Which States Produce the Most HS QB Recruits?

[OldSchoolLion]

I considered currently recruited qb seniors with substantial recruiting attention to make these determinations.  Although Florida has quite a few qb recruits, relatively few have been aggressively pursued by Power 5 schools.  The Pacific Coast states (WA, OR, CA and HI) produced 22% of the recruits.  The number of recruits in Washington was surprising.

In terms of sheer numbers,the states that produce the most highly recruited qb's are:

1. California-33 recruits

2. Texas-31 recruits

3. Florida-18 recruits

4. Georgia-15 recruits

5. Washington-12 recruits

6. Tennessee-11 recruits

7. Alabama-9 recruits

8. Arizona-8 recruits

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Per capita, the states that produce the most highly recruited qb's are: 

1. Alabama

2. Washington 

3. Tennessee

4. Mississippi

5. Louisiana

6. Georgia

7. Oregon

8. South Carolina

[DisabledAccount]

How does this whole per capita work?

 

 

Does it include the entire FL population or just the average of how many high school athletes graduate from FL? 

 

 

[OldSchoolLion]

36 minutes ago, ColumbiaHighFan2017class said:

How does this whole per capita work?

Does it include the entire FL population or just the average of how many high school athletes graduate from FL? 

 

I learned from doing a similar exercise in the past that one can use the overall populations and get very similar results.  When one crunches the numbers, it does not make a huge difference.  Yes, FL has a greater relative population of older folks, but the difference in percentage of 18-and-under in FL versus other states is not that great.  The number of hs students in FL dwarfs that of most states.

Florida was between #10-15 on the per capita list.  Should not be a big surprise, since Florida has not historically produced a large number of high-caliber qb's relative to certain other states.  

[DisabledAccount]

7 minutes ago, OldSchoolLion said:

I learned from doing a similar exercise in the past that one can use the overall populations and get very similar results.  When one crunches the numbers, it does not make a huge difference.  Yes, FL has a greater relative population of older folks, but the difference in percentage of 18-and-under in FL versus other states is not that great.  The number of hs students in FL dwarfs that of most states.

Florida was between #10-15 on the per capita list.  Should not be a big surprise, since Florida has not historically produced a large number of high-caliber qb's relative to certain other states.  

Fair point