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  1. dallasoliver

    Slam.Tennis College Site

    One other thing to point out ... We recently rolled out some new pages at the SLAM.tennis site. Check out team pages (e.g., the Florida Women) as well as Conference Standings and Teams index pages. There are some fantastic sorts on the team pages - order by quality of win, quality of opponent...
  2. dallasoliver

    Slam.Tennis College Site

    Hey Billy - Yes, I agree that the Massey Ratings are extremely interesting. Ken Massey does a fantastic job with his site and his rankings always look good. You can actually compare any two teams from any divisions by their SLAM Ratings - which is on a scale of 0 to 100. The #1 overall men's...
  3. dallasoliver

    Slam.Tennis College Site

    Thanks for the kudos. We released our first D-II, D-III, and NAIA rankings for 2017 today. At this point, the rankings are not as accurate as the D-I and Mid-Major rankings because of lack of play. In D-III for example, many of the NESCAC teams (as you pointed out) have only played a couple of...
  4. dallasoliver

    Slam.Tennis College Site

    Mid-Major Rankings now available at SLAM.tennis. As of this week, we are ranking 64 overall NCAA D-I programs (men and women) and 64 Mid-Major NCAA D-I programs (men and women). Have a look at the site to see ... Coming soon are NAIA, D-II, and D-III rankings ...
  5. dallasoliver

    Slam.Tennis College Site

    We plan to update our rankings weekly. Our rankings will be published on Thursdays so as not to interfere with the ITA and USTA releases. New rankings are up today. To address people wanting us to include more teams, we have talked internally and plan on doing the following ... 1) Our basic...
  6. dallasoliver

    Slam.Tennis College Site

    Alright, alright ... I hear you. ;-) Will revisit this internally.
  7. dallasoliver

    Slam.Tennis College Site

    From Day 1, our system has supported two variants: -- unweighted ratings that use a more vanilla model, and -- weighted ratings that take into account scores, recent results, and how established the competitors are. The unweighted version is better at grading history, while the weighted...
  8. dallasoliver

    Slam.Tennis College Site

    We make adjustments for: --- shut-out wins (i.e., 4-0, 5-0, 6-0, 7-0, 8-0, 9-0) count as 1.5 wins --- one point difference (i.e., 4-3, 5-4) count as a 80% win for the winner and 20% win for the loser Adjustments are only made when the winning team wins 4 or more points. While it is true that a...
  9. dallasoliver

    Slam.Tennis College Site

    We are not sure at this point. In March we do plan to rank D-II, D-III, and NAIA schools on their own lists. The rating values (i.e., the smaller decimal numbers beneath the ranking value in the first column) are common across all divisions, so those can be used to see where D-III programs would...
  10. dallasoliver

    Slam.Tennis College Site

    Hey gang - We are excited to launch our new college tennis website - slam.tennis! Right now this website is a college rankings website - ranking college teams using the same ranking system that we use at TRN. Check it out - and read more about the rankings navigation and under-the-dashboard...
  11. dallasoliver

    Top recruiting classes

    Okay, since I run the Recruiting Class Rankings at TRN, I'll bite. Here are a few comments about ranking tennis recruiting classes in general ... and about our rankings in particular. (1) There is no good time to do recruiting class rankings. Let's consider this year's Class of 2017. On the...
  12. dallasoliver

    College Tennis Recruit... AMA

    I can weigh in here. Many Ivy coaches and recruits come to agreement over recruiting over the summer, but (as you observed) admissions does not send out their "Likely Letters" until some time during the early admissions period - often during December. Indeed, our commitment announcement this...
  13. dallasoliver

    Best recruiting classes for 2016 so far per TRN

    I think "these rankings are worthless" is a bit too strong. Many players sign later than our cutoff date. For example, I recall that Uspensky signed with Wake in June last year. And many international kids don't sign until January - right before the Spring Semester. As ClarkC mentions above, we...
  14. dallasoliver

    Best recruiting classes for 2016 so far per TRN

    Those recruits were not reported until after May 1 when we started the voting - we talked to Coach Hill about that. USF would have likely been Top 10 if we had heard about those commitments in time. Note that Duke did not get credit for Spencer Furman either. - Dallas
  15. dallasoliver

