Palmetto Proving Grounds

247Composite Rating

The 247Composite Rating is a proprietary algorithm that compiles prospect "rankings" and "ratings" listed in the public domain by the major media recruiting services. It converts average industry ranks and ratings into a linear composite index capping at 1.0000, which indicates a concensus No. 1 prospect across all services.

The 247Composite Rating is the industry's most comprehensive and unbiased prospect ranking and is also used to generate 247Sports Team Recruiting Rankings.

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All major media services share an equal percentage in the 247Composite Rating.

The composite index equally weights this percentage among the services that participate in a ranking for that specific prospect.

A composite strength meter, indicated by red bars, illustrates the total number of industry services that have ranked the prospect. A full strength meter indicates the prospect has been ranked by all industry services participating in the composite.

All industry services have a different philosophy on number of "stars" distributed with each class. The 247Composite Rating assigns stars based on an approximate average distribution of stars from the industry.

Here on TBS

Below is a link to the South Carolina 2013 commit list, which now features prospect's 247Composite rankings (what we will exclusively calculate into the 247Sports team rankings.)

http://southcarolina.247sports.com/Recruit/Commits/2013/Football

Here also is a link to Shaq Roland's profile page from 2012. As you can see, he was No. 52 in our Top247, but checked in at No. 40 in the 247Composite.

http://247sports.com/Player/Shaq-Roland-1736

This is a better way for you guys to keep up with recruits given all of the rankings out there. Now you can have it all in one spot. It also is better for the team rankings.