I am trying to grade them overall. People are getting hung up the whole Tier 3 vs Tier 2 thing. It isn't really a substatant issue, but its an important distinction to make
Tier 1 is a very versatile race that is a great choice in almost all classes (human, raptoran, dwarf, etc.)
Tier 2 is slightly less versatile race that is either very good at just a couple very good roles (grey elf), or good at a large variety of things but slightly less so than a tier 1 (wild elf, halfling, goliath)
Tier 3 is slightly less versatile than tier 2, good in a couple roles but does not particularly excel in those roles (halforc, goblin)
Tier 4 is screwed into a particular group of characters (Orcs to melee, spellscales to charisma based classes) and is still not quite optimal in those roles (a human or dwarf barbarian and a human or raptoran sorcerer is still the better choice in most circumstances)
Tier 5 is strictly suboptimal compared to other races except for rare "extremely specialized" (gimmick) builds or odd DM houserules.
Its nonsensical to rate Raptorans as summoner clerics (which is what they were meant to do) compared to humans when they are better for Charger/melee build, or compare Gnomes to other Bard races (especially when all of the bard races in the game are just different kinds of gnomes)