Bird Friend
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Adunk, did you get the #s from Verbal Commits? If yes, then the number is actually a little higher for each year. That's because VC removes players from the list who entered the portal but ended up returning to the originating school. I found that out by tracking players we'd been listed as having contacted. I would guess 2021 had about 30-40 kids return and drop out of the portal.The number of kids entering the portal over the past 5 years has doubled. Not quite to 40%. Last year may have been an anomaly with the players being able to xfer without the penalty of sitting out but we'll see if it resorts back to that 21% median.
2018: 883 transfers. 18.9%
2019: 987 transfers 21.2%
2020: 1013 transfers 21.7%
2021: 1729 transfers 37.1%
2022: 138 transfers 0.29%
* Note, these were calculated using 4,654 total D1 scholarships available (not considering extra covid scholarships). 13 per D1 teams. There were probably less as a handful of D1 teams have been added since 2018. So, they should be close. My degree is in mass media, so do with that info what you will.