Lakeville Goldy
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I was looking at the 2017 B1G Football Prospectus http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools...-18/misc_non_event/2017FootballProspectus.pdf and saw that all teams except Michigan State reported how many letter winners they retained and lost from last year. There's been a lot of talk on Gopherhole about how all teams lose players and are the Gophers really any worse than any other team, so I decided to put the numbers together in a table.
Obviously I have no way of knowing how letter winners are determined, etc. I'm just using the numbers reported.
The Gophers have the second worst percentage of returning lettermen in the B1G ahead of Illinois. However, they are only one standard deviation below the average (you'd expect ~1/6 of the teams to be one standard deviation below or more), so not like it's way outside of an expected range.
The teams that surprised me are Michigan (didn't they lose like 18 starters?), Wisconsin and Indiana.
So yes, the Gophers have lost a higher percentage of lettermen than any other school besides Illinois, but it's not like they're returning less than 50% or something. Probably not as bad as I was expecting.
PS. Sorry about having to post a picture of the table but I couldn't figure out how to cut and paste out of Excel into the table tool...
Obviously I have no way of knowing how letter winners are determined, etc. I'm just using the numbers reported.
The Gophers have the second worst percentage of returning lettermen in the B1G ahead of Illinois. However, they are only one standard deviation below the average (you'd expect ~1/6 of the teams to be one standard deviation below or more), so not like it's way outside of an expected range.
The teams that surprised me are Michigan (didn't they lose like 18 starters?), Wisconsin and Indiana.
So yes, the Gophers have lost a higher percentage of lettermen than any other school besides Illinois, but it's not like they're returning less than 50% or something. Probably not as bad as I was expecting.
PS. Sorry about having to post a picture of the table but I couldn't figure out how to cut and paste out of Excel into the table tool...