What is great about this ranking is that you have four distinct groups that could result in widely different out of pocket costs to attend: (1) the Ivy schools who are essentially full price for a family that does not meet the definition of financial need, (2) the next elite academic group like the Stanford's that can give athletic money but not merit because the entire student body is elite, (3) the next group of private schools who can give both types of awards as a D1, and then (4) the in-state versus out of state public schools (some of who can qualify students for in-state based on merit).
I believe there are other threads on this forum debating the "value" of the private schools versus in-state. But seeing this ranking would help me understand why a baseball kid from SoCal who was being recruited by both USC and Cal-Berkeley would choose Cal-Berkeley assuming a similar 25 percent athletic scholarship offer. About $25K in yearly savings by choosing Cal over USC given very similar academic/baseball rankings would make a lot of sense.