Daily Blog • June 11, 2014	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. This year, the low’s were Western Michigan with just 46 while UCF had 50 and Fresno St 53. In 2007, Ohio broke all records with an amazing 91 letters given out while Hawaii had 90! Last year, Ole Miss was number one with 87 total letters given out while Army was #2 with 84. As far as percentages go, South Carolina leads the way with an impressive 85.29% as 58 of their 68 letterman from last year return. At the bottom is Oklahoma St who loses an incredible 32 letterman and return just 38 (54.29%).

% of Letterman Returning

		Letterman	Letterman	Total	Letterman
Rank	Team	Returning	Lost	Letterman	%
1	South Carolina	58	10	68	85.29%
2	UTSA	55	10	65	84.62%
3	Mississippi St	57	12	69	82.61%
4	Air Force	63	15	78	80.77%
5	Tulsa	53	13	66	80.30%
6	Marshall	59	15	74	79.73%
7	Northwestern	55	14	69	79.71%
8	FIU	54	14	68	79.41%
9	Miami, Oh	50	13	63	79.37%
10	Ball St	48	13	61	78.69%
11	West Virginia	47	13	60	78.33%
12	Eastern Michigan	54	15	69	78.26%
13	UCF	39	11	50	78.00%
14	Memphis	53	15	68	77.94%
15	Louisiana	61	18	79	77.22%
16	Old Dominion	44	13	57	77.19%
17	Wake Forest	54	16	70	77.14%
18	Syracuse	57	18	75	76.00%
18	Colorado	57	18	75	76.00%
20	Toledo	47	15	62	75.81%
21	Minnesota	50	16	66	75.76%
22	North Carolina	46	15	61	75.41%
23	Virginia Tech	54	18	72	75.00%
23	Texas A&M	54	18	72	75.00%
23	Illinois	48	16	64	75.00%
23	Wyoming	45	15	60	75.00%
27	Maryland	53	18	71	74.65%
28	Bowling Green	49	17	66	74.24%
29	Oklahoma	48	17	65	73.85%
30	Texas	45	16	61	73.77%
30	Idaho	45	16	61	73.77%
32	Auburn	53	19	72	73.61%
32	Virginia	53	19	72	73.61%
34	Central Michigan	47	17	64	73.44%
35	LSU	44	16	60	73.33%
36	Georgia Southern	57	21	78	73.08%
37	Bouse St	46	17	63	73.02%
38	Appalachian St	40	15	55	72.73%
39	TCU	47	18	65	72.31%
40	Iowa	41	16	57	71.93%
41	UNLV	51	20	71	71.83%
42	Tulane	48	19	67	71.64%
43	Oregon St	53	21	74	71.62%
44	Southern Miss	57	23	80	71.25%
45	Cincinnati	47	19	66	71.21%
46	SMU	42	17	59	71.19%
47	Indiana	59	24	83	71.08%
48	Middle Tennessee	49	20	69	71.01%
49	New Mexico	46	19	65	70.77%
50	Northern Illinois	48	20	68	70.59%
50	Washington	48	20	68	70.59%
52	Kent St	43	18	61	70.49%
53	Texas Tech	50	21	71	70.42%
54	Arizona	45	19	64	70.31%
54	Stanford	45	19	64	70.31%
56	Army	59	25	84	70.24%
57	Miami, Fl	56	24	80	70.00%
57	Florida	49	21	70	70.00%
57	Louisville	42	18	60	70.00%
57	USF	42	18	60	70.00%
61	Baylor	51	22	73	69.86%
62	Fresno St	37	16	53	69.81%
63	UAB	46	20	66	69.70%
63	WKU	46	20	66	69.70%
65	Penn St	41	18	59	69.49%
66	Kentucky	50	22	72	69.44%
67	Vanderbilt	43	19	62	69.35%
68	UCLA	52	23	75	69.33%
69	San Jose St	45	20	65	69.23%
70	Troy	56	25	81	69.14%
71	Michigan St	47	21	68	69.12%
72	Ole Miss	60	27	87	68.97%
73	Georgia	51	23	74	68.92%
73	Navy	51	23	74	68.92%
75	Georgia Tech	44	20	64	68.75%
75	Arkansas	44	20	64	68.75%
77	Michigan	46	21	67	68.66%
78	Alabama	48	22	70	68.57%
78	Hawaii	48	22	70	68.57%
80	Ohio St	39	18	57	68.42%
81	Ohio	45	21	66	68.18%
81	BYU	45	21	66	68.18%
81	Houston	45	21	66	68.18%
84	Rutgers	44	21	65	67.69%
85	USC	48	23	71	67.61%
86	Clemson	54	26	80	67.50%
87	Akron	39	19	58	67.24%
88	Duke	43	21	64	67.19%
89	Buffalo	49	24	73	67.12%
90	Colorado St	44	22	66	66.67%
90	UTEP	44	22	66	66.67%
92	Notre Dame	41	21	62	66.13%
93	Connecticut	39	20	59	66.10%
94	Wisconsin	48	25	73	65.75%
95	Pittsburgh	42	22	64	65.63%
96	Florida St	40	21	61	65.57%
97	ULM	36	19	55	65.45%
98	Utah	53	28	81	65.43%
99	Arkansas St	47	25	72	65.28%
100	North Texas	37	20	57	64.91%
101	Nevada	38	21	59	64.41%
102	Oregon	41	23	64	64.06%
103	East Carolina	48	27	75	64.00%
104	Utah St	42	24	66	63.64%
105	FAU	40	23	63	63.49%
106	South Alabama	45	26	71	63.38%
107	Rice	43	25	68	63.24%
108	San Diego St	36	21	57	63.16%
109	Purdue	41	24	65	63.08%
110	Massachusetts	34	20	54	62.96%
111	Missouri	39	24	63	61.90%
112	Temple	34	21	55	61.82%
113	California	50	31	81	61.73%
114	Texas St	45	28	73	61.64%
115	Washington St	36	23	59	61.02%
116	Iowa St	40	26	66	60.61%
117	Nebraska	46	30	76	60.53%
118	NC State	35	23	58	60.34%
119	Kansas St	42	28	70	60.00%
120	Tennessee	43	29	72	59.72%
121	Boston College	35	24	59	59.32%
122	New Mexico St	37	26	63	58.73%
123	Georgia St	35	25	60	58.33%
124	Arizona St	37	28	65	56.92%
125	Western Michigan	26	20	46	56.52%
126	Kansas	32	25	57	56.14%
127	Louisiana Tech	36	29	65	55.38%
128	Oklahoma St	38	32	70	54.29%

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