[Belfry0304]

After screwing with numbers, I have some stats about every team that went through BMS so far (from Thomas Varney's class to now). Keep in mind these stats are offensive and defensive only no special teams. In that time frame there have been just three freshman starters in those 6 years. That's .5 per class, and average wise one every two years (though they all came 3 straight years) ... if you go with the every 2 years approach we'd be due for one.

Anyways, in that time frame there has been an average of 3 sophomore starters per class. At least two every year in that timeframe (hereby referred to as BMS era) ... most likely candidates to start in 2013 as sophomores would be Austin Gibbs, TJ Dotson, and X Willis. Gonna say 2/3 make the cut this year.

In this era, there's an average of 6.2 junior starters per class. The lowest number is five, with the class of 2010 (headed by Varney & Cisco) being that class. Largely due to the fact that the previous 2008 team was senior heavy (Lee, Elkins, C. Dotson, S. Dotson in skill positions alone, as well as Webb, Coleman, Whetstone on the line. Webb, Hall, Coleman, Dotson, Patrick, Lee, Elkins defensively) ... those five starters were Cisco, Charles, Lovern, Varney, and Patrick. 4 other positions were filled by underclassman. Anyways in relation to this years team there are three incoming juniors who return if you count Keaton Taylor who started 3 different positions. Those returners are Macky Francis, Austin Hatfield, and Keaton Taylor. Dakota Stanley, Ethan Stanley, Kaleb Edwards, and Drew Mullins all have a shot to start at different positions.

And of course, the incoming seniors. The average for starting seniors per class is 8.75. The fewest also goes to the c/o 2010 (senior season 2009) who only had seven but also had by far the fewest players. None to surprising since that team went just 8-4, and was a very young team. These incoming seniors had 8 junior starters (Warren, J. Johnson, Duty, H. Hatfield, C. Johnson, Barnes, Carr, and T. May) HOWEVER, Timmy May quit. So they return 7 starters. Zack Lester figures to start, and others with a chance include Davontae Dari, Cody Bostic, Reed Williamson, Richard Nelson, and several others.

I just thought it was interesting to look at the averages of how many freshman, sophomore, junior, and seniors each class had and how the current kids lineup. They had 8 junior starters while the past 6 years class average has been 8 SENIOR starters so an experienced group returns and is sure to push that average up. The sophomores were right on cue, the average is three sophomore starters per class and that's just what the class of 2015 had. I think it gives you an idea of what to expect for people who don't want to project underclassmen in the starting lineup. This year I'm going to say the freshman come under the average and have 0 starters, but next year I say they go over it and have 4-5 sophomore starters.


This could be completely useless information, I really just like numbers and stats.