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With the All-Ivy League team announced yesterday, here's a numerical way of looking at what the voting tells us. Feel free to bicker about the "valuation" points but they are consistent from team to team, so they are instructive regardless.

Editor's note: Corrections welcome because I'm dizzy from looking at this stuff ;-)

All-Ivy League Players Returning
Dartmouth 9 (4 offense, 4 defense, 1 special teams)
Princeton 8 (5 offense, 2 defense, 1 special teams)
Yale 7 (3 offense, 3 defense, 1 special teams)
Harvard 6 (3 offense, 2 defense, 1 special teams)
Cornell 4 (2 offense, 1 defense, 1 special teams)
Penn 3 (1 offense, 2 defense)
Brown 2 (1 defense, 1 special teams)
Columbia 2 (2 defense)

All-Ivy League Players Lost
Brown 11 (6 offense, 4 defense, 1 special teams)
Princeton 9 (4 offense, 5 defense)
Harvard 9 (3 offense, 5 defense, 1 special teams)
Dartmouth 7 (3 offense, 4 defense)
Cornell 5 (3 offense, 2 defense)
Penn 4 (1 offense, 3 defense)
Yale 3 (2 offense, 1 defense)
Columbia 2 (1 defense, 1 special teams)

Offense Player Valuation Points Returning
(First team worth 5 points, second team worth 3, HM worth 1)
Princeton 17 (2 first, 2 second, 1 HM)
Harvard 9 (1 first, 1 second, 1 HM)
Yale 9 (1 first, 1 second, 1 HM)
Dartmouth 8 (1 first, 3 HM)
Penn 5 (1 first)
Cornell 2 (2 HM)
Columbia 0
Brown 0

Defense Player Valuation Points Returning

(First team worth 5 points, second team worth 3, HM worth 1)

Dartmouth 12 (4 second)

Harvard 11 (2 first, 1 HM)

Princeton 10 (2 first)

Yale 7 (2 second, 1 HM)

Penn 6 (1 first, 1 HM)

Columbia 4 (1 second, 1 HM)

Brown 1 (1 HM)

Cornell 1 (1 HM)

Special Teams Player Valuation Points Returning

(First team worth 5 points, second team worth 3, HM worth 1)
Brown 5 (1 first)
Cornell 5 (1 first)
Harvard 4 (1 second, 1 HM)
Princeton 3 (1 second)
Dartmouth 1 (1 HM)
Yale 1 (1 HM)
Columbia 0
Penn 0

Offense Player Valuation Points Lost
(First team worth 5 points, second team worth 3, HM worth 1)
Brown 22 (2 first, 4 second)
Princeton 14 (2 first, 1 second, 1 HM)
Harvard 11 (1 first, 2 second)
Dartmouth 10 (2 first)
Cornell 8 (1 first, one second)
Yale 4 (1 second, 1 HM)
Penn 5 (1 first)
Columbia 0

Defense Player Valuation Points Lost
(First team worth 5 points, second team worth 3, HM worth 1)
Harvard 19 (3 first, 1 second, 1 HM)
Brown 18 (3 first, 1 second)
Princeton 15 (1 first, 3 second 1 HM)
Dartmouth 12 (2 first, 2 HM)
Penn 7 (2 second, 1 HM)
Cornell 4 (1 second, 1 HM)
Columbia 3 (1 second)
Yale 1 (1 HM)

Special Teams Player Valuation Points Lost

(First team worth 5 points, second team worth 3, HM worth 1)
Brown 5 (1 first)
Columbia 5 (1 first)
Harvard 3 (1 second)

Net Player Valuation Points 
Yale +12 (17 returning, 5 lost)
Princeton +1 (30 returning, 29 lost)
Dartmouth -1  (21 returning, 22 lost)
Penn -1 (11 returning, 12 lost)
Columbia -4 (4 returning, 8 lost)
Cornell -4 (8 returning, 12 lost)
Harvard -9  (24 returning, 33 lost)
Brown -39 (6 returning, 45 lost)

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The final regular-season Gridiron Power Index for Dartmouth and teams of interest this year and next:

15. Harvard (17.29)
23. Princeton (23.14)
46. Dartmouth (40.71)
52. Brown (44.29)
57. Yale (48.29)
67T. Penn (55.14)
95. Cornell (74.43)
120. Columbia (93.29)

19. New Hampshire (19.57)
66. Butler (54.86)
67T. Bucknell (55.14)
89T. Holy Cross (72.71)
107. Central Conn (83.57)

CONFERENCE RANKING:
Rank, League, Total Average
1. Missouri Valley Football Conference (27.11) 
2. Colonial Athletic Association (34.23) 
3. Southland Conference (35.46) 
4. Ohio Valley Conference (37.94) 
5. Big Sky Conference (43.65) 
6. Southern Conference (46.90) 
7. Ivy League (49.57) 
8. Big South Conference (51.71) 
9. Patriot League (56.92) 
10. Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (63.21) 
11. Independents (64.41) 
12. Northeast Conference (67.92) 
13. Pioneer Football League (78.38) 
14. Southwestern Athletic Conference (79.76)