The NCAA has capped the penalty at 10 percent of the maximum number of scholarships for each sport; for football, which has 85 scholarships, that would be rounded up to nine.
When can a team begin losing scholarships?
A team could face penalties next school year and, if it does, must take the scholarship hit at the first available opportunity. So a football coach would have to react accordingly by the February national signing date.
How are the ratings calculated?
Each scholarship athlete can earn two points per semester, one for meeting academic eligibility standards and one for returning for the next term. So, a perfect score would be four. Points for scholarship athletes are totaled, divided by the maximum total possible and multiplied by 1,000.
What is a "confidence boundary"?
Eventually, the APR will be based on statistics from four school years. But with only two years of data, the NCAA is building in a margin of error that lessens the impact a departing athlete might have on a sport that doesn't have many scholarship athletes. The confidence boundary is expected to be phased out as more years of data are added.
