that the recruit did not appear on Matt’s list. The list has 62 names in order to include all 54 of the names on Matt’s list. I added Fehoko to the list (his national rank was 157) and changed Kaumatule from TE to DL; he was recruited as a DL, IIRC.
1 1 99.8 OL Foster Sarell
2 2 99.5 OL Walker Little
3 7 99.4 TE Colby Parkinson
4 3 99.2 OL Kyle Murphy
5 6 98.2 OL Andrus Peat
6 9 98.2 TE Kaden Smith
7 5 97.9 DL Solomon Thomas
8 4 97.4 QB Davis Mills
9 8 97.3 OL Joshua Garnett
10 14 96.6 WR Trent Irwin
11 12 96.5 LB Noor Davis
12 15 95.5 LB Curtis Robinson
13 17 95.4 OL Casey Tucker
14 13 95.2 DB Alex Carter
15 19 95.0 DL Aziz Shittu
16 16 93.3 RB Barry J. Sanders
17 10 93.3 QB KJ Costello
18 18 92.5 RB Christian McCaffrey
19 11 92.3 QB Keller Chryst
20 23 92.1 WR Osiris St. Brown
21 21 91.6 DB Paulson Adebo
22 20 90.7 TE Dalton Schultz
23 22 90.2 DB Frank Buncom IV
24 31 89.5 DL Ryan Johnson
25 35 89.1 DL Luke Kaumatule
26 24 89.1 LB Peter Kalambayi
27 XX 88.9 WR Simi Fehoko
28 26 88.0 LB Bobby Okereke
29 39 87.2 DL Jordan Watkins
30 28 87.0 OL Clark Yarbrough
31 27 86.7 RB Connor Wedington
32 40 85.6 DB Treyjohn Butler
33 32 84.9 DB Brandon Simmons
34 36 84.1 OL Devery Hamilton
35 29 83.9 RB Sione Heimuli-Lund
36 30 82.7 LB Joey Alfieri
37 34 82.6 WR Francis Owusu
38 46 82.3 DL Michael Williams
39 38 82.2 OL Graham Shuler
40 25 82.0 QB Ryan Burns
41 45 81.3 DL Dalyn Wade-Perry
42 37 80.4 RB Cameron Scarlett
43 33 79.1 RB Bryce Love
44 41 78.6 DB Andrew Pryts
45 43 77.4 OL Brandon Fanaika
46 53 77.1 DL Austin Hooper
47 48 76.3 DB Ben Edwards
48 42 75.8 OL Nick Wilson
49 XX 75.5 DL Nathanael Lohn
50 44 75.3 LB Kevin Palma
51 49 75.0 DB Obi Eboh
52 XX 74.7 TE Greg Taboada
53 XX 73.9 DL Ikenna Nwafor
54 50 73.7 DB Justin Reid
55 47 72.6 OL Reilly Gibbons
56 51 72.4 DB Quenton Meeks
57 XX 71.0 TE Eric Cotton
58 XX 70.3 DL Thomas Schaffer
59 52 70.0 DB Sean Barton
60 XX 68.8 OL Nick Davidson
61 XX 68.5 TE Scooter Harrington
62 54 68.1 RB Trevor Speights
Here are the frequencies by position. The first number is Matt’s count, the second is the count from among the first 54 names on the above list.
OL 12, 11
DB 11, 9
RB 7, 6
DL 6, 10
LB 6, 6
TE 5, 4
QB 4, 4
WR 3, 4
This view makes our DL recruiting look considerably stronger and DB a bit less impressive.
In February I posted computations of percentiles by position. The percentiles for a position are based on 247 composite ratings of all recruits at that position that signed with a PAC-12 team or Notre Dame in the 2012-2017 classes. The idea of the percentiles is to assess how we did at signing the “available” talent at each position.
The mapping of 247 composite ratings to national ranks varies from year to year, but the cutoff for top-400 is always around .8800. Here are the percentiles corresponding to a rating of .8800 by position.
