Somehow, simply saying Alabama has signed the best class in the country seven years in a row doesn’t fully explain how dominant the Tide have been on the recruiting trail during that span.

They haven’t just come out on top in the 247Sports Composite Team Recruiting Rankings seven years running. As a statistical analysis of those seven cycles show, they’ve annihilated the competition.

Let’s start here: There have been 223 five-star prospects signed since 2011 — and Alabama has inked 33 of them. In other words, Nick Saban has signed one of every seven five-star prospects over the last seven years. One of every seven. Every time seven players that earned five-star status, Alabama got one and the other six were left for the 127 FBS teams out there. Those 33 five-star signees were more than Tennessee, Miami, Oregon, Notre Dame, Michigan, Oklahoma and Texas combined (31) during that span.

Even more staggering is the fact that, of the 14 five-stars to come out of the state of Alabama since 2011, 10 of them have signed with the Tide — a whopping 71.4%. That includes stars like Marlon Humphrey, O.J. Howard, Reuben Foster and T.J. Yeldon as Auburn and Florida State split the other four.

But Alabama’s unmatched ability to reel in five-star prospects is, of course, not limited to its home state. Nearby Florida produced the most five-star prospects during this seven-year span with 42 — and only Florida State (11) signed more of them than Alabama (seven). The Tide signees from the Sunshine State since 2011 is an illustrious group that includes the likes of Calvin Ridley, Heisman winner Derrick Henry, All-American and Pro Bowl safety Ha-Ha Clinton Dix and, from this year’s class, Dylan Moses.

In essence, if a five-star prospect was from Alabama or Florida (and one out of every four from in the last seven years were), there was an astounding 40.5% chance you were going to Tuscaloosa — better than two out of every five.

Alabama has also obviously been signing four-star prospects at a prolific rate. It has signed 93 since 2011, which, shockingly, is merely the second-most in the country, behind Ohio State’s 101 — although the Tide signed 20 more five-star prospects during that stretch than the Buckeyes. In all, Alabama has signed a collective 126 four- and five-star players since 2011, the most in the nation and 12 more than the second-place Buckeyes. That haul accounted for nearly 70% of all the players Alabama signed over those seven years (69.6%). The only other program with at least 100 is LSU (104).

One thing that this analysis shows is lacking in recruiting from a national perspective is parity, a truth nobody is better at revealing and confirming than Alabama. When it comes to four- and five-star prospects, they usually come from the same areas and go to the same places, often not leaving their home state. In fact, six schools signed as many five-star prospects as everyone else combined — Alabama, Florida State, USC, Georgia, Ohio State and LSU.

Seven states accounted for more than 60% of the four- and five-star prospects signed since 2011 (60.8%, to be precise) in Texas, Florida, California, Georgia, Ohio, Louisiana and Alabama. Again, Alabama signed the most from those states (96). And that’s with Alabama having the least number of four- and five-star prospects during this span of those seven states. That’s a significant distinction considering the fact that the majority of those four- and five-star prospects from those seven states signed with an in-state school.

When a four- or five-star prospect from those seven stockpiled states did sign out of state, they did so with Alabama more often than anywhere else as the Tide reeled in 59 of them — and 89 out-of-state four- and five-star prospects from any of the other 49 states.

Alabama has set the college football standard throughout the decade Nick Saban has served as its head coach, winning four national championships and coming agonizingly close to a fifth last season. And it all starts with their unrivaled dominance on the recruiting trail, especially over the last seven years.

Christian Corona is a contributing writer to 247Sports focusing on analytics-oriented college sports content. He is a data analytics consultant based in New York whose college football model went 54.1% picking every FBS game against the spread over the last two months of the 2015 regular season and better than 53.5% six of the last ten weeks of the 2016 season. You can reach him at @ChristianC0rona on Twitter.