Analyzing The PIAA State Track & Field Meet

As a retired math teacher and an original computer integrator, numbers have always intrigued me!  One thing I do every year is analyze results of the PIAA Track & Field Meet.  First I looked at the PIAA Districts and compare the results from different sections of the state.  As a review, here is the breakdown of PIAA Districts for all sports - there are 12 districts.

As you can see there are twelve districts.  The most populous are:

District 1 - surrounding Philadelphia

District 3 - surrounding Harrisburg

District 7 - surrounding Pittsburgh

District 11 - the Allentown & Scranton area

District 12 - the city of Philadelphia

There are two classes for track & field AAA(larger school) & AA(smaller school).  Today I am analyzing the AAA schools!  I used the 8 places scoring that the PIAA uses - 1st-10 points, 2nd-8, 3rd-6, 4th-5, 5th-4, 6th-3, 7th-2, & 8th 1 point.  Here is the scoring for AAA Districts for Boys & Girls.

District          Boys Points        Girls Points

1                        267.5                 278.5

2                          26                      26

3                        122                    128.5

4                          20.5                   22

5                           0                        8

6                          10.5                    4

7                        119                    169

8                            0                       0

9                            0                       0

10                         28                     25

11                         62.5                  19

12                         46                     20

A few comments:

1 - District 8 is the city of Pittsburgh.  The have been declining the past 20 years, but this year they had NO points.  I need research what is up in Pittsburgh.

2 - District 9 has NO AAA schools.

3 - District 1 is still dominating.  They do have more athletes, but the track & field tradition is BIG TIME in this area!

4 - The battle for second is usually District 3 & District 7.  And this year was no different.  The girls AAA was a clear District 7 win for second.  

So, the numbers came out to show the usual results.   The power is still focused around Philadelphia.