How many MCLA players nationwide?

[Sonny]

If we have right at 200 teams nationwide.... How many players do you think we have, on average, per team?

Is 25 players per team a good figure to use? Or is that too conservative? For every team we have out there that is bursting at the seams (40+), I'm sure we have teams struggling with 15 guys or so.

200 teams x 20 per team = 4000 players
200 teams x 25 per team = 5000 players
200 teams x 30 per team = 6000 players

Just trying to come up with a realistic figure for marketing purposes. I know we won't be 100% scientific.

[John Paul]

Probably data Daryl can easily give you from the rosters on the mcla site.

[mholtz]

for 2006: 5524 total players in the database. There are some "not so great" rosters in there, but this data should just about mirror Daryl's data.

[DWF]

Matt you were very close. The official total is 5550 players registered in the MCLA for last season. There were also 187 teams in the MCLA which gives us an average of 29.6 players per team.

And you and Sonny are also correct about many teams with 40+ players on their roster and other teams with barely enough players to field a team.

Daryl

[A.J. Stevens]

Who had the largest roster & how many?

[UofMLaxGoalie11]

And you and Sonny are also correct about many teams with 40+ players on their roster and other teams with barely enough players to field a team.

It probably follows a normal distribution pretty closely. That AP stats class sure has come in handy.

[mholtz]

I'd guess that CSU had a pretty big roster last year.

This year we are carrying 46 at MSU which is larger than ever before.

Not sure about other teams.

[LaxRef]

And you and Sonny are also correct about many teams with 40+ players on their roster and other teams with barely enough players to field a team.

It probably follows a normal distribution pretty closely. That AP stats class sure has come in handy.

Well, except (I hope) the random variable "number of players on roster" is discrete and nonnegative and the normal distribution is continuous and has positive probability for all real values. So that normal distribution is going to assign positive probability to events like "The roster size of a randomly selected team is between 29.1 and 29.9."

[Sonny]

A wise MCLA coach once told me once that he finally started to have tryouts and player cuts when he got over 50 committed guys each year because 48 was the maximum # he could take on the road. 48 was the maximum number of seats on the bus he could allocate toward the players leaving 5 more seats for coaching staff, trainer, and/or managers on a 53-seat bus.

[mholtz]

A wise MCLA coach once told me once that he finally started to have tryouts and player cuts when he got over 50 committed guys each year because 48 was the maximum # he could take on the road. 48 was the maximum number of seats on the bus he could allocate toward the players leaving 5 more seats for coaching staff, trainer, and/or managers on a 53-seat bus.

Thank god for 55 passenger busses!

Coaches still get their own seat.