I spent a little time putting together a spreadsheet of All ACC Player from 2018 through 2022. It includes the name, position, team, and recruiting year. It's filterable, maybe. Not sure if I have to allow editor access to do that, so if that doesn't work, let me know so that I can change it.
If you want to look at it, there are some interesting things to see, like how players progress and how many players are one-year All ACC, and then disappear (either to transfer, graduation, injury, or otherwise). You can see how VT compares to other programs in the ACC.
It was a lot of work, and if I feel up to it I might later add some data to compare the team aggregate recruiting ranking somewhere for the year that the player was recruited. It would be nice to add the player ranking at some point, but that is too much work in my opinion.
Anyway, enjoy.
All ACC Players from 2018-2022
EDIT: I did a little cleanup this morning. It's now easier to sort by players, because I took out the position from the player cells in the 2019-2022 teams. The ACC website changed their format between 2018 and 2019, and made it harder to put it in a spreadsheet. The jerks. New tools in Google sheets made it easy to fix, but I didn't know that last week.
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Thanks for the impressive amount of work. But I have no idea what to do with it.
Thanks for the hard work to put this together. I wasn't sure what to look for so I threw it into Power BI and just fucked around and these are the quick things that stood out:
-Clemson is big dogging everyone else on that list (no surprise) but (surprisingly) Pitt came in second and Pitt had more offensive players than defensive players represented.
-It doesn't make sense to me that Notre Lame isn't represented well on that list at all (dead damn last). Either this data set doesn't capture everything, I'm missing something obvious, or they're doing a hell of a lot more with a hell of a lot less than expected.
-We have just as many punters on that list as we do backs and tight ends combined (3).
The most damning thing I found (and what is largely related to our offensive woes IMO) is that we don't have a QB on that list at all.
FYI I think your line 655 is off: Team is Jr. and should probably be Wake Forest.
Thanks, now corrected.
Notre Dame was only included in 2020. I assume it was the only year they were eligible. to have players included. I don't know why. Maybe that was because of special COVID year arrangements.
Just putting the list together let me see a few things, but I haven't yet looked at it to see if my impressions match the actual data. I'm as surprised as you to see Pitt with more offensive than defensive players represented. My impression was that Pitt tended to have a lot of DT and LB, more than a lot of teams, so I'm surprised to see they were ranked so high in offense.
Things I would like to look at:
1) I got the impression that Miami and FSU had a lot of players that showed up for just a year or two. Based on my searches for recruiting year, it seems to be they left for the pros. I would like to know if that was true.
2) My impression was that we didn't have a lot of players, even in 2018 and 2019, but when we did, they didn't tend to be young players. I'd like to confirm that.
3) I got the impression that it was really rare to have a true FR (recruiting year = All ACC year) on any level of an All ACC team. There were a few, and my impression was those that made it tended to be from FSU and Miami (maybe if my impressions about their players and the NFL were correct, that might make sense). That also means it's either sad or impressive that VT had two true FR on the 2022 All ACC team. I'll pick impressive and be an optimist.
4) I thought going into this that I would see a lot of the same names - they would start in Honorable Mention, move to Third or Second Team, then Second or Third Team as the years went by. My impression now is that it's about 50-50 for that to happen. I would like to confirm that. If it's true, it could be that players transferred out and made All Conference for their new team or went to the NFL. Either way, I had hoped to see if we could judge player development this way. For example, I expected to see a progression in Wake Forest All ACC players. I haven't looked at that yet.
5) I also got the impression that making First or Second Team All ACC gave you an excellent chance of making an NFL roster. When I looked up Recruiting Year on 247, I seemed to find a lot of ACC players in the NFL. It would be a lot of work to find out if it's true, but maybe someone has a spreadsheet of ACC players in the NFL, and you could cross reference this sheet with that one.
I'm using this sheet to learn re-learn R. First thing I've noticed, if I did the programming right, is that there are only 2 players who have made All ACC for all 4 years: Ben Petrula, BC OL, and Christopher Dunn, NC State PK.
Players that made it 3 times: a lot. 25 actually. Lecitus Smith is VT's only 3 year All ACC Player. LB Nick Jackson is UVa's only 3 year All ACC Player.
Unsurprisingly, Clemson leads everyone with the number of 3 year All ACC: 8 players made the list. But second? Boston College, with FIVE. And they weren't all OL. They had a CB (Josh DeBerry) and WR (Zay Flowers) also.
But,..... Wake Forest is Jr........
Took a little longer than I thought to get the names separated from the position, schools, and number of votes, but finally finished if I have no errors.
I have all the number of votes except 2018 Second Team, Third Team, and Honorable Mention, but I will probably add those over time. Thanks ACC for changing the format in 2019.