Top Girls Fastpitch Softball States - were would your State be Rank?

[Louuuuu]

Okay, here's a philosophical question - maybe better answered by SoCal, JoeA, HilliardDad, Karen Linder, etc..:

- Do players from California get more opportunities in this part of the country because of their reputation alone?

- Also, do Midwest/East Coast colleges add Cali players to boost their programs' reputation?

 

[manitoudan]

Someone on UCS looked up the rosters of top 25 teams and then excluded players with little playing time - http://robocoach.websitetoolbox.com/post/composition-of-top-25-di-teams-8053719?pid=1291751289

I made a list of "Key Players", those that had at least 30 at bats and at least 40 innings pitched. Also, some key players are injured or for some reason aren't playing this year, so I added them as well. The only ones are Kasey Fagan, Danica Mercado, and Tori Finucane.

There were 337 players total on the 27 teams that were "key players".

California- 110 (32.6%)
Texas-33 (9.8%)
Florida- 26 (7.7%)
Georgia- 18 (5.3%)
Alabama- 13 (3.9%)
Missouri- 11 (3.3%)
Louisiana, Kansas, and Minnesota- 9 (2.7%)
South Carolina, Arizona, Illinois, Mississippi, and Virginia- 8 (2.4%)
Oregon and Washington- 5 (1.5%)
Tennessee, Nebraska, Hawaii- 4 (1.2%)
Oklahoma, Ohio, New Mexico, Kentucky, Michigan, New Jersey- 3 (0.8%)
Iowa, Indiana, North Carolina, Maryland, New York- 2 (0.5%)
Idaho, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Canada, and Australia- 1 (0.3%)

Heck I can name three off the top of my head playing rather key roles that were Ohio players Alvelo , Lilly and Moran ( starting IF for JMU) , but I guess KY gets credit for Moran because of her address even though she played most of her career as a buckeye ? And surely I'm forgetting someone off the list ?

 

[manitoudan]

or is Illinois getting credit for Alvelo and Lilly ? Being Bandits at older age groups .

 

[Run26]

Another concerning element to this analysis is he used the top 27 D1 teams and it didn't include any Ohio colleges/universities. Pretty much tells you a lot right there.

Florida, Michigan, Auburn, TAMU, UL, LSU, Oregon, Alabama, James Madison, Washington, Florida St, Georgia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Missouri, UCLA, Notre Dame, Arizona, Tennessee, Baylor, Arizona St, Minnesota, Fresno St, Oregon St, Mississippi St, Florida Atlantic, and Nebraska.

 

[manitoudan]

A list that suggest Kansas , Mn , Neb and Hawaii as being " better " than Ohio by any sort of analysis is a stretch .