Teams in Upper Classes with Most State Semi Appearances

[OldSchoolLion]

These are teams currently in Classes 5A-8A.  Considered results from 1993-Present, including this year.  In parentheses is the number of state finals won during this time frame.

St Thomas Aquinas 19 (9 titles)

Armwood 13 (3 titles)

Lakeland 11 (5 titles)

Northwestern 10 (5 titles)

Manatee 9 (1 title)

Plant 8 (4 titles)

Lincoln 8 (3 titles)

Naples 8 (2 titles)

Osceola 8 (1 title)

Mainland 8 (1 title)

Deerfield Beach 8 (0 titles)

Miami Central 7 (5 titles)

Apopka 7 (3 titles)

St Augustine 7 (1 title)

American Heritage Plantation 6 (4 titles)

Carol City 6 (4 titles)

Dwyer 6 (2 titles)

Jefferson 6 (1 title)

Lake Wales 6 (0 titles) 

Southridge 5 (2 titles)

Edgewater 5 (0 titles)

Columbus 5 (0 titles)

 

 

 

 

 

[FL_HS_football]

I thinks its great you take the time to compile this data, but was wondering why 1993 and not 1992? The data for at least one team is impacted for both appearance and state title won by going back one year? Perhaps the best way to do this, is something like Laz always does......that is to do it by decades or compile data based on multiple decades?

[Floridatech]

9 hours ago, OldSchoolLion said:

These are teams currently in Classes 5A-8A.  Considered results from 1993-Present, including this year.  In parentheses is the number of state finals won during this time frame.

St Thomas Aquinas 19 (9 titles)

Armwood 13 (3 titles)

Lakeland 11 (5 titles)

Northwestern 10 (5 titles)

Manatee 9 (1 title)

Plant 8 (4 titles)

Lincoln 8 (3 titles)

Naples 8 (2 titles)

Osceola 8 (1 title)

Mainland 8 (1 title)

Deerfield Beach 8 (0 titles)

Miami Central 7 (5 titles)

Apopka 7 (3 titles)

St Augustine 7 (1 title)

American Heritage Plantation 6 (4 titles)

Carol City 6 (4 titles)

Dwyer 6 (2 titles)

Jefferson 6 (1 title)

Lake Wales 6 (0 titles) 

Southridge 5 (2 titles)

Edgewater 5 (0 titles)

Columbus 5 (0 titles)

 

 

 

 

 

In the playoffs STA beat of those teams in the playoffs what dynasty team

[Pipe Dreams]

Ah DP just missed the cut with 4

[OldSchoolLion]

4 hours ago, FL_HS_football said:

I thinks its great you take the time to compile this data, but was wondering why 1993 and not 1992? The data for at least one team is impacted for both appearance and state title won by going back one year? Perhaps the best way to do this, is something like Laz always does......that is to do it by decades or compile data based on multiple decades?

What prompted me to do this exercise was another post about Deerfield Beach.  I was curious how Deerfield compared to other schools in terms of state semi appearances.  I wanted to answer two questions.

What teams have been in a lot of state of semifinals?

Are there other teams like Deerfield that have a poor percentage of winning state titles relative to state semi appearances?

1993 was the first year Deerfield appeared in a state semi and 1993=25 years, so it's a "nice" number....thus I chose 1993. 

If we went back to the beginning of the FHSAA, the teams with 8 or more semi appearances would look very similar-see below.  Carol City and Southridge would join the list.   

I think it is fair to say that any team listed below is part of an elite group, and a certain amount of expectations follow them each year, regardless of how many state titles each has won.  Although Deerfield, Osceola and Mainland have not had much luck winning state titles compared to others on the list, their programs are more successful than over 95% of the large school programs out there today.

 

St Thomas Aquinas 22

Lakeland 15

Armwood 13

Manatee 13

Carol City 11

Northwestern 10

Plant 10

Osceola 9

Southridge 9

Lincoln 8 

Naples 8 

Mainland 8 

Deerfield Beach 8 

 

[OldSchoolLion]

1 hour ago, Floridatech said:

In the playoffs STA beat of those teams in the playoffs what dynasty team

Deerfield, Jefferson, Lakeland, Manatee, Osceola, Dwyer, Plant

[Floridatech]

15 minutes ago, OldSchoolLion said:

Deerfield, Jefferson, Lakeland, Manatee, Osceola, Dwyer, Plant

Very impressive 

[Perspective]

On 12/2/2018 at 10:06 AM, OldSchoolLion said:

I think it is fair to say that any team listed below is part of an elite group, and a certain amount of expectations follow them each year, regardless of how many state titles each has won.  Although Deerfield, Osceola and Mainland have not had much luck winning state titles compared to others on the list, their programs are more successful than over 95% of the large school programs out there today.

 

 

 

Did you just use the "E" word?