Author: Kyle Francis

One of the most challenging parts of creating this annual guide is trimming the list down to a manageable number of prospects. In the spirit of full disclosure, the team already has a list of players that we plan to add to our volume two guide that will publish after most teams have completed spring ball. One of the most significant difficulties we face is watching all of the freshmen that we are assigned. We will gather as much information as possible from each team’s spring practices and make some updates to the overall ranks and add players in line for substantial work this season. In this article series, each team member will outline which players were the toughest omissions we made from volume one of the ‘21 guide. (Primary evaluator)

One of the best things about our team is that we have six team members to share ideas with, debate, and get a consensus ranking on players. For the third consecutive year, we decided to break the player pool into specific conferences and divisions with each analyst being responsible for the same group as previous years. We believe the continuity in that evaluation is helpful and is aided by our team’s size to test our evaluations and hypotheses against. All of the incoming freshmen are randomly divided up and dispersed to each team member to evaluate. This article series will provide a window into each analyst’s minds and processes, and our aim is to better inform the readers about players who we had strong feelings about this cycle.