[Mark McLeod]

I can probably find a similar area team-#-wise, but I think using Ontario last year might have more relevance, due to economic/societal/government/union/etc. differences.

This year's Ontario team loss is quite a bit higher than last year - about 22% higher.

In 2012 there were 78 Ontario teams. An overall gain of 20% on the previous season.
10 teams were lost.
Between 2012 and 2013 there was only a one team difference in potential rookies dropping out, so that's probably not significant.
So, in Ontario that translates into a 15.4% loss of veteran teams in 2012. By the way, that was about 6% worse than the average veteran loss.

Currently, for 2013 there are 29 teams missing and 72 registered. An overall loss of 7.6%.
So in 2013 there is a 37.2% loss of veteran teams. Almost 29% worse than the across-the-board average veteran team loss of 8.5%.

The # of rookie teams was very similar- 21 in 2012 vs. 23 in 2013.

Here are the Ontario teams that didn't play in 2012, but did play in 2011:

1006 Port Perry, ON, Canada
1312 Walkerton, ON, Canada
2361 Richmond Hill, ON, Canada
2609 Guelph, ON, Canada
2670 Toronto, ON, Canada
3040 Toronto, ON, Canada
3563 Innisfil, ON, Canada
3590 Toronto, ON, Canada
3664 Burlington, ON, Canada
3698 Mississauga, ON, Canada



Almost 2012 rookies who didn't stick around:

Mississauga, ON Canada
Toronto, ON Canada