Yeah, I wouldn't think them being given an extra star would make much of a difference in our team ranking. It may be a case of the service just awarding extra stars instead of them actually moving ahead of other players at their position. Now Dre moving to the 11 overall player certainly would make sense in raising our rankings cause he would have moved ahead of other players.Having a couple of your signees go from three stars to four stars will definitely help in the rankings, but it's not going to make a huge impact. Now if Dial and Orr both get their fourth stars, then I think it would make a very big impact, but as it is, the impact is probably a bit on the small side.
Nevertheless, all told, the update has definitely helped our recruiting class ranking. Two of our commitments rose to four-star status, and one went up to a five-star (and the #11 overall player in the entire country). I could see where that moved us, perhaps, from 15th to about 12th or so.
I think when it comes to evaluating recruits that the top 100 players at each position should be ranked from 1 to 100. That would be all 22 positions on offense and defense and then the kickers and athletes. That would be around 2500 or so recruits.
Then you would add the numbers for each teams commits and divide that by how many signed and the lowest scores would be the best classes. That would seem to me a better way to determine who did the best at recruiting not averaging out stars. But what do I know, lol!