I (Brigstew) mentioned a lot during our recent Top 25 Under 25 series that I didn’t put a whole lot of stock into precise rankings because they tell you more about the person assigning them than the players who are being ranked. What I did was put them into tiers, and then sort them within each tier according to my vague notion of who was slightly better than the others remaining.
One thing that has become a bit more popular of late is a prospect pyramid, thanks in part to Steve Dangle’s annual series doing this exact thing.