Well, it may be trivial, but it is interesting. It doesn't look (just eyeballing it) that there is much relationship between overall quality of the program and distance players travel to get there. IOW, its not like recruiting from a long ways off is giving people much of an edge. Not surprisingly, Minnesota is almost at the bottom of the list and Alaska at the top - for fairly obvious reasons, I think. But some of the others are - why is Rensselaer so high, just as an example?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Griebel [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 9:54 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: What's your recruiting radius?
>
>
> Chasing again after the annual Hockey-L Useless Information Award, I
> computed how far Division I colleges went to get this year's hockey
> players. Alaska-Anchorage brings Seawolves an average of 1,794 miles
> from their hometowns, eleven times as far as Canisius.
>
> The D1 player who traveled farthest, 5,479 miles, is Colorado
> College's
> Peter Sejna from Liptovski Mikulas, Slovakia. Anchorage could attract
> five players from the Czech Republic because it's just a
> short hop over
> the North Pole, less than 4,800 miles.
>
> Ohio State couldn't find anyone within 150 miles.
>
> Bob Griebel
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>
> MILES FROM PLAYERS' HOMETOWNS TO COLLEGE ARENA:
> Team Total Avg Min Max Roster
> Alaska-Anchorage 50,258 1,794 4 4,772 28
> Alaska-Fairbanks 37,122 1,427 1 2,249 26
> Rensselaer 35,549 1,367 1 4,286 26
> Quinnipiac 33,908 1,304 20 2,661 26
> Colorado College 31,820 1,272 5 5,479 25
> Iona 31,620 1,264 16 2,445 25
> Alabama-Huntsville 33,295 1,233 1 4,930 27
> Mass Lowell 33,133 1,227 12 3,736 27
> Sacred Heart 31,932 1,182 2 3,635 27
> Denver 27,147 1,085 3 5,204 25
> Nebraska-Omaha 28,516 1,056 4 2,600 27
> Boston Univ 27,132 1,004 5 4,104 27
> Dartmouth 27,060 1,002 88 3,251 27
> Air Force 27,723 990 49 2,422 28
> Maine 27,126 968 8 3,840 28
> Brown 28,503 950 33 3,264 30
> Ohio State 23,610 874 151 3,096 27
> Bowling Green 22,663 871 1 1,951 26
> New Hampshire 22,185 821 32 2,598 27
> Findlay 21,323 820 42 4,285 26
> Cornell 22,133 819 45 3,902 27
> Princeton 22,529 804 5 2,406 28
> Bemidji State 20,180 776 70 4,196 26
> Northern Michigan 22,931 764 0 4,052 30
> Providence 18,934 728 4 2,680 26
> Michigan Tech 22,558 727 1 4,281 31
> Wayne State 19,189 685 4 4,952 28
> Lake Superior State 17,469 671 2 2,001 26
> Harvard 16,490 659 2 2,480 25
> Boston College 16,950 651 4 3,924 26
> Wisconsin 15,128 605 0 4,704 25
> American Int'l 14,505 580 10 2,499 25
> Michigan State 14,720 566 10 1,877 26
> Union 16,339 563 13 2,393 29
> St Cloud 17,407 561 46 4,770 31
> Michigan 14,444 555 1 2,952 26
> Western Michigan 14,834 549 61 1,846 27
> Notre Dame 14,234 547 79 2,899 26
> Niagara 14,725 545 3 4,027 27
> Mercyhurst 13,543 541 1 2,996 25
> Merrimack 13,287 531 2 4,084 25
> St Lawrence 15,342 529 1 4,105 29
> Northeastern 15,299 527 6 2,090 29
> Ferris State 13,229 508 1 1,857 26
> Yale 14,059 502 19 2,048 28
> Connecticut 14,907 496 43 2,229 30
> Miami 12,691 470 1 1,983 27
> Colgate 11,271 450 122 2,077 25
> Minn State-Mankato 11,566 444 55 1,256 26
> North Dakota 10,331 430 1 2,274 24
> Minnesota Duluth 11,550 427 1 2,445 27
> Army 10,662 380 22 2,001 28
> Massachusetts 10,787 359 13 4,060 30
> Clarkson 9,545 353 34 3,763 27
> Vermont 10,045 346 4 2,186 29
> Holy Cross 9,961 332 15 3,336 30
> Fairfield 9,682 322 7 1,408 30
> Minnesota 8,146 290 2 4,744 28
> Bentley 8,162 281 12 1,113 29
> Canisius 4,354 161 2 1,240 27
>
>
> FOOTNOTES:
> - Rosters and hometowns are from the USCHO website.
> - Distances are straight-line from published coordinates for hometown
> locations to coordinates of University's rink.
> - Two players from 150 Mile House, BC, may not find their
> homes because
> those coordinates aren't published anywhere.
>
> Some sites for geographic coordinates for place names:
> United States:
> "U.S. Gazetteer" ... http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer
> Files for downloading ...
> http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/places2k.html
> Canada:
> "Welcome to Canadian geographical names" ...
> http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/english/
> World:
> "Names Files of Selected Countries" ...
> http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/cntry_files.html
> "Geonames Query Home Page" ...
> http://gnpswww.nima.mil/geonames/GNS/index.jsp
> Arizona State University's links to "Place Names on the Internet":
> http://www.asu.edu/lib/hayden/govdocs/maps/geogname.htm
>
> If anyone wants formulas for computing great circle distances
> from Point
> 1 to Point 2 using longitude and latitude, email me. I used them in
> Excel and Access and would be glad to share.
>
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