We're back with our Hot 100 top players of the fall in D1AA rugby comes, and now we hit the rest of the forward pack with Locks and Loose Forwards.
One of the things we try to do is have a fairly even spread of positions within our picks. As you probably know by now, our Hot 100 is closer to 150 players. That's easy to track for the spread: Hooker, No. 8, Scrumhalf, Flyhalf, and Fullback should then have 10 players picked per position; Prop, Lock, Flanker, Center, and Wing should have 20.
It doesn't always work out that way. In a lot of college teams, you'll see an athletic, powerful wing moves to center, or a wing who can kick moved to fullback; you'll see a player of lock size with additional ball skills and pace at No. 8. So some positions can be a bit skewed because of that.
So as it turned out we had 16 locks, not 20, and 16 flankers, not 20, but we also had 18 players at No. 8, instead of 10. So if you add all those up, that's 50 players in those positions, and we would expect 50 players. Really what we're saying here is that eight of those No. 8s could slot on a great team as a flanker or a lock and do really well.
With a ton of research from intern James Stelluti, we've got players from NCR and CRAA, as long as they're D1AA. Were calling it the Hot 100 but we've actually got about 150 players on our list right now.
Today we look at wing and fullback. Think we missed someone or want to suggest someone? Let us know>>
