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That's the thing - it is a composite of all of them. It takes into account all the major ratings and rankings and gives you an overall idea of what the industry thinks of that prospect.

If a prospect is a two-star one place and a four-star at another place, the 247Composite paints the picture for you where the entire industry thinks that player fits in the broad scheme of things.

I'm thinking the same thing.

I think they're giving you the best of both worlds. You get the 247 rating plus you can now compare it to other ratings systems to get a better overall picture of the opinion, which many of us do anyway by googling to see what the other systems rate a player as. It's just putting all the information in one place so we don't have to google around and try to see what the other systems that we don't pay for are saying about a kid and them compare and contrast.

Am I understanding that correctly Kevin?

If so, I think it's great.

That's the way I understand it. There is always the argument of another site raring the player TN has committed higher/lower. This gives you 247 ranking vs what everyone else thinks. I think its pretty neat.

Don't want to get too technical/literal, but the composite isn't an average. We explain what the average is as well and show it below the composite. There are lower case "i" symbols next to all the rankings and ratings to explain them better.

The more rankings a player has across the industry, the higher the "Strength Bar" will be next to that player. Kind of like your cell service.

We only take into account actual rankings, so there won't be a zero factored in anywhere if that's what you are asking.

So if I'm understanding this correctly, the recruit with the highest total score (stars + ratings) across all services would have a composite score of 1.0000. Then the rest of the recruits would have a score like .9999, .9987, etc (essentially a percentage of that max score). The strength meter just represents how many recruiting services have ranked the player. So a JUCO player won't have as high a meter score due to ESPN's "no JUCO" policy. Since this composite score is NOT an average of the rankings, it appears on the surface that players ranked by all of the services would have higher composite scores than players only ranked by 3 of the services.

When will this be available. I tried it and kept getting an error message?

Another reason 247 is my favorite hangout. WHY go anywhere else?!! GO VOLS!

It's working now. May have been my wifi.

I don't think anyone has Bradley rated as a five-star prospect. He's a four-star on one site.

Good thing you didn't compare it to the BCS formula...