2020 PIAA Individual State Wrestling Championship

2020 PIAA Heat Maps

Check out where the talent is located in the state of Pennsylvania and find out which regions and districts are best.

Mar 10, 2020 by JD Rader

It’s one of the best state tournaments in the country. Some of the best kids in the nation come from all over the state to Hershey. I’m going to use a few tools to see where the best kids come from and what part of the state is the best.

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First of all, let’s take a look at the top few team scores.

AA

1. Notre Dame GP 114

2. Montoursville 103

3. Southern Columbia 98.5

AAA

1. Bethlehem Catholic 110.5

2. Nazareth 88.5

3. Waynesburg 88

Now, a wonderful peach of technology...heat maps! The first map represents all of the state placers combined across both classes. Hot spots are accumulated by mapping out tournament placement points from every state placer. Meaning, champions receive 20 points and 8th place finishers receive 5.5. The more points in an area, the hotter the spot.

Both Classes

Outside of the north central area, the talent is pretty well spread out throughout the entire state with the strongest cluster coming out of the Lehigh Valley.

AA

Once again the Lehigh Valley is well represented with Notre Dame. Central PA is represented by St. Joseph’s Catholic and champion Gage McClenahan from Bald Eagle Area and the Williamsport area gets a boost with Montoursville and Southern Columbia.

AAA

Due to Bethlehem Catholic, Nazareth, Easton, and Northampton the Lehigh Valley has the best cluster once again.

Regional Breakdown

If you’ve ever wondered what Region (the state qualifying tournament) is the toughest, look no further. I assigned placement points to every placer, just like in the heat maps above to show which regions scored the most.

AA

Region	Champs	Placers	Placement Points
Southwest	6	38	456
Northeast	4	23	282
Northwest	2	26	282
Southeast	2	24	282

Oddly enough, the Northeast, Northwest, and Southeast Regions all scored the same amount of points. The Southwest Region was head and shoulders above the rest.

AAA

Region	Champs	Placers	Placement Points
Southwest	6	36	468
Northeast	3	24	272
Southeast	1	19	204
Southcentral	2	18	192
Northwest	2	15	166

Just like AA, the Southwest Region was head and shoulders above the rest. The Southwest Region had double the amount of champs as second place Northeast and almost twice as many placement points.