Daily Blog •May 26, 2012	Blog Archives

Today’s blog starts 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 went to Ball St with 46 while Connecticut under Pasqualoni had 49. 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 BYU was number one with 89 total letters given out while Florida St was #2 with 88.

Returning Letterman/Lost %

Rank	Team	Returning	Lost	%	Total
1	UTSA	53	9	85.48%	62
2	Florida	55	10	84.62%	65
3	WKU	48	10	82.76%	58
4	Stanford	61	16	79.22%	77
4	Oregon	61	16	79.22%	77
6	Mississippi	60	16	78.95%	76
7	FIU	48	13	78.69%	61
8	Utah	58	16	78.38%	74
9	Tulane	56	16	77.78%	72
10	Central Michigan	45	13	77.59%	58
11	Florida St	68	20	77.27%	88
12	Baylor	54	16	77.14%	70
13	Louisville	47	14	77.05%	61
14	Georgia Tech	53	16	76.81%	69
15	Louisiana Tech	46	14	76.67%	60
16	Tennessee	49	15	76.56%	64
17	Mississippi St	54	17	76.06%	71
18	Rutgers	43	14	75.44%	57
19	Ohio	49	16	75.38%	65
20	Arizona	55	18	75.34%	73
21	Pittsburgh	53	18	74.65%	71
21	Houston	53	18	74.65%	71
23	Memphis	41	14	74.55%	55
24	FAU	46	16	74.19%	62
25	UCLA	51	18	73.91%	69
26	South Alabama	47	17	73.44%	64
27	Buffalo	55	20	73.33%	75
28	Miami (Oh)	49	18	73.13%	67
29	BYU	65	24	73.03%	89
30	Georgia	54	20	72.97%	74
31	Wyoming	43	16	72.88%	59
32	Marshall	48	18	72.73%	66
32	Texas St	48	18	72.73%	66
32	Boston Coll	40	15	72.73%	55
35	Eastern Michigan	45	17	72.58%	62
36	Bowling Green	42	16	72.41%	58
37	Wake Forest	55	21	72.37%	76
38	Illinois	41	16	71.93%	57
39	Northern Illinois	53	21	71.62%	74
40	Michigan St	50	20	71.43%	70
40	Oklahoma St	50	20	71.43%	70
42	Army	57	23	71.25%	80
43	Minnesota	52	21	71.23%	73
44	Umass	42	17	71.19%	59
45	Arkansas	49	20	71.01%	69
46	Washington St	44	18	70.97%	62
47	Auburn	48	20	70.59%	68
47	East Carolina	48	20	70.59%	68
47	Boise St	48	20	70.59%	68
50	USF	45	19	70.31%	64
51	Oregon St	52	22	70.27%	74
52	Oklahoma	49	21	70.00%	70
52	Temple	49	21	70.00%	70
52	Louisiana	49	21	70.00%	70
55	Kansas	51	22	69.86%	73
56	South Carolina	44	19	69.84%	63
57	Toledo	48	21	69.57%	69
58	Indiana	50	22	69.44%	72
59	Hawaii	54	24	69.23%	78
60	Kent St	38	17	69.09%	55
61	Northwestern	58	26	69.05%	84
62	Tulsa	41	19	68.33%	60
62	ULM	41	19	68.33%	60
64	Texas	43	20	68.25%	63
64	Idaho	43	20	68.25%	63
66	Air Force	51	24	68.00%	75
67	Michigan	50	24	67.57%	74
67	California	50	24	67.57%	74
69	Vanderbilt	43	21	67.19%	64
69	Cincinnati	43	21	67.19%	64
71	Troy	47	23	67.14%	70
72	Texas Tech	49	24	67.12%	73
72	Kentucky	49	24	67.12%	73
74	Nebraska	56	28	66.67%	84
74	Arizona St	52	26	66.67%	78
74	Arkansas St	52	26	66.67%	78
74	Ohio St	48	24	66.67%	72
74	Clemson	48	24	66.67%	72
74	Iowa St	44	22	66.67%	66
74	Kansas St	44	22	66.67%	66
74	Duke	44	22	66.67%	66
74	UAB	44	22	66.67%	66
74	UCF	42	21	66.67%	63
74	West Virginia	36	18	66.67%	54
85	Texas A&M	53	27	66.25%	80
86	UTEP	45	23	66.18%	68
87	Fresno St	35	18	66.04%	53
88	Purdue	50	26	65.79%	76
89	New Mexico	46	24	65.71%	70
90	Syracuse	42	22	65.63%	64
90	Maryland	42	22	65.63%	64
90	TCU	42	22	65.63%	64
93	Virginia Tech	43	23	65.15%	66
94	Akron	41	22	65.08%	63
95	North Carolina	39	21	65.00%	60
96	Utah St	50	27	64.94%	77
97	UNLV	46	25	64.79%	71
98	Rice	44	24	64.71%	68
99	Washington	42	23	64.62%	65
99	Southern Miss	42	23	64.62%	65
101	Iowa	40	22	64.52%	62
102	Western Michigan	34	19	64.15%	53
102	New Mexico St	34	19	64.15%	53
104	Wisconsin	41	23	64.06%	64
104	Alabama	41	23	64.06%	64
106	Ball St	30	17	63.83%	47
107	SMU	35	20	63.64%	55
108	Colorado St	40	23	63.49%	63
108	San Diego St	40	23	63.49%	63
110	Connecticut	31	18	63.27%	49
111	LSU	43	25	63.24%	68
112	Miami (Fla)	41	24	63.08%	65
113	Missouri	37	22	62.71%	59
114	Virginia	42	25	62.69%	67
115	San Jose St	38	23	62.30%	61
116	Middle Tennessee	41	26	61.19%	67
117	Penn St	35	23	60.34%	58
118	NC State	31	21	59.62%	52
119	Colorado	44	31	58.67%	75
120	Nevada	31	23	57.41%	54
121	Notre Dame	41	31	56.94%	72
122	North Texas	35	27	56.45%	62
123	USC	36	28	56.25%	64
124	Navy	38	36	51.35%	74

UTSA is #1 here in % of lettermen returning with 53 of 62 players back (85.48%). This should come as no surprise as they are just a 2nd-year program. I expect big things out of Florida this year and the Gators are #2 with 55 out of 65 lettermen returning (84.62%). At the bottom of the rankings is Navy which returns only 51.35% of their lettermen. This should not come as a concern though to Midshipmen fans as typically the Service Academies are among the lowest when it comes to returning experience. What is surprising is that probable preseason AP #1 USC sits at #123 as they lose 26 lettermen (56.25%) from last year and Notre Dame is #121 losing an incredible 31 lettermen.

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