Sorry for double posting; a election-year idea came to me.
Last year I posted a list of US states sorted by the number of FRC teams per million residents. This year, a more interesting metric might be the number of teams per Electoral College Vote (ECV) -- a measure of political opportunity!
As of this morning, US average is 2.53 registered FRC teams per Electoral College Vote. Five states have more than twice the national average: New Hampshire, Michigan, Hawaii, Oklahoma, and Minnesota.
Code:
State Teams ECV Teams per ECV
NH 29 4 7.25
MI 115 17 6.76
HI 26 4 6.50
OK 42 7 6.00
MN 52 10 5.20
MA 55 12 4.58
VA 58 13 4.46
MO 49 11 4.45
CT 31 7 4.43
NJ 59 15 3.93
KS 23 6 3.83
NY 113 31 3.65
AZ 36 10 3.60
CO 31 9 3.44
NV 17 5 3.40
OR 22 7 3.14
WI 28 10 2.80
MD 27 10 2.70
SC 21 8 2.63
CA 138 55 2.51
IN 27 11 2.45
WA 25 11 2.27
PA 47 21 2.24
DC 6 3 2.00
ID 8 4 2.00
MS 12 6 2.00
LA 17 9 1.89
IL 37 21 1.76
FL 46 27 1.70
GA 25 15 1.67
ND 5 3 1.67
OH 32 20 1.60
ME 5 4 1.25
TX 41 34 1.21
AK 3 3 1.00
DE 3 3 1.00
MT 3 3 1.00
VT 3 3 1.00
WV 4 5 0.80
RI 3 4 0.75
WY 2 3 0.67
NC 9 15 0.60
UT 3 5 0.60
AL 4 9 0.44
IA 3 7 0.43
NM 2 5 0.40
SD 1 3 0.33
TN 3 11 0.27
NE 1 5 0.20
AR 1 6 0.17
KY 1 8 0.13
PR 8 0
Total 1362 538 2.53
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)