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Topic: Top 100 Players at Each Position

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Brutus Buckeye

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Re: Top 100 Players at Each Position
« Reply #14 on: May 08, 2025, 10:24:43 PM »
Who were the 100 worst P5 starters at each position?
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Re: Top 100 Players at Each Position
« Reply #15 on: May 08, 2025, 11:16:36 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on May 08, 2025, 10:24:43 PM
Who were the 100 worst P5 starters at each position?
We all probably have 100 for our own school....that guy who missed the block.  The other guy who missed that tackle...
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Re: Top 100 Players at Each Position
« Reply #16 on: May 08, 2025, 11:25:54 PM »
One cool thing from the BJ Historical Abstract for baseball was that a team made up of the 30th-best at each position would definitely win its division each year and be highly-favored to win the WS, but a team of the 70th-ranked guys would be the lower-limit on probably winning their division at all.
I think I have that right.  Something like that.
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You'd think, or at least I did, that the 70th-best at every position EVER on one team would still be VERY strong...but it's not.

I wonder if that would be similar for college football.  Way more teams, even if it's just P4/5....but at 70th-best, you'd basically be having the worst best player at a school's position.  If that makes sense.  Like Wake Forest's best-ever DT, Oregon State's best-ever TE, etc.

That's still a great team, right?
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Re: Top 100 Players at Each Position
« Reply #17 on: Today at 12:31:45 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on May 08, 2025, 11:16:36 PM
We all probably have 100 for our own school....that guy who missed the block.  The other guy who missed that tackle...

Oh yeah.

JB Shugarts just got flagged with another false start penalty.

Lydell Ross was the worst starting running back.

Lots of starting QB candidates; Joe Bauserman, Steve Bellisari, Justin Zwick...
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Re: Top 100 Players at Each Position
« Reply #18 on: Today at 01:12:14 AM »
Who was that CB that had like 15 PIs last year?
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Re: Top 100 Players at Each Position
« Reply #19 on: Today at 01:26:12 AM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on May 08, 2025, 02:49:07 AM
100 might be a little much for some positions, or a little light for others, like O line, etc. Probably would need a top 500 for that position group.
I think 300 is fair.  
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I know for tackles, often times a guy is at RT early on and moves to LT once he improves.  
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Re: Top 100 Players at Each Position
« Reply #20 on: Today at 06:56:48 AM »
Baseball is probably more dependent on pitching than football is on the QB, though a single pitcher of course can't play every game (as a starter anyway).
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