So, with it being a slow and cold Saturday with no PSU football, AND with a lot of renewed bluster appearing on our board without a lot (or any) of fact behind it, I decided to start a little project.
I decided to take a look (by team) of ALL the recruits since 2010, where they were ranked, if they AA'd, # of AAs, if they made an NCAA final or won a championship and total number of finals and championships and put it in a spreadsheet. I'll clean that spreadsheet up in format and post it here shortly, if you want to take a look at it.
A couple of notes about the methodology:
I decided to take a look (by team) of ALL the recruits since 2010, where they were ranked, if they AA'd, # of AAs, if they made an NCAA final or won a championship and total number of finals and championships and put it in a spreadsheet. I'll clean that spreadsheet up in format and post it here shortly, if you want to take a look at it.
A couple of notes about the methodology:
- The cutoff was 2010 because that was really the year when I could gather the most reliable data. It is not easy gathering recruiting rankings prior to 2015 or so and prior to 2012 or so a lot of them were just weight class rankings although there are some Intermat - really hard to find - that rank all SRs regardless of weight class as far back as 2006 or so, but not all of them. I wanted to do wrestlers since Cael became HC at PSU, but it was too difficult, so I made 2010 the arbitrary cutoff as I was able to find and confirm all of the rankings (at least in one place). This probably hurt PSU a bit as we lost Taylor, Ruth, and Quentin but there's a lot of data so the effect is limited. It also saved me from making ranking decisions about guys like Wright and Grant Gambrall, where I could only find weight-class ranks, but also could find articles that said things like Gambrall is the top-ranked 171 in the nation ahead of Wright and another kid from IL, but what does that mean? Are they 10 and 11? Are they 5 and 25?
- Because of the above, I expect I made a mistake or two. Maybe Willie can look at it later and correct it. Sometimes there were conflicting rankings from different sources, but they were generally in the same ballpark. From 2010 to about 2015 I relied on Intermat mostly, then FLO, and then Rokfin when Willie got his Big Board back in 2020.
- Transfers in and out mess with the data, so you can accumulate credit only for AAs, Finals & NCs under your tenure. Any transfer out in the first year and any transfer in at the end of your career is removed. DeSanto and Lugo are counted for Iowa, as will Mesenbrink later, Suriano, Gross - no, Max Dean, and Eirman were not counted. Guys that were removed also include guys like Austin Blythe (football), Wyatt Henson, and Sam Sherlock - removed. Not enough data at their college to make their data relevant.
- I broke the stats down into 4 categories:
- Top 10 recruits
- Recruits ranked 10-20
- Recruits ranked 20-50
- Recruits ranked below 50 that AA'd.