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Where do college football players come from?

PostPosted: September 11th, 2013, 4:45 pm
by Citronauts_Knights

Re: Where do college football players come from?

PostPosted: September 11th, 2013, 5:40 pm
by Muck FcDisney
Per capita is where its at. :up

Re: Where do college football players come from?

PostPosted: September 11th, 2013, 10:42 pm
by FSUKW
LOL, only 41 states and why is England and Germany not represented....:fsu

Re: Where do college football players come from?

PostPosted: September 12th, 2013, 12:40 am
by LSU62
Muck FcDisney wrote:Per capita is where its at. :up


:2thumbs

Re: Where do college football players come from?

PostPosted: September 12th, 2013, 12:50 am
by frazier9495
Wasn't long ago when Nebraska use to be towards the top on the per capita list :sigh

Re: Where do college football players come from?

PostPosted: September 12th, 2013, 4:38 am
by ScotchFrost97
frazier9495 wrote:Wasn't long ago when Nebraska use to be towards the top on the per capita list :sigh

then we graduated :pimp

Re: Where do college football players come from?

PostPosted: September 12th, 2013, 5:34 am
by frazier9495
ScotchFrost97 wrote:
frazier9495 wrote:Wasn't long ago when Nebraska use to be towards the top on the per capita list :sigh

then we graduated :pimp


:word

Re: Where do college football players come from?

PostPosted: September 12th, 2013, 12:50 pm
by JdPat04
FSUKW wrote:LOL, only 41 states and why is England and Germany not represented....:fsu

The graph above shows the share distribution of recruits from the states (and the District of Columbia) that matter, even a little. I had to trim off the bottom ten states to get the labels to fit and be legible. Over the past six years, the bottom ten states produced a grand total of nine recruits, or an average of 1.4 recruits per year for all of them combined. Engineers and real statistics experts could probably say better, but it looks a lot like an exponential distribution to me.

Re: Where do college football players come from?

PostPosted: September 12th, 2013, 12:54 pm
by JdPat04
Muck FcDisney wrote:Per capita is where its at. :up

Yes it is :up

Re: Where do college football players come from?

PostPosted: September 12th, 2013, 12:54 pm
by JdPat04
LSU62 wrote:
Muck FcDisney wrote:Per capita is where its at. :up


:2thumbs


Before fans from Louisiana or any of the other top states get too filled with pride over the position of their state on the list, they should consider the following: in 2013 American Samoa produced seven FBS recruits on a population of slightly over 55,000, for a rate of 12.6 recruits per 100,000 population. That is almost six times higher than the next highest single year rate for any state. Big time college football programs have only been actively recruiting American Samoa for a couple of years (and only a fraction of FBS teams do so); expect to see that trend continue.

Re: Where do college football players come from?

PostPosted: September 12th, 2013, 1:33 pm
by FSUKW
JdPat04 wrote:
FSUKW wrote:LOL, only 41 states and why is England and Germany not represented....:fsu

The graph above shows the share distribution of recruits from the states (and the District of Columbia) that matter, even a little. I had to trim off the bottom ten states to get the labels to fit and be legible. Over the past six years, the bottom ten states produced a grand total of nine recruits, or an average of 1.4 recruits per year for all of them combined. Engineers and real statistics experts could probably say better, but it looks a lot like an exponential distribution to me.


Uuuuum, thanks.

My post was joking around, but thanks for serious reply.

Re: Where do college football players come from?

PostPosted: September 12th, 2013, 3:00 pm
by Muck FcDisney
LSU62 wrote:
Muck FcDisney wrote:Per capita is where its at. :up


:2thumbs

American Samoa, FTW! :rockin

They make some damn good cookies too! :drool

Re: Where do college football players come from?

PostPosted: September 12th, 2013, 3:10 pm
by frazier9495
Muck FcDisney wrote:
LSU62 wrote:
Muck FcDisney wrote:Per capita is where its at. :up


:2thumbs

American Samoa, FTW! :rockin

They make some damn good cookies too! :drool


:biglol