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Reply to "Roster make-up and turn-over year over year"

TPM is right, especially about the seniors.

 

I looked at the D1Baseball.com scoreboard for today and checked the rosters for the teams involved in first five games, which gave five ranked teams and five unranked teams.  Most of the teams had five or fewer seniors. Only one team had eight seniors. As a general rule, the most highly ranked teams don't have many seniors and a fairly high percentage of those seniors were transfers.

 

The most aggressive recruiting teams bring in 18 or more players every year and count on a 50% attrition rate after the first year and a big chunk of the remainder leaving for the pros after their junior year.  

 

"Normal" for a D1 team is a fairly big range: most seem to bring in 10-15 players in a typical year, but the number and mix can vary widely depending on coaching changes and other variables.  At my son's former school, the new coach brought in 24 players his second year, and only one member of my son's recruiting class of 15 is on the roster as a senior this spring.

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