I am always looking for different ways in how to analyze a team for the upcoming season especially a team’s experience coming back.

In today’s blog I took my 2012 postseason All-Conference teams and figured out which players were coming back for 2013 and which players either graduated or left early for the NFL Draft for each team, which you can find in my 2013 Spring Guide.

I then assigned a point total for each team. For example, 1st-Team All-Conference was 7 worth points, 2nd team All-Conference was 6 points and 3rd team All-Conference was 5 points. A team would receive 7 points for each player it has returning that was 1st-Team All-Conference and I would deduct 7 points for each player it lost that was 1st-Team All-Conference. The same was done for the 2nd and 3rd-Teams.

I then subtracted out the differences and came up with a total points column that would evaluate a team’s experience level coming back with regards to their All-Conference performers. The teams with more points naturally are more experienced while the teams with negative point totals means that they lost far more players than what they have returning.

Here are the Top 20 Teams with regards to experience coming back from my All-Conference teams.

All-Conference Players Coming Back Pts

Ohio St comes in at #1 with 42 points as the Buckeyes have 10 players back that made my postseason All-Big Ten team while they only lost 3. East Carolina came in at number 2 with Toledo with 39 points as they return 8 All-CUSA players and lost just 1 while the Rockets return 9 All-MAC performers and lose just 2. A quick note on a team like West Virginia is that Tavon Austin was counted on 3 separate occasions because not only was he a 1st-Tm All-B12 WR, but also a 3rd-Tm KR and 3rd-TM PR. The same would go for any other all-purpose player that appeared multiple times on my postseason All-Conference teams.