I noticed something interesting in the Naismith recruiting point guard rankings this season, and wanted to see what those of you who pay more attention than me think:

PG1: https://www.whatifsports.com/hd/RecruitProfile/Ratings.aspx?rid=4922641

775 overall rating, listed as an A- on the list page before you have his full ratings, ranked #5 overall.

PG2: https://www.whatifsports.com/hd/RecruitProfile/Ratings.aspx?rid=4922948

749 OVR, listed as an A. Ranked #9 overall

PG3: https://www.whatifsports.com/hd/RecruitProfile/Ratings.aspx?rid=4922627
797 OVR, A, #10 ranking.

Just curious how the system ranks players by position in case anyone's done a deep dive, and I'd also have thought the A/A- rating thing was straight overall-rating-based, without any subtlety in it... and would go hand in hand with rankings (ie- how can an A- player be the highest-rated when there are 2 As?) . For the record, I'd go 3-2-1 in my personal order, but they could all play for me.

The recruit rankings were inherited from the previous recruiting system and I don't believe they ever changed how they are calculated.

When 3.0 came out, the recruit overall rating and the other level 1 ratings were introduced. I remember Seble did some tweaking on how these ratings were actually calculated during Beta after some feedback. For example, he reduced the value of Durability to calculate Physical rating. I'm gonna guess that the overall rating wasn't necessarily set to match up exactly with recruit rankings but they're going to be very close.

interesting. thanks.