    Question for Illinois Fans

    Thanks for your thoughts. Going with the Indian. I think it will look cool. Best, Dallas
  16. dallasoliver

    Question for Illinois Fans

    Hey gang - As you may know, we host a "May Madness Bracket Challenge" each year for the NCAA Tournament, and we usually feature mascots for top teams. Since Illinois is in the mix this year, I would like to commission a drawing for Illinois. The problem is... what should I commission? It...
  17. dallasoliver

    Tennis Recruiting.net question

    It's just who I am. - D
  18. dallasoliver

    Tennis Recruiting.net question

    Hi tennisbuck - Those parts of the player profile are yours and can be used the way you want. Many people list schools that they have visited unofficially. I hope that helps. Best, Dallas
  19. dallasoliver

    Recruiting Rankings

    Like UTR, we stand by our rankings at all levels. We believe that our rankings are the most predictive rankings available for junior tennis players of all levels. At the end of the day, having multiple metrics available is good for everyone. Best, Dallas
  20. dallasoliver

    Reference points on what level needed for college level tennis? (recruit advise)

    With all due respect, can you give me a concrete example? Not here on the message board - but please email me (dallas at tennisrecruiting dot net) two players who you think are significantly out of order on the College Recruiting Lists at Tennis Recruiting. I have never had anyone send me an...
  21. dallasoliver

    Reference points on what level needed for college level tennis? (recruit advise)

    OK... I'll bite. We at Tennis Recruiting have been big fans of the UTR since their launch - and we have promoted their ratings system on our website for years. It is a strong idea, and their recent re-launch of their website is fantastic. Their goals are ambitious, and I think they are doing...
  22. dallasoliver

    Any good college tennis message boards?

    Thanks to everyone for their feedback. The first of our Roundtable Articles is on our website today: http://tennisrecruiting.net/article.asp?id=1930 A nice plug in there for this forum. Best, Dallas
  23. dallasoliver

    Any good college tennis message boards?

    Hey gang - We are running a couple of NCAA Roundtable articles at Tennis Recruiting this week (featuring comments from some posters here at College Tennis Talk!) - and I wanted to put plugs in for good websites (or message boards, or blogs, etc.) that cover college tennis. Anyone here have...
  24. dallasoliver

    ELO ratings need to be used for junior rankings

    My name is Dallas Oliver, and I am in charge of overall content and direction at Tennis Recruiting. I'll scattershoot and make a few comments on this thread. - All ranking systems can be gamed. Period. - It is much harder to game two ranking systems at the same time - particularly ranking...
  25. dallasoliver

    Inside College Tennis Premieres Tonight

    Hey gang - I apologize if this was already mentioned in a different thread, but there is a new half-hour show premiering tonight on the Tennis Channel called Inside College Tennis With Tony Minnis. The premiere is tonight at 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific, and it will feature both the TCU men's and...
  26. dallasoliver

    Tennisrecruiting.net a crippled bird?

    Your other question (about Altamirano) was answered by mrmo1115. I will comment on the ratings (i.e., the "stars")... Ratings like ours are very coarse rankings in terms of how they differentiate players (only 7 categories - Blue Chip, 5-, 4-, 3-, 2-, 1-Star, Unrated) and their frequency...
  27. dallasoliver

    Tennisrecruiting.net a crippled bird?

    OK... I'll bite. If our rankings are as "sketchy" as you say they are, it should be easy for you to provide examples of players where our rankings are wrong. I don't want to encourage talking about specific kids in a public forum, so email me two players with reasonable-length records (10+...
  28. dallasoliver

    Tennisrecruiting.net a crippled bird?

    Well, if you are thinking about college tennis, then you might care about rankings outside the Top 100. After all, there are more than 300 tennis programs just at the NCAA Division I level - plus lots more in D-II, D-III, NAIA, NJCAA, etc. With scholarship money, preferred admissions, etc., on...
  29. dallasoliver

    Tennisrecruiting.net a crippled bird?

    tennis5 - great thoughts. I was composing my response when you posted yours.
  30. dallasoliver

    Tennisrecruiting.net a crippled bird?

    My name is Dallas Oliver, and I am in charge of the overall content and direction of Tennis Recruiting. Since this thread seems to be aimed at my company, I figured I would chime in. I'll comment on the original comments in this thread. (I apologize if I am being pedantic here - but I feel...
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