Which scouting site has best evaluations?

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Pengy65

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Question for all you recruiting experts. Out of Scout, Rivals and ESPN--which site do you think does the best at rating recruits?

For example, Isaac Hayes is listed as 3* on Scout, but not listed in top 69 at his position. Rivals has him 3*, and 34th OG. ESPN has him 4*, 116th overall and 6th OG.

I know stars are just relative to each site, but to have such a variance in positional ranking makes me wonder which is most accurate. :confused
 

The correct answer for many is dependent upon which one ranks your class higher that particular year.
 

It could also depend on the quality of the people doing the evaluating and how much time they spend analyzing a particular recruit. I have no idea who is the best, but I like how espn presents their evaluations. They scout a recruit and provide analysis of his strengths and weaknesses as a player, so you see their reasoning behind their rating. That said, I have a Rivals membership, because all I care about is stars and bcs offers.
 

It probably differs regionally. They're only as good as the quality of their personnel in that area.
 

MinnySunDevil said:
It probably differs regionally. They're only as good as the quality of their personnel in that area.
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This is a very good point. For that reason, 247sports is a great up and coming site. They really do a good job of evaluating the talent nation wide, and there isn't a southern bias to the site like there is with Rivals and to a lesser extent Scout. ESPN is trash IMO; they just piggy-back off of Scout, and there is a huge bias towards the SEC and the players in the Under-Armor AA game because ESPN sponsors the event.

If I had to rank each site's evaluating ability it would go:
1)247sports
2) Rivals
3) Scout
4) ESPN

The only drawback to 247 is that they are very new and some teams don't have a home site yet...I think Minnesota might be one of them, but I am not sure. That site will be dominant within the next year, all of the good analysts have/are in the process of leaving Scout and Rivals and going to 247sports.
 



In terms of who's ratings I trust the most it would be

Rivals

Scout/ESPN

247

However to my knowledge Rivals still doesn't have a true Midwest analyst and there's definitely a southern bias. Also ESPN actually has the best write ups for players and they actually discuss a players' strengths and weaknesses but I feel that they tend to talk everyone up so while the ESPN evals are great for learning about individual players (especially ones you're unfamiliar with) they don't really do a great job of comparing players. I've never really trusted Scout for whatever reason
 






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