One board, one currency. Ranked by how much a target moves the counting team.
A college program can rank high-school, junior-college, and portal targets on the one amateur KR scale, at honest two-dial confidence, and rank them not by raw grade but by how much each improves the count-best-of-five Team KR. Three intake pools become one comparable board, keyed to the counting format, the program's gaps, and the courses it plays, inside a shifting amateur landscape flagged current-as-of.
The KR column is not the ranking. The counting-team column is.
The engine reads high-school, junior-college, and portal targets on the one amateur KR scale through the connected-fields ladder, so all three are comparable numbers, each with the confidence its record supports. Then it ranks the board not by raw KR but by counting-team movement: how much the target improves the program's count-best-of-five Team KR given its current roster, its courses, and its gaps. Sort the board and watch the order change.
A high schooler is the widest band, a portal golfer with college scoring against strong fields the tightest, and the board carries that honestly. But the ranking that matters is not the KR column, it is the counting-team column: the highest raw KR on the board can sit near the bottom when he would only be a sixth man, and a lower-KR target who cracks the counting five rises to the top. One currency, three pools, ranked by how much each moves the counting team, not by his raw grade.
Illustrative engine read on the real recruiting-board structure (three intake pools on the one amateur KR scale, per-pool confidence, ranked by count-best-of-five movement). Composite targets, demonstration figures.
Same golfer. A different priority at two programs.
Because the team score counts the best of the roster, value is team-relative and format-specific. A target who would crack the counting five moves the team more than a higher-KR target who would sit sixth, and course-fit against the program's schedule shapes the read. The same golfer is a different priority at two programs, and the engine names the reasoning rather than handing over a bare ranking.
Alpha's fifth counting spot is soft, so this golfer walks straight into the counting five and moves the Team KR a great deal. High priority, worth a real push.
It is the count-best-of format that makes a sixth man worth so little and a fifth counter worth so much, so a program with a soft counting spot and a program with a deep top five read the identical golfer completely differently. The engine prices the target against the specific roster gap and schedule, and says why, so a ranking is a read a coach can argue with. Value is team-relative: a fifth counter moves the team, a sixth man barely does.
Illustrative engine read on the real team-relative valuation structure (the count-best-of-five gap, course-fit, the same golfer priced differently at two programs with the reasoning named). Composite golfer and programs, demonstration figures.
A board inside a moving landscape. And a pro door.
The board sits inside a moving landscape. The engine surfaces the recruiting calendar and the shifting amateur rules, the eligibility clock in transition, the House-settlement roster and funding limits, the portal windows, as constraints on the board, flagged current-as-of and contested. And the most talented amateurs carry an outside option the program does not control.
A talented amateur carries turning professional as an outside option, because the crossing is a status change he makes by declaring, not a gate the program controls. So the recruiting read prices what it takes to land or keep him, the NIL, the development fit, the schedule, against the pro option, rather than assuming he is a captive amateur.
The amateur rules are treated as the moving constraints they are, held in the Reference and flagged v0 and current-as-of rather than asserted as settled. And a top amateur can turn professional by declaring, so the recruiting read prices what it takes to land or keep him against that option, because he is a free actor with a pro door, not a captive recruit. The shifting rules are moving constraints, and a top amateur always has the pro door as his outside option.
Illustrative engine read on the real recruiting-landscape structure (the calendar windows, the contested amateur rules, turning professional as the amateur's outside option). Composite calendar and rules, demonstration figures, all flagged v0 and current-as-of.
The engine prices a high schooler, a junior-college golfer, and a portal transfer on the same amateur scale at honest confidence, reads each against the count-best-of format and the program's gaps, and treats the shifting amateur rules as the moving constraints they are. A target is ranked by how much he moves the counting team, not by his raw grade, and the most talented amateur always keeps the pro door as his outside option.
The board is keyed to the counting team. See what it feeds.
The recruiting board reads targets against the count-best-of team and the program's gaps, and it feeds the roster construction, the portal board, and the NIL layer that helps land them.