Since it's the thing to do in football recruiting, and there's only a couple services, I thought it would be fun to set up a composite ranking table for the 2023 recruiting class in lacrosse. Anything to put yesterday's game behind me, and all that. So, I present to you a composite Top 50 table, that is actually 74 names.
It's 74 names because there are some discrepancies in the top 50 between the 3 services I used, and because Sirius Lacrosse is probably the ESPN of lacrosse rankings. To use a football analogy.
Methodologically, I used Inside Lacrosse as a baseline, because it's proven to be a bit more accurate and credible, then the National Lacrosse Federation and Sirius Lacrosse rankings were sprinkled in. NLF generally ranks only the participants in their events, so there are some discrepancies with Inside Lacrosse there. Sirius Lacrosse is basically the "hold my beer" ranking service, given the fact that half their top 50 is just wild. Additionally, Sirius likes to do a crystal ball-esque prediction feature, but their predictions are way out there.
Example: They were so confident in Tucker Kellogg going to Ohio State that they listed the Buckeyes twice on their "prediction" feature. He obviously committed to Syracuse really, really quickly. So, grain of salt for all their thoughts.
I'll include the composite ranking beside each player, just know that if there was a player in NLF's rankings but not the others, I gave that player a 51 for the missing spots to give everyone the same baseline. If a player was missing from Inside Lacrosse and NLF, he got a 52 for those slots. That's a 52 because I really, really distrust Sirius' rankings.
Without further ado, here's your composite Top 50 lacrosse recruits for 2023:
Name Composite Rank (Average Ranking Across 3 Services)
1. McCabe Millon, A, 2.33
2. Benn Johnston, M, 3.00
3. Leo Hoffman, M, 3.00
4. Owen Duffy, A, 3.33
5. Mac Christmas, LSM, 3.67
6. Kyle Lehman, A/M, 6.67
7. Tomas Delgado, M, 9.00
8. Tucker Wade, M, 10.00
9. Caleb Fyock, G, 11.67
10. Anderson Moore, G, 13.67
11. Ty Banks, D, 14.33
12. Brady Wambach, FO, 16.67
13. Donny Scott, D, 17.67
14. Ben Beacham, M, 18.33
15. AJ Nikolic, M, 20.33
16. Hunter Spiess, D, 21.33
17. Hunter Chauvette, A, 21.67
18. Goose Wilson, G, 24.00
19. Colin Burns, A, 25.33
20. Nate Kabiri, A, 25.67
21. AJ Marsh, D, 26.67
22. Jackie Weller, FO, 27.00
23.Connor Foley, G, 29.67
24. Roman Buono, D, 30.00
25. Davis Provost, A, 33.00
26. Elijah Stobaugh, M, 33.33
27. Aiden Bodonyi, LSM/D, 34.00
28. Carson Krammer, M, 34.00
29. Jacob Pacheco, M, 35.00
30. Cole Aasheim, D, 35.33
31. Julian Targete, M, 36.00
32. Brett Koopman, LSM/D, 36.33
33. Robert Simone, FO, 36.67
34. Tucker Kellogg, M, 37.00
35. Alec Gregorek, A/M, 37.33
36. Hill Plunkett, A, 37.33
37. Peter Moynihan, A, 37.67
38. Andrew Greenspan, FO, 38.00
39. Trey Deere, A, 38.33
40. Wills Burt, M, 38.67
41. Quinn Cepiel 38.67
42. Michael Smyth, A/M, 39.33
43. Pasha Hakimi, LSM, 39.33
44. Jack Speidell, A, 40.67
45. Niko Karetsos, A, 41.00
46. Brody Upton, M, 41.00
47. Hayden Celio, A, 41.33
48. Michael Ippoliti, G, 41.67
49. Kyle Foster, D, 42.00
50. Cole Webber, D, 42.00
51. Jake Spallina, FO/M, 42.67
52. Rowan Clay, D/LSM, 43.00
53. Jordan Faison, M, 43.33
54. Patrick Jameison, G, 44.00
55. Jack Ponzio, A, 44.00
56. James Carroll, LSM, 45.33
57. Larry Horning, M, 45.67
58. CJ Reilly, M, 46.00
59. Mark Marino, A, 46.00
60. Shawn Lyght, D, 47.00
61. Alex Lobel, A, 47.33
62. Jake Melchionni, LSM, 47.67
63. Sam Ralston 48.00
64. Shuey Kelly, A, 48.67
65. Jack Kiefer, D, 48.67
66. Matthew Tully, G, 49.00
67. Caulley Deringer, A, 49.00
68. Jack Schubert, A, 49.33
69. Thomas Gravino, M, 50.00
70. Tommy Stines , D, 50.00
71. Jimmy Ayers, A, 50.33
72. Sean Creter, FO, 50.67
73. Dillon Torggler, D, 50.67
74. Nick Lancaster, D, 51.33
I'll try to post the full table in the comments, just wanted to get this up for a reference point first. Thanks for reading, and Go Bucks!
