SCOUTING & REPORTING
Overall Rating for Rising Seniors
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 "Class Rating"

Assigned to: "Rising Seniors". For the purposes of this scale, a player is designated a "Rising Senior" on January 1 of the year they
will become a senior.

Example: 2009 graduate becomes a "Rising Senior" 1/1/2008

Purposes: show the level(s) at which the player has potential to be recruited, and show how the player rates against other "Rising Seniors".

Scale: Numbers 1 - 10. Top = 1, Bottom = 10

The chart below shows the levels of college baseball, along with the range of players with potential to be recruited at that level.

Division I
Division II
Division III
NAIA
JUCO
Class 1 - 4
Class 1 - 5
Class 1 - 8
Class 1 - 6
Class 1 - 8

This rating is based only on our evaluation of the baseball ability. There are many other factors that influence the recruiting process,
our scale does not account for them since they are specific to each individual school.
player academics (GPA, SAT, ACT, Class Rank)
school academic requirements
school recruiting needs
school recruiting budget & available money
type of player(s) school likes and recruits
in state vs. out of state players

The Class Rating is not designed to express the scholarship potential of a player to a certain level or school, only the schools and
coaches can determine that using the factors above along with their evaluation of the player.

The Class Rating is designed to help players identify the level(s) of college baseball at which they have potential to be recruited,
and to help schools and coaches identify players that have potential to be recruits for them.

Tier Rating     |     Tool Grades     |    Updated February 1, 2008