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To Fellow TBS'ers: Re-Ranking Recruiting Classes Survey Request

I know who you are and I know more are out here.

I want to start a re-ranking of graduating/turning professional/departing players from UW. If anyone is interested please let me know in this thread. All we will be doing is re-ranking players based on their play at UW during their career, however long or short it may be. This will likely take place sometime before Signing Day, it will just be a survey and it shouldn't take too long to finish.

If we could get 20 people that would be awesome, we can do this going forward for other classes as well when they exhaust their eligibility.
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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,676 Swaye's Wigwam
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,098
    How could I not be in? We know that my eyes are better than most ...

    PGOS Summary: Dripping sarkasm
  • Dennis_DeYoung
    Dennis_DeYoung Member Posts: 14,754
    Me and the other members of Styx are in.
  • kh83
    kh83 Member Posts: 596
  • BayDawg
    BayDawg Member Posts: 1,623
    Im in. I might suck at it.
  • Passion
    Passion Member Posts: 4,622
    Sure. Can we have a separate category for how their hips have evolved?
  • CokeGreaterThanPepsi
    CokeGreaterThanPepsi Member Posts: 7,646
    I'm keeping a list, this will likely be done around mid-January... @Swaye, I am assuming you don't want to do this survey and you just want your royalties?

    I know there are more of you out there who want to do this.... SHOW YOURSELVES. And technically, this is not TBS as we will be evaluating players over 18 years old, so pedobear (as much as I love him) is not needed.
  • H_D
    H_D Member Posts: 6,098

    I'm keeping a list, this will likely be done around mid-January... @Swaye, I am assuming you don't want to do this survey and you just want your royalties?

    I know there are more of you out there who want to do this.... SHOW YOURSELVES. And technically, this is not TBS as we will be evaluating players over 18 years old, so pedobear (as much as I love him) is not needed.

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  • CokeGreaterThanPepsi
    CokeGreaterThanPepsi Member Posts: 7,646
    @GrundleStiltzkin‌ you lazy bastard, you know you are going to do this. I'll send you the survey when the day comes.
  • claycha
    claycha Member Posts: 662
    I will try not to suck at it.
  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,676 Swaye's Wigwam
    Thinking of who actually makes earnest posts on the TBS board and I came up with a couple of names who you might want to nudge: TTJ, Roaddawg, DNC, WhatshouldIcareabout.

    Not trying to slight anyone through omission. Those are just a few names that popped into my head.
  • Doogles
    Doogles Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,726 Founders Club
  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,739 Founders Club

    I'm keeping a list, this will likely be done around mid-January... @Swaye, I am assuming you don't want to do this survey and you just want your royalties?

    I know there are more of you out there who want to do this.... SHOW YOURSELVES. And technically, this is not TBS as we will be evaluating players over 18 years old, so pedobear (as much as I love him) is not needed.

    Royalties is all I want. I am terrible with hip swivel, and thus would be useless in this survey.
  • CokeGreaterThanPepsi
    CokeGreaterThanPepsi Member Posts: 7,646
    Come on, Swaye! You're just saying how you think they performed at UW. Has nothing to do with when they were HS'ers or anything like that. All about their time at UW.
  • FreeChavez
    FreeChavez Member Posts: 3,223
    I'm out, I know about as much about evaluating football talent as ektard
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter

    @GrundleStiltzkin‌ you lazy bastard, you know you are going to do this. I'll send you the survey when the day comes.

    Been out shooting guns all day. I'm in.
  • kh83
    kh83 Member Posts: 596
    Will there be a standardized system for us to use, or are we to go off our own individual ideas?
  • CokeGreaterThanPepsi
    CokeGreaterThanPepsi Member Posts: 7,646
    I'll be sending out an online survey with a list of all the players that are leaving either by graduation/turning pro or dismissed/transferring. All you will have to do is rate their contribution to the UW football program on a scale of 0-5.

    I'm doing 0-5 to compare how they came in to UW rated by Scout.com, but the initial HS ranking should have no bearing on how you rate them. Just base your rating off of their performance at UW alone, nothing else.
  • CokeGreaterThanPepsi
    CokeGreaterThanPepsi Member Posts: 7,646
    That is exactly what I am thinking Dennis. I am just adding the zero because I believe there should be a penalty for bringing in a guy like Garrett Gilliland or Nathan Dean (who, imo, are 0's) to your program only to find out they really, really, really suck.

  • H_D
    H_D Member Posts: 6,098

    kh83 said:

    Will there be a standardized system for us to use, or are we to go off our own individual ideas?

    We've talked about this before and I had suggested that, a long time ago, I think it was Dick Baird (it was some coach) who told me they used a 5-point system for ranking careers...

