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With the ever-increasing response to the Extra Elite 100 player rankings, the volume of information received over the last week has led the Extra Inning staff to push the ratings launch back to next Monday.
The adjusted dates are updated in the lists below.
“We could launch the rankings today,” explained Brentt Eads, who leads the player ranking efforts, “but decided after an unprecedented amount of information recently came in to not rush the lists and bios out for publication, but to take the time to be more methodical and accurate in our research.”
“We have over 1,200 pages of notes in our Word doc combining all our entries,” Eads continued, “and to be fair to the players we’ll take more time to process the great information that we have.”
The updated 2023 Extra Elite 100 will begin now 1 week from today as part of the latest in our player rankings series.
Note: the next set of ratings after the 2023’s will be the 2024 Extra Elite 100 starting June 21, 2021.
The Class of 2023 extensive coverage begins Monday, May 3, 2021 and for the following three weeks will include:
- the 2023 Extra Elite 100 ranked prospects with bios and photos
- the players ranked #’s 101-500
- a spotlight on the top player in the class
- position rankings (pitchers, catchers, infielders, outfielders)
This follows the previous Extra Elite 100 rankings published over the last year for the Classes of 2021, ’22, ’23, ’24, ‘25 and ’26. The 2025 Extra Elite 100 rankings were the most recently published (March 2021).
The rankings are led by Brentt Eads, Extra Inning Softball’s President & Executive Editor, and the Extra Inning Softball staff with input from more than 250 college and club scouts and coaches.
Brentt, who originated the top 100 rankings lists used in softball, will now have ranked more than a decade of grad classes (2014 to 2026) and, with updates of each, will have done more than three dozen class rankings.
Click HERE to see all the classes scheduled for this year!
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Here is the schedule of all the upcoming player releases for the 2023 Extra Elite 100 rankings:
- Mon., May 3, 2021: #’s 100-91
- Tues., May 4, 2021: #’s 90-81
- Wed., May 5, 2021: #’s 80-71
- Thu., May 6, 2021: #’s 70-61
- Fri., May 7, 2021: #’s 60-51
- Mon., May 10, 2021: #’s 50-41
- Tues., May 11, 2021: #’s 40-31
- Thu., May 13, 2021: #’s 30-21
- Fri., May 14, 2021: #’s 20-11
- Sat., May 15, 2021: #’s 10-1
- Mon., May 17, 2021: Extra Elite 100 #1 Player Spotlight
- Tues., May 18, 2021: #’s 101-200
- Wed., May 19, 2021: #’s 201-300
- Thu., May 20, 2021: #’s 301-400
- Fri., May 21, 2021: #’s 401-500
- Sat., May 22, 2021: Class of 2023 Position Rankings
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Submitting information:
If you would like to submit a player to be nominated, Click HERE to fill out our online form.
Or email us at [email protected] and send us the following (as applicable): player name, position(s), club team, school, home city/state, stats, honors, individual and team accomplishments, events attended such as camps, human interest insights (anything interesting, unusual or different) and a head shot (if available, a good action photo also).
The deadline to forward player info is 5 pm EST on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 to ensure athletes are considered before the lists are finalized.
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Upcoming Extra Elite 100 Schedules:
- 2024 Extra Elite 100 rankings (beginning June 21, 2021)
- 2027 Extra Elite 100 rankings (beginning Aug 16, 2021)
- 2022 Extra Elite 100 rankings (beginning Oct. 11, 2021)*
Previous Extra Elite 100 Rankings:
- 2025 Extra Elite 100 rankings (published Mar. 2021)
- 2026 Extra Elite 100 rankings (published Jan. 2021)
- 2021 Extra Elite 100 rankings (published Nov. 2020)*
- 2024 Extra Elite 100 rankings (published Sept. 2020)
- 2023 Extra Elite 100 rankings (published July 2020)
- 2025 Extra Elite 100 rankings (published May 2020)
- 2022 Extra Elite 100 rankings (published Apr. 2020)
- 2020 Extra Elite 100 rankings (published Nov. 2019)*
* = final rankings for that class prior to graduation