D-I

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New discussion just for fun and information. How many girls in Alabama sign with a D-I program each year? How many pitchers? Just for fun speculation, how many 99 pitchers do you think will sign D-I? I now there are lots of outs to each question, but hopefully we will just see specific answers. It would be nice to track this from 2000-in my case 2017.

[fastptch]

you got to be kidding me?? lol... you, octane and ttown should go out for a drink and discuss all these "what ifs"...

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Finally, we agree on something. FYI Wikipedia defines - "An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site." Looks like I am at the right place.

[Riptide '99]

I am ready for the season to begin. In the words of the King himself, "A little less conversation, a little more action."

Thank you....thank you very much.

[fastptch]

me too so we can all come back with the "what if's" answered... You boys are lots of fun.... We can all find the 99 pitchers whose parents are 5'8 and above....

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Here is a thread from another forum that is discussing a similar subject.

www.pitch2fast.com/fastpitch/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=7310&view=previous

Pretty cool stuff I think. We all know the state of Florida has been a major producer of DI talent in last few years, so its good to read thier perspectives.

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I took a stab at it, although my methods are crude.

410 Alabama High Schools with varsity softball programs
assuming an average of 4 seniors per school per year=1640 seniors

88 Alabama girls playing DI in Alabama(I used only Alabama DI programs so I could define the group easier) also I find it interesting that 19 of the 88 play at UAB.

If I divide 88 by 4 (four years of school)=22/year

22/1640 = .013 or 1.3% of Alabama High School softball players make a DI roster in-state.

Also, of the 9 DI softball programs in the state they have a totatl roster of 168 players of which(as previously stated)88 are in-state kids. This equals 52.3% of in-state DI rosters are made up of Alabama kids unless you take UAB out of the equation and it drops to 46%

What I take from all of this is the DI programs in-state are doing a good job filling rosters with in-state kids and thank goodness for UAB(19 of thier 20 players are from Alabam).

Mississippi State was not factored in but they have 4 Alabama girls on roster.