    I'll do it for 2010 since everyone's done (save for Dry Eyes) now:

    1 - Did not contribute in any meaningful way (Montana, Lagafuaina, Pelluer, Gilliland, Burnett, Fogerson, Kearse)
    2 - Career backup, poor starter (Criste, Atoe, Potoa'e, Stevenson, Callier, Kohler, Campbell, Hartvigson)
    3 - Solid starter, maybe honorable mention All Conference (Timu, Ducre, Hatchie, Smith, Tanigawa, Fuimaono, Riva, Shirley)
    4 - All Conference player, first or second team (Parker, A.Hudson)
    5 - All American on any team (Kikaha)

    You can't really rate guys who had to retire from injuries (Porter) or guys who didn't make it in (Young, Waters).

    The guys who are hard to rank here are Shirley (weird career), Atoe (sort of a 2.5) and both Sean Parker and Andrew Hudson (sort of 3.5s).
    I think the hardest ranking will be those in the 2-3 range. For the 1 and 4-5, those are pretty clear, but those guys that are starters without impressive "external" accolades I would submit that they need to be looked at in context of who they were competing with for playing time.

    Probably the best example that I can think of for the negative of this is the secondary of the 2005-2008 era. Yeah they were starters, but they were the best of a very bad situation. Some of those guys I would hesitate to even give them a 2 as a "poor starter" because if they were in most other (then) Pac-10 programs they would have not seen a lot of playing time.

    Keeping with the shitty secondary example, how do you rank a guy like Dashon Goldson? He earned honorable mention Pac-10, but his career was somewhat limited by injury and the all around shittyness of those around him. He was probably better than his stats and team record indicated (quite honestly) as evidenced by how his career "blew up" in the NFL.
  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680

    I'll be sending out an online survey with a list of all the players that are leaving either by graduation/turning pro or dismissed/transferring. All you will have to do is rate their contribution to the UW football program on a scale of 0-5.

    I'm doing 0-5 to compare how they came in to UW rated by Scout.com, but the initial HS ranking should have no bearing on how you rate them. Just base your rating off of their performance at UW alone, nothing else.

    Felix Sweetman is a 17 on this scale.

  • Dennis_DeYoung
    Dennis_DeYoung Member Posts: 14,754

    That is exactly what I am thinking Dennis. I am just adding the zero because I believe there should be a penalty for bringing in a guy like Garrett Gilliland or Nathan Dean (who, imo, are 0's) to your program only to find out they really, really, really suck.

    Well, I think 1 captures that because it's 'didn't contribute'. It's hard to know why people didn't contribute; in the case of Gililland, everyone was convinced he was the next CORD TENNYSON™ when he started as a true frosh. Then he got flushed because he sucked.

    With Dean, supposedly the guy with more physical talent than Banner and Garnett just lost his boner for football.

    The question is, with guys like Chris Young, do you give them a 0 because you wasted effort in recruiting them and they didn't come? Or do you just ignore it?
  • MrsPetersen
    MrsPetersen Member Posts: 724
    edited December 2014

    The question is, with guys like Chris Young, do you give them a 0 because you wasted effort in recruiting them and they didn't come? Or do you just ignore it?

    I think it might be important to grade that, wasting time recruiting/signing guys like Chris Young and Andrew Basham (and paying them money in a coffee cup) is important because you could have ended up with another player in their place that may have contributed. IDK, maybe never set foot on campus = 0 while you get a 1 just for being on campus, much like you get poonts on the SAT just for figuring out how to spell your name?
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,098
    I think 0 makes sense for the reasons that Mrs. Petersen noted ... if you're wasting your time recruiting them, then in theory that is a spot not only on the roster, but energies that could be used in recruiting for better players.

    I also think that for guys that fall between 2 and 3, or 3 and 4, etc. that it makes sense to have partial grades in the 2.5 or 3.5 range.

    Yes, that makes it a little more subjective but I also think that it is more accurate in placing someone that is somewhere between the two spots in between then either under/over valuing the player.
  • section8
    section8 Member Posts: 1,581

    kh83 said:

    Will there be a standardized system for us to use, or are we to go off our own individual ideas?

    We've talked about this before and I had suggested that, a long time ago, I think it was Dick Baird (it was some coach) who told me they used a 5-point system for ranking careers...

    I'll do it for 2010 since everyone's done (save for Dry Eyes) now:

    1 - Did not contribute in any meaningful way (Montana, Lagafuaina, Pelluer, Gilliland, Burnett, Fogerson, Kearse)
    2 - Career backup, poor starter (Criste, Atoe, Potoa'e, Stevenson, Callier, Kohler, Campbell, Hartvigson)
    3 - Solid starter, maybe honorable mention All Conference (Timu, Ducre, Hatchie, Smith, Tanigawa, Fuimaono, Riva, Shirley)
    4 - All Conference player, first or second team (Parker, A.Hudson)
    5 - All American on any team (Kikaha)

    You can't really rate guys who had to retire from injuries (Porter) or guys who didn't make it in (Young, Waters).

    The guys who are hard to rank here are Shirley (weird career), Atoe (sort of a 2.5) and both Sean Parker and Andrew Hudson (sort of 3.5s).
    I think you have to account for the retirements since their initial ratings coming into UW contributed to the overall class ranking at that time. I'd maybe include them in the "1" or possibly "2" category depending on how much playing time they had before retirement.