Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
IL doesn't seem to know who is committed. My kids club team has a ton of committed kids. IL shows about 25% of who is committed.

I’m familiar with a few of the top HS teams and top 2024 club teams on LI. IL has missed no commits on any of the 2024 club teams. IL is only missing one commit regarding all the HS teams that I have knowledge of. And that player isn’t what you’d call “top tier”, so my guess is they may miss “lower profile” players. Doubt they miss any higher profile kids. Does that make sense, based on your experience?


How does Inside Lacrosse assign stars to the player?

It represents a combination of Ty Xanders personal opinion and natural bias toward MD prep kids, and the frequency in which he sees a particular player. If he doesn’t see/evaluate a player, player has no shot at making his rankings (obviously). He doesn’t get to any LI games unless it’s playoff games. If your kid gets to a playoff game or two, that could be huge, if he does well. Conversely, Ty goes to a lot of MD prep games and know the landscape they’re intimately, which gives those players a huge leg up on anyone outside of MD. Hey. It’s lacrosse. Nothing is fair and equitable. Absolutely nothing.

Ty saw my kid once and gave him a very high Eval rating that he very rarely gives out. Based on only that score, he should be a 5 star, comparatively speaking. But he never saw my son play again. So he gave him an unranked 4 stars. That how it works. Not really that big of a deal when all said and done. My son got a great offer from a great school and program, since any self respecting college coach will do their own evaluations. That said, a higher ranking would definitely had a big impact. Moral of the story: Does the IL ranking matter to college coaches? Most definitely. But it’s also not the end all, either. Coaches will do their due diligence. Having the NLF rankings definitely helps to give an additional perspective on the players. And the NLF doesn’t have the MD bias that Ty has.

The IL ranking does NOT matter one bit to a college coach. Lmao.


Unfortunately that’s a wrong take. Having a relative who is an AD Assistant, I asked this exact question and the response was rankings/stars matter. It doesn’t matter from the perspective of performance when the team is winning (and maybe to the coach who sees the player first hand) but when not winning the first question asked is are you getting the top players or comparable players at comparable schools and the AD’s in all sports use rankings and stars. For them it is virtually impossible to be on top of every sport and every player their team brings in so when they are playing mediocre or not up to expectations the question being asked to coaches is what are the rankings of the players being brought in or how many stars. They ADs need a comparison to see why x team is successful and why they are not. Again, we all know that stars are not indicative performance just like an SAT score is not indicative of academic performance but at the end of the day ADs want results and winning teams and when they are not they look to rankings and stars as an potential indicator of why. Just reporting an answer to a question.