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Pretty sweet article from Scout. Some highlights:

 

STATE BREAKDOWN OF 2015 DRAFT

1. Florida (39)
2. Georgia (30)
3. Texas (28)
4. California (26)
5. Alabama (14)
6. Ohio (10)
7t. North Carolina (9)
7t. Pennsylvania (9)
9. Maryland (8)
10. Illinois (7)

 

 

If you take the top 10 producing states in terms of total picks and translated to per-capita scores it looks as follows:

Georgia (2.97)
Alabama (2.86)
Florida (1.96)
Maryland (1.33)
Texas (1.04)
North Carolina (0.9)
Ohio (0.86)
Pennsylvania (0.7)
California (0.67)
Illinois (0.54)

 

• Combine the Florida and Georgia 2015 draft numbers and this duo accounts for 69 of the 256 draft picks, or 27 percent! That’s unreal.

The states of Florida, Georgia, Texas and California produced almost half (123 of the 256) of the draft picks, a total of 48 percent.
The top five states, Florida, Georgia, Texas, California and Alabama, produced 53 percent of all draft picks. Throw in Ohio and that percentage climbs to 57.
The top 10 producing states—Florida, Georgia, Texas, California, Alabama, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Maryland, and Illinois— accounted for 70.3 percent of the draft picks.
Fifteen states and the District of Columbia combined to produce 22 draftees or 8.6 percent of all picks. These states were Oregon, Hawaii, Connecticut, Minnesota, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Indiana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma and Utah.
Massachusetts, Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine, Idaho, West Virginia and New Mexico produced zero draft selections.
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Unfortunately, out of Nebraska and its six border states, five of them are in the bottom two lists of the last quote.

 

And when you expand to the 500 mile radius you get six more states on those last two lists.

 

Kansas, Missouri and Illinois are the only three 500 mile radius states not in one of those last two lists.

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