InsideLB
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I got curious about the class distribution of our team. The above is a pivot table from Excel. It isn't perfect because somehow it only had 84 scholly players (I still included, Hankins, Lamont Simmons, and JJ Green).
Here was the distribution of college football experience in years coming into the season:
30% of team had 0 years of college football experience
24% had 1 year of college football experience
12% had 2 years of experience
20% had 3 years of experience
14% had 4 years of experience
The average player had 1.22 years of experience, the median player had 1 year of experience.
Mostly I am interested in whether there is a positive correlation between avg years experience playing college ball and special teams production. Navy Nuke might be the man for this if he's got some time on his hands and experience data is available somewhere. Of course how kickers perform is a huge modifier, I'd think.
It would also be interesting to compare last year's roster's experience to this year's. Our staff that looks terrible now is the same one that looked like geniuses last year. Since the staff was 100% retained the hypothesis would be either they forgot how to coach or we lost a lot of physical maturity, experience, and leadership.
I'm afraid I'm out of time but maybe somebody can hunt up last year's roster, drop it into excel, and crank out a pivot to compare....