Great job! I think many writers will want to use your data. Send it to Jeff, tell him to use it in an article and to forward it to whoever else might want to use it in an article.

I noticed that there was at least one first rounder that you could not find a ranking for. I don’t know how you handled that, but I would have just omitted him from the study, so zero stars and not counted in the denominator.

The average star rating for the first rounders…

3.677419

The average star rating for the second rounders…

3.25

The average star rating for the third rounders…

2.964286

Definitely looks like there’s a correlation here. Again, I’m sure there’s exceptions to the rule. But looks like the rule stands. The recruiting star ratings have a correlation to draft round.

Kline’s a 4-5 star guy, so good for us.

Juancho, look forward to your next post/further research.

Marvin Jones will be a starter by his second year.

Got to run, but did a quick check on the CBS website. There are 32 players listed for Cal. Some of the draftees are listed (Anger, Swartz) but not Kendricks. Didn’t know that Forsett is now a free agent, so he is not listed.

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/playersearch?SCHOOL=California

A quick check of the number of current NFL players from some other schools –

Alabama — 28
Florida — 33
USC — 40

Would have liked to have checked a few more, such as LSU and Ohio State, but don’t have time now..

Go Bears!

California: 6
Oregon: 4
Stanford: 4
Arizona: 3
USC: 3
Arizona State: 2
Colorado: 2
Washington: 2
Oregon State: 1
Utah: 1

@Gobears – cbssportsline.com has a link that shows NFL active roster by school. Right now, we have 32 (including Anger and Schwartz but not the others from this draft).

Maybe with that website revealed, Juancho, our number cruncher extraordinaire, can yearly indicate the average NFL draft round number of the top 10 schools to provide additional information to determine which college programs are developing the most and best players for the NFL.

However, I think the study I asked him to think about doing (average number of stars ranking out of high school by draft round number, to see if there is any correlation between stars and NFL evaluation of college performance, would be a much more important study. I don’t think a study of high school star rankings for pro bowlers would be helpful, as it wouldn’t show any comparison of those average stars to anything else, unless Juancho wanted to compare the average pro bowl stars to the average star rankings of all players in the NFL, a humongous task to complete.