A true stat geek has dug through all available rosters in the FCS to calculate for each team:
• Offensive starters lost
• Offensive line starts lost
• Percentage of positive net rushing yards lost
• Percentage of passing yards lost
• Percentage of wide receiver yards lost
The stats include the rushing and passing yards per game from a year ago to put the losses in context.
Defensively, the workup includes:
• Percentage of defensive starters lost
• Percentage of defensive tackling performance
• Percentage of loss from the defensive line, linebackers and defensive backs
The site uses all of the above to make a weighted numerical assessment of losses and then ranks the FCS teams from 1 (least affected) to 124 (most affected). Here's how the Ivies rank:
32 Yale
44 Princeton
68 Dartmouth
82 Columbia
94 Harvard
99 Penn
117 Cornell
124 Brown
Frighteningly (if there's much validity to the numbers) New Hampshire comes in at 16 one year after making it to the national semifinals.
Central Connecticut is at 28 and Holy Cross is listed at 79.
Here's the LINK to the full breakdown.*
* Your mileage may vary ;-)
