PCH 2017

[MARS_James]

So I just spent about an hour researching and typing out a response trying to defend Georgia and it's teams using stats comparing them to my own state, which is directly south of them Florida. However it really came across like I was just praising Florida and not really coming to Georgia's defense. If anyone is curious to see stats comparing Florida and the teams it sent to champs to Georgia I have it, and will share it; but it really isn't necessary to what is the point at hand.

Georgia on average is about as competitive as other similar areas when taken as a whole (my stats support this). By similar areas I mean in terms of average age of teams, rough number of teams, and access to supportive funding. Even when you don't factor in the similar areas thing I don't think anyone can say that if you take an average team from another district (someone who consistently ranked around 20th during the season) and stuck them in Georgia they would dominate the Georgia teams.

The issue is (and once again my stats support this) that highly ranked Georgia teams are not on the level of similarly ranked teams from other areas; this leads to what some would see as disappointing showings at champs.

This isn't necessarily anyone's fault either, and is not something that has an easy fix. I don't think bashing teams, the district, or each other is going to make this any more productive.

Like I said above I have some stats comparing Georgia to Florida, and if anyone from any team (Georgia or otherwise) wants some opinions on what could make an area/team more competitive feel free to PM me or make a thread about that, not put it in this thread which was supposed to celebrate the districts 2017 season.