Wednesday, July 26, 2017

A Few Numbers To Consider

Pounding away on the BGA Premium preview series I worked up the following five-year records for Ivy League teams and Dartmouth's 2017 nonconference opponents:

OVERALL
Harvard 43-7 (.860)
Dartmouth 33-17 (.660)
Princeton 31-19 (.620)
Brown 27-23 (.540)
Penn 26-24 (.520)
Yale 24-26 (.480)
Cornell 13-37 (.260)
Columbia 8-42 (.160)

IVY LEAGUE
Harvard 29-6 (.829)
Penn 23-12 (.657)
Dartmouth 22-13 (.629)
Princeton 22-13 (.629)
Brown 16-19 (.457)
Yale 15-20 (.429)
Cornell 8-27 (.229)
Columbia 5-30 (.143)

AVERAGE IVY LEAGUE FINISH
Harvard 1.6
Penn 2.6
Princeton 3.0
Dartmouth 3.4
Brown 4.0
Yale 4.6
Cornell 6.6
Columbia 7.0

NONCONFERENCE OVERALL
Sacred Heart 33-25 (.569)
Holy Cross 20-37 (.351)
Stetson 13-32 (.289)

NONCONFERENCE LEAGUE
Sacred Heart (NEC) 14-18 (.438)
Holy Cross (PL) 10-18 (.357)
Stetson (PFL) 7-25 (.219)

A reminder that signups have begun for BGA Premium. Coverage of the 2017 season will kick off with the first opponent preview on Aug. 13 and as there has been for the past 12 years, there will be at least one full story on the site every day until the season wrap on Nov. 20.
Princeton has received a commitment from a four-star quarterback ranked by ESPN as the 193rd best player in the country, the highest-ranked Ivy League recruit since ESPN began its ranking in 2009. Brevin White of Lancaster, Calif., chose Princeton over offers from Washington, Tennessee, Oregon State, Arizona State and Utah among others. Find the ESPN story about White's choice HERE.

(Thanks for the tip ;-)

For those of you keeping score, That Certain Dartmouth '14 has reached Yosemite National Park at Tuolomne Meadows. That's at mile 942 of the Pacific Crest Trail.