DB 68.1
DL 79.1
LB 66.6
OL 67.7
QB 60.0
RB 68.8
FB 85.3
TE 75.0
WR 70.3
The ratings and national ranks mask the variations in the services’ assessed talent levels across positions. A DL with a rating of .8800 is at the 79th percentile, while a LB with the same rating is at the 67th percentile.
Following are Stanford’s 62 top recruits for 2012-2017 as measured by position percentile. Each line shows the rank (within this group) by position percentile, the rank by 247 national rank (position on Matt’s list), and the position percentile. “XX” indicates that the recruit did not appear on Matt’s list. The list has 62 names in order to include all 54 of the names on Matt’s list. I added Fehoko to the list (his national rank was 157) and changed Kaumatule from TE to DL; he was recruited as a DL, IIRC.
1 1 99.8 OL Foster Sarell
2 2 99.5 OL Walker Little
3 7 99.4 TE Colby Parkinson
4 3 99.2 OL Kyle Murphy
5 6 98.2 OL Andrus Peat
6 9 98.2 TE Kaden Smith
7 5 97.9 DL Solomon Thomas
8 4 97.4 QB Davis Mills
9 8 97.3 OL Joshua Garnett
10 14 96.6 WR Trent Irwin
11 12 96.5 LB Noor Davis
12 15 95.5 LB Curtis Robinson
13 17 95.4 OL Casey Tucker
14 13 95.2 DB Alex Carter
15 19 95.0 DL Aziz Shittu
16 16 93.3 RB Barry J. Sanders
17 10 93.3 QB KJ Costello
18 18 92.5 RB Christian McCaffrey
19 11 92.3 QB Keller Chryst
20 23 92.1 WR Osiris St. Brown
21 21 91.6 DB Paulson Adebo
22 20 90.7 TE Dalton Schultz
23 22 90.2 DB Frank Buncom IV
24 31 89.5 DL Ryan Johnson
25 35 89.1 DL Luke Kaumatule
26 24 89.1 LB Peter Kalambayi
27 XX 88.9 WR Simi Fehoko
28 26 88.0 LB Bobby Okereke
29 39 87.2 DL Jordan Watkins
30 28 87.0 OL Clark Yarbrough
31 27 86.7 RB Connor Wedington
32 40 85.6 DB Treyjohn Butler
33 32 84.9 DB Brandon Simmons
34 36 84.1 OL Devery Hamilton
35 29 83.9 RB Sione Heimuli-Lund
36 30 82.7 LB Joey Alfieri
37 34 82.6 WR Francis Owusu
38 46 82.3 DL Michael Williams
39 38 82.2 OL Graham Shuler
40 25 82.0 QB Ryan Burns
41 45 81.3 DL Dalyn Wade-Perry
42 37 80.4 RB Cameron Scarlett
43 33 79.1 RB Bryce Love
44 41 78.6 DB Andrew Pryts
45 43 77.4 OL Brandon Fanaika
46 53 77.1 DL Austin Hooper
47 48 76.3 DB Ben Edwards
48 42 75.8 OL Nick Wilson
49 XX 75.5 DL Nathanael Lohn
50 44 75.3 LB Kevin Palma
51 49 75.0 DB Obi Eboh
52 XX 74.7 TE Greg Taboada
53 XX 73.9 DL Ikenna Nwafor
54 50 73.7 DB Justin Reid
55 47 72.6 OL Reilly Gibbons
56 51 72.4 DB Quenton Meeks
57 XX 71.0 TE Eric Cotton
58 XX 70.3 DL Thomas Schaffer
59 52 70.0 DB Sean Barton
60 XX 68.8 OL Nick Davidson
61 XX 68.5 TE Scooter Harrington
62 54 68.1 RB Trevor Speights
Here are the frequencies by position. The first number is Matt’s count, the second is the count from among the first 54 names on the above list.
OL 12, 11
DB 11, 9
RB 7, 6
DL 6, 10
LB 6, 6
TE 5, 4
QB 4, 4
WR 3, 4
This view makes our DL recruiting look considerably stronger and DB a bit less impressive.
