Most FIRST teams per capita

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by mocat1530

Are you going to update your statistics on a regular basis? Can you calculate a US average for us? To me you are certainly welcome to demonstrate your geekiness on a regular basis!

I don't know about a regular basis, but it seems appropriate to do this analysis again late tomorrow night, just before 2nd regional registration opens. Depending on how the Cards are doing in Game 4 of the Series, I may get to it by midnight or thereabouts.

It also seems appropriate to do the analysis again after registration closes on the first of December. Those will be the really important totals. These preliminary numbers mostly indicate which teams have raised enough money to register early and/or for their preferred events.

As for a US average, I think that including all the states would create some skewed looking results, due to sensitive dependence on small changes in the number of teams. Even so, a few other states should have been included; in the updated analysis below I have added South Carolina, Arizona, Washington, Oregon, and Oklahoma. I have also tried to correct my most egregious error -- omitting the Canadian province of Ontario, which is of course an FRC powerhouse with 36 teams and our largest regional competition! With these additions the total now accounts for 826 teams, which is 88% of the teams registered.

The updated results:

1 NH has 26 registered teams, which is 20.3 teams per million residents.
2 MI has 98 registered teams, which is 10.0 teams per million residents.
3 CT has 28 registered teams, which is 8.4 teams per million residents.
4 KS has 20 registered teams, which is 7.2 teams per million residents.
5 VA has 50 registered teams, which is 6.8 teams per million residents.
6 MO has 38 registered teams, which is 6.6 teams per million residents.
7 MA has 38 registered teams, which is 6.0 teams per million residents.
8 NY has 86 registered teams, which is 4.7 teams per million residents.
9 CO has 20 registered teams, which is 4.5 teams per million residents.
10 NJ has 37 registered teams, which is 4.4 teams per million residents.
11 SC has 17 registered teams, which is 4.2 teams per million residents.
12 OR has 13 registered teams, which is 3.6 teams per million residents.
13 WI has 19 registered teams, which is 3.5 teams per million residents.
14 IN has 20 registered teams, which is 3.2 teams per million residents.
15 OK has 10 registered teams, which is 2.9 teams per million residents.
16 PA has 35 registered teams, which is 2.8 teams per million residents.
17 ON has 36 registered teams, which is 2.8 teams per million residents.
18 AZ has 14 registered teams, which is 2.7 teams per million residents.
19 CA has 85 registered teams, which is 2.5 teams per million residents.
20 FL has 40 registered teams, which is 2.5 teams per million residents.
21 GA has 18 registered teams, which is 2.1 teams per million residents.
22 WA has 13 registered teams, which is 2.1 teams per million residents.
23 OH has 23 registered teams, which is 2.0 teams per million residents.
24 IL has 23 registered teams, which is 1.9 teams per million residents.
25 TX has 19 registered teams, which is 0.9 teams per million residents.