Thats exactly what it is about. The voters might not see all these kids so they do defer to these type of rankings.
The funny thing is that a guy like Evan, who put out this, his first list, for example, is at a significantly larger amount of events than actual McDonald's All-American voters like Tim McCormick, Kurt Kenner, Joe Wooten (Morgan's son), Mike Sullivan, Vito Montelli, Joe Petrocelli, Tim Stevens, Sonny Hill, etc.