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Virginia Tech Basketball Recruiting Chart

  • Hey Hokies,

    I used to keep up a NC State Basketball Recruiting Chart over at PackPride (the NC State Scout boards) which combined all the links and ratings from Scout, ESPN, and Rivals. It got difficult to maintain by hand, so I automated the process, and threw a basic UI together and put it up on the web. I did the same for all the other schools while I was automating it.

    I started cleaning up the rosters on my fellow ACC teams first, and then moved on to the rest of the BCS conferences. I've gotten a lot of great responses from other fans, so I hope you will find it useful as well.

    BTW, I haven't gotten to validating the active rosters for schools outside the BCS conferences yet, so that data will be inaccurate due to red-shirts, prep schools, junior colleges and transfers.

    I'd also love to hear any suggestions you might have to improve the site as well; I'll try to implement them if I can keep my wife from leaving me for spending all my time working on this site.

    Anyway, here is the Virginia Tech page, let me know if you see any corrections, or have any questions. Hope you enjoy!

    This post was edited by Philawolf on 2/28/2012 at 2:14 AM

    recruits

    http://verbalcommits.com/schools/9

    verbalcommits.com

    Philawolf

  • Wow thats really cool. Thanks.

    STL_22

  • Great information and an even better layout.

    Shows how desperately thin we are at the 5.

    This post was edited by sbmn on 2/28/2012 at 8:07 AM

    sbmn

  • sbmn said...

    Great information and an even better layout.

    Shows how desperately thin we are at the 5.

    Thanks! I'm glad you like.

    Philawolf

  • That is awesome. Instant info on whatever you want to know. You can see who is recruiting the players your school is targeting then switch to those teams to see how many spots they will have available and their own depth charts.

    Great job. thumbsup

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  • hokieZ71 said...

    That is awesome. Instant info on whatever you want to know. You can see who is recruiting the players your school is targeting then switch to those teams to see how many spots they will have available and their own depth charts.

    Great job. thumbsup

    I'm just psyched so many people are finding it so valuable. I'll be tackling (no pun intended) football next.

    Philawolf

  • Some Updates:

    For those of you who were having issues with the size of the chart being too large and having to scroll left to right, I've made a fix so that viewing the page should be easier with no scrolling.

    The rankings are now in lock-step with ESPN, Scout and Rivals. I've now put in place a process that checks for new rankings nightly, so they should stay in sync. I've also added the change between the current rankings and the previous rankings for each player.

    I've added a check for changes in the star value for each player's profile at Scout, Rivals and ESPN, so issues with the star values being "stale" for players should now be addressed.

    I've added the team committed to for the player ranking pages, and addressed the issue where the 2013 rankings weren't showing up properly.

    Please let me know if you'd like to see updates less frequently. I don't want to spam anybody.

    recruits

    http://verbalcommits.com/schools/9

    verbalcommits.com

    Philawolf

  • Philawolf said...

    Some Updates:

    For those of you who were having issues with the size of the chart being too large and having to scroll left to right, I've made a fix so that viewing the page should be easier with no scrolling.

    The rankings are now in lock-step with ESPN, Scout and Rivals. I've now put in place a process that checks for new rankings nightly, so they should stay in sync. I've also added the change between the current rankings and the previous rankings for each player.

    I've added a check for changes in the star value for each player's profile at Scout, Rivals and ESPN, so issues with the star values being "stale" for players should now be addressed.

    I've added the team committed to for the player ranking pages, and addressed the issue where the 2013 rankings weren't showing up properly.

    Please let me know if you'd like to see updates less frequently. I don't want to spam anybody.

    Absolutely awesome! Please, please, please, keep it coming as often as you like. I love me some VT football, but as a basketball-first guy I often find myself starving for b-ball info-- especially at a football-dominated (and rightfully so) like VT.

    Twitter: @GDubyaHokie

    GDubyaHokie ●

  • Damn good job, Update as often as needed to keep the info current.
    Just added the link to my favorites list. Thanks for the effort.

    BobJ

  • Just wanted to give you guys an update, I've now added the twitter feeds for every ranked recruit in the 2012 and 2013 classes whose twitter account I could find, and whose twitter account was open to the public.

    recruits

    http://verbalcommits.com/schools/9

    verbalcommits.com

    Philawolf

  • I wanted to give you an update on the site. I've added embedded YouTube highlights (and/or interviews) on the player profile pages for every recruit ranked (either overall or at their position) in 2012, 2013, and 2014. There are a few exceptions where I couldn't find video highlights or interviews for the players, but I got >95%.

    I've made some other tweaks as well for the colorblind, so the color coding has changed, I've also added a toggle feature for showing and hiding the overall and position ranks for each player, so that its easier to see the whole chart in one screen. Some other minor updates as well.

    Here is Montrezl Harrell's profile page, he looks like an athletic freak.

    Montrezl Harrell | Verbal Commits

    http://www.verbalcommits.com/players/227

    www.verbalcommits.com

    Philawolf

  • Philawolf said...

    I wanted to give you an update on the site. I've added embedded YouTube highlights (and/or interviews) on the player profile pages for every recruit ranked (either overall or at their position) in 2012, 2013, and 2014. There are a few exceptions where I couldn't find video highlights or interviews for the players, but I got >95%.

    I've made some other tweaks as well for the colorblind, so the color coding has changed, I've also added a toggle feature for showing and hiding the overall and position ranks for each player, so that its easier to see the whole chart in one screen. Some other minor updates as well.

    Here is Montrezl Harrell's profile page, he looks like an athletic freak.

    This is outstanding work. You really should be getting paid for this!

    Twitter: @GDubyaHokie

    GDubyaHokie ●

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