Daily Blog •June 11, 2013	Blog Archives

Today’s blog continues my in-depth look at my New and Improved Experience Chart. For 7 years, I had listed an experience chart, which broke down the number of seniors, juniors, sophomores and freshmen each team had in the two deep and rated the teams experience level with a formula I devised. In 2009, I made the experience chart FIVE TIMES better.

Today I will look at the returning letterman/lost percentages.

Last year I went back and looked at percentages of lettermen returning and lost. Using percentages is more reliable than the amount of returning or lost lettermen because schools give out letters in different manners. Some schools hand out a lot of letters and others far fewer. Getting a letter at Syracuse under Paul Pasqualoni was tough, as he handed out just 38 total letters in 2004 and 40 in 2003. This year, the low’s were Connecticut under Pasqualoni with 45 while North Texas, Old Dominion and Nevada all had 51. Nebraska in 2001 handed out 82 letters or over double what Syracuse was giving out. It was also the most given out by any school in the previous 6 years. In 2007, Ohio broke all records with an amazing 91 letters given out while Hawaii had 90! Last year, Utah was number one with 84 total letters given out while Mississippi was #2 with 83.

% of Letterman Returning and Lost

		LETTERMAN	LETTERMAN	TOTAL	LETTERMAN
RANK	TEAM	RETURN	LOST	LETTERMAN	%
1	Rice	54	9	63	85.71%
2	UTSA	51	9	60	85.00%
3	Wisconsin	52	10	62	83.87%
4	Louisville	53	11	64	82.81%
5	Marshall	57	12	69	82.61%
6	Colorado	61	13	74	82.43%
7	ULM	45	10	55	81.82%
8	Texas	53	12	65	81.54%
9	Michigan St	52	13	65	80.00%
10	Florida Atlantic	54	14	68	79.41%
11	Temple	53	14	67	79.10%
12	Georgia Tech	55	15	70	78.57%
13	Washington	58	16	74	78.38%
14	South Alabama	43	12	55	78.18%
15	Bowling Green	50	14	64	78.13%
16	Louisiana	56	16	72	77.78%
17	Clemson	55	16	71	77.46%
18	Georgia St	50	15	65	76.92%
19	Northern Illinois	55	17	72	76.39%
20	Akron	45	14	59	76.27%
21	Buffalo	54	17	71	76.06%
22	Kentucky	57	18	75	76.00%
23	Oregon St	60	19	79	75.95%
24	Virginia Tech	50	16	66	75.76%
25	Stanford	59	19	78	75.64%
26	Utah St	49	16	65	75.38%
27	Tulane	51	17	68	75.00%
27	Tulsa	42	14	56	75.00%
27	WKU	39	13	52	75.00%
30	Indiana	53	18	71	74.65%
31	East Carolina	50	17	67	74.63%
31	UAB	50	17	67	74.63%
33	Auburn	44	15	59	74.58%
34	North Texas	38	13	51	74.51%
35	Minnesota	55	19	74	74.32%
36	Tennessee	46	16	62	74.19%
37	Texas St	54	19	73	73.97%
38	Arizona	51	18	69	73.91%
39	Texas Tech	53	19	72	73.61%
40	Connecticut	33	12	45	73.33%
41	Army	60	22	82	73.17%
42	Washington St	43	16	59	72.88%
43	Central Michigan	51	19	70	72.86%
44	Colorado St	45	17	62	72.58%
45	Oregon	52	20	72	72.22%
46	Middle Tennessee	46	18	64	71.88%
47	San Diego St	50	20	70	71.43%
48	Mississippi	59	24	83	71.08%
49	Northwestern	54	22	76	71.05%
50	Boston College	39	16	55	70.91%
51	Miami, Fl	53	22	75	70.67%
52	New Mexico	48	20	68	70.59%
52	Old Dominion	36	15	51	70.59%
54	Vanderbilt	43	18	61	70.49%
55	USC	57	24	81	70.37%
56	San Jose St	45	19	64	70.31%
56	UNLV	45	19	64	70.31%
58	Arkansas St	52	22	74	70.27%
59	UCLA	51	22	73	69.86%
60	Duke	46	20	66	69.70%
60	Memphis	46	20	66	69.70%
62	Wyoming	39	17	56	69.64%
63	Arizona St	55	24	79	69.62%
64	Toledo	41	18	59	69.49%
65	California	52	23	75	69.33%
66	Boise St	47	21	68	69.12%
67	Notre Dame	38	17	55	69.09%
68	Southern Miss	49	22	71	69.01%
68	Ohio	49	22	71	69.01%
70	Syracuse	40	18	58	68.97%
71	Ohio St	51	23	74	68.92%
72	NC State	44	20	64	68.75%
73	Purdue	48	22	70	68.57%
73	Alabama	48	22	70	68.57%
75	Air Force	50	23	73	68.49%
76	Kent St	41	19	60	68.33%
77	Virginia	42	20	62	67.74%
78	Wake Forest	46	22	68	67.65%
79	Troy	50	24	74	67.57%
80	Miami, Oh	52	25	77	67.53%
81	Missouri	39	19	58	67.24%
81	North Carolina	39	19	58	67.24%
83	Cincinnati	43	21	64	67.19%
84	Oklahoma	45	22	67	67.16%
85	Oklahoma St	47	23	70	67.14%
86	Texas A&M	49	24	73	67.12%
86	Georgia	49	24	73	67.12%
88	Michigan	48	24	72	66.67%
88	Florida St	48	24	72	66.67%
88	Rutgers	42	21	63	66.67%
88	Eastern Michigan	42	21	63	66.67%
88	Western Michigan	36	18	54	66.67%
88	Nevada	34	17	51	66.67%
94	Pittsburgh	43	22	65	66.15%
95	Fresno St	35	18	53	66.04%
96	FIU	48	25	73	65.75%
97	Arkansas	49	26	75	65.33%
98	Baylor	47	25	72	65.28%
99	Iowa	39	21	60	65.00%
100	Maryland	37	20	57	64.91%
101	BYU	46	25	71	64.79%
102	Mississippi St	43	24	67	64.18%
103	Florida	41	23	64	64.06%
104	New Mexico St	37	21	58	63.79%
105	UTEP	42	24	66	63.64%
106	TCU	43	25	68	63.24%
106	USF	43	25	68	63.24%
108	SMU	34	20	54	62.96%
109	West Virginia	36	22	58	62.07%
110	Ball State	39	24	63	61.90%
111	Navy	43	27	70	61.43%
112	Kansas St	42	27	69	60.87%
113	Houston	43	28	71	60.56%
114	Massachusetts	45	30	75	60.00%
114	South Carolina	36	24	60	60.00%
114	Idaho	36	24	60	60.00%
117	LSU	37	25	62	59.68%
118	Utah	50	34	84	59.52%
119	Hawaii	44	30	74	59.46%
120	Iowa St	40	28	68	58.82%
121	UCF	31	22	53	58.49%
122	Illinois	33	24	57	57.89%
123	Nebraska	43	32	75	57.33%
124	Kansas	35	27	62	56.45%
125	Penn St	38	32	70	54.29%
126	Louisiana Tech	32	31	63	50.79%

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