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Football vs Basketball by the Numbers

Posted on: May 3, 2024 at 05:34:34 CT
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How much harder is it to recruit a Top 20 class in Football versus Basketball?

There are 133 teams in FBS Football (261 total in D1 including FCS).
There are 633 teams in D1 Basketball.

According to the NCAA, about 1,030,000 HS participants in football, and 550,000 in basketball. 3% of those participants go to D1 in football and 1% in basketball. 31,000 football vs 5500 basketball.

5.6 times as many football players go to D1 as basketball.

In terms of numbers of players available to teams:

All D1 teams: FB-118 BB-8.6 or 13.7 times more players for football
FBS teams: FB-232 BB-8.6 or 26.8 times more players for basketball

The Top20 is 15% of D1 Football teams
The Top20 is 3% of D1 Basketball teams

1. There are 27x more football players available to FBS than D1 BB
2. There are 14x more D1 FB than D1 BB

In terms of availablility to D1/FBS 3 BB players is equivalent to 81 or 42 football players.

There are 85 scholarships for FB, 13 for BB. That’s 2.7 HS athletes for each FBS FB scholarship, and 0.67 HS athletes for each D1 BB scholarship. 4 times as many FBS FB vs D1 BB.

Recruiting elite basketball players is harder than elite football players due to 1) availability of players and 2) amount of competition for each player.
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Football vs Basketball by the Numbers - haeffb MU - 5/3 05:34:34
     There are currently 351 D-1 basketball teams - quicksand MU - 5/3 17:26:50
          363 is the number. He just had a typo - wu-tangtiger MU - 5/3 17:46:46
               Oops. Yep. The other numbers are based on 363 (nm) - haeffb MU - 5/3 17:52:53
          and most of them are mid- and low-majors (nm) - zounami MU - 5/3 17:40:33
     Mizzou has had many top 20 classes in basketball, but... - zounami MU - 5/3 16:09:02
          No, it’s because Mizzou hasn’t recruited - haeffb MU - 5/3 17:59:08
               Correct. (nm) - go tigers MU - 5/3 23:25:16
               it's because recruiting in basketball is much easier... - zounami MU - 5/3 18:40:08
                    There are fewer good players to be had - haeffb MU - 5/3 20:03:18
                         lol, you think Mizzou competes with schools like Wofford - zounami MU - 5/3 21:11:14
          Apparently Drinkwitz is the next Bear Bryant from what I - Lovely Rita UW - 5/3 17:29:32
               you sound jealous (nm) - zounami MU - 5/3 17:56:30
                    No. I am as excited as you are for him to win his - Lovely Rita UW - 5/3 23:43:27
                         You realize the SEC beats on each other week in week out - Iron DUKE - 5/4 13:12:38
                         we easily crushed 11-1 Ohio State, so hopefully... - zounami MU - 5/3 23:55:58
                              Perhaps I misremember, was it 16 OSU opt-outs including - Lovely Rita UW - 5/4 00:26:04
                                   Funny how no one remembers our 3 best D players being out - MoGold MU - 5/4 13:18:14
                                        It's only a KU narrative. They jealously try to downplay it. - zounami MU - 5/4 18:29:33
                                   Yes you do. It was 3 and their QB hit the transfer portal... - BandG MU - 5/4 00:43:39
                                        It’s coming back to me. 3rd string true freshman was the - Lovely Rita UW - 5/4 08:32:20
                                             I guess it doesnt come back to you that MU defense not only - mu95como MU - 5/5 08:57:14
                                             Mizzou was also missing 2 of its best players. (nm) - zounami MU - 5/4 18:30:14
                                             According to people like you Blue Bloods just reload w/5* - MoGold MU - 5/4 13:21:35
                                                  KU fans can't stand it. They envy Mizzou's success... - zounami MU - 5/4 18:32:55
          Except there aren’t many top 20 classes - wu-tangtiger MU - 5/3 16:16:11
               There are 20 top 20 classes every year in every sport (nm) - TheWildcat MU - 5/3 16:30:35
                    How many does Mizzou have? - wu-tangtiger MU - 5/3 16:40:39
                         Oh I dunno, probably 4-5 this millennium. (nm) - TheWildcat MU - 5/3 16:51:38
                              sounds about right... we had 0 in FB until Drink arrived (nm) - zounami MU - 5/3 17:55:50
     HS basketball players are more skilled at their sport. - shorty MU - 5/3 09:32:19
          Mahomes is Mahomes much in credit to baseball playing(nm) - raskolnikov MU - 5/3 17:50:58
          no - JayHoaxH8r MU - 5/3 17:19:40
          His info distinguished how many were D1 caliber - alwaysright MU - 5/3 11:05:40
     Recruiting is subjective - winning is reality. It's harder - alstl MU - 5/3 07:32:25
          correct (nm) - zounami MU - 5/3 16:06:52




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