It is still around, and is still an interesting, different way to look at recruiting. They only update their data every couple weeks, though, and they are due for an update tomorrow. When the do, I'd guess that Ohio is probably now ranked about #70 or so in the country, not a bad start.
One thing you can do is look at a list of all the offers that Ohio has made, and the "value" of each player, value being determined by who has offered that player: http://tinyurl.com/mdbk435
Another thing you can do at that page is see who Ohio has lost players to: Kentucky - 3 Miami (Fl) - 2 Pitt - 2 Michigan - 1 Louisville - 1 S. Carolina - 1 W. Michigan - 1 Toledo - 1
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RE: Ranked by Offers Website
Posted: 7/6/2015 6:45:12 PM
Rank by offers is starting to have some real data, now, but they have made some huge changes to the scoring system, changes that make it entirely useless for evaluating MAC recruiting. Last year all schools were worth between 60 and 85 points. This year there is little value given to non P5 schools, or lower P5 schools, for that matter.
This year most MAC schools are in the 7-20 range, and they only gave 1 point for a Miami offer and 7 points for an AF or EMU offer. On average a MAC offer is worth about 20% as much as it was worth last year, while top offers are still worth the same, but the effect is very uneven. When you have a system where an Ohio offer is worth 17 points, while a Miami offer is worth 1 point, GIGO applies. (That is, Garbage in, Garbage out). Is Solich better at evaluating talent than Martin? Maybe. Is he 17 times better? Not a chance.
Their ratings for top teams are probably fine, but their ratings for non-P5 teams are now meaningless, so I won't bother linking to it anymore.
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RE: Ranked by Offers Website
Posted: 7/7/2015 5:29:25 PM
I always thought it was a good concept that the site offered but you clearly could see that any MAC school that signed a player or two with multiple BCS offers was going to rank highest no matter what the rest of the class looked like. Now that's only going to be multiplied.
