@flyingcement and yours truly have teamed up to bore you to tears knock your socks off with our combined wrestling wrestling data sets.
Warning: one of us claims to defy the laws of physics and the other can't tell his ass from his elbow, so take it for what it is worth.
Using the airborne concrete data listing the hometown state of every D1 wrestler, first we present where all the wrestlers are coming from. The first graph shows the count of wrestlers by hometown state.
We already knew about Pennsylvania high school wrestling and why recruiting the NE is so important. But the number of wrestlers coming out of California cannot be ignored. However, this is just half of the story. If I have to fly all the way to California I will need to sift through a lot of people to find the wrestlers. Will it be worth my time? OK, let's see what things look like when we normalize for population.
I guess I need to find a connecting flight to California, preferably one with a stop over in Iowa. And every team needs to have a recruiter stationed in Alaska.
More to come. I will fold the expected points data in with the location data to see where the points are coming from at NCAAs.
Any other ideas? I am open to persuasion.