Friday, December 02, 2016

Silly Season Stuff

All-Ivy League Football Players Graduating/Returning By School
(Because we don't know about potential fifth-years, all are referred to as graduating)

Brown graduating: 4 first team, 2 second team, 1 honorable mention
Brown returning: 0 first team, 0 second team, 0 honorable mention

Columbia graduating: 1 first team, 4 second team, 0 honorable mention
Columbia returning: 1 first team, 2 second team, 0 honorable mention

Cornell graduating: 1 first team, 1 second team, 3 honorable mention
Cornell returning: 2 first team, 0 second team, 1 honorable mention

Dartmouth graduating: 2 first team, 0 second team, 3 honorable mention
Dartmouth returning: 0 first team, 2 second team, 3 honorable mention

Harvard graduating: 3 first team, 1 second team, 2 honorable mention
Harvard returning: 2 first team, 3 second team, 2 honorable mention

Penn graduating: 2 first team, 1 second team, 0 honorable mention
Penn returning: 4 first team, 4 second team, 3 honorable mention

Princeton graduating: 3 first team, 4 second team, 4 honorable mention
Princeton returning: 3 first team, 1 second team, 2 honorable mention

Yale graduating: 0 first team, 0 second team, 4 honorable mention
Yale returning: 0 first team, 2 second team, 3 honorable mention

Keeping in mind that assigning relative value to All-Ivy players is hardly scientific, we'll go ahead anyway and for argument's sake give three points for a first-team player, two for second-team and one for honorable mention. That being the case, here's the plus/minus for each Ivy League team heading into 2017:

All-Ivy "Points" Returning
Penn 23
Harvard 14
Princeton 13
Columbia 7
Cornell 7
Dartmouth 7
Yale 7
Brown 0

All-Ivy "Points" Lost
Yale 4
Cornell 8
Penn 8
Dartmouth 9
Columbia 11
Harvard 13
Brown 17
Princeton 21

All-Ivy "Points" Differential
Penn plus 15
Yale plus 3
Harvard plus 1
Cornell minus 1
Dartmouth minus 2
Columbia minus 4
Princeton minus 8
Brown minus 17

Green Alert Take: What does it all amount to? Not even the proverbial hill of beans, but it's kind of fun to debate ;-)
You may have seen this before:


This is kind of fun. It's a high school football team from California doing the mannequin challenge before a trick play where the center snaps the ball through the quarterback's legs: