interested mom,
The Perfect Game National is held in June every year, right after the draft. ECP is held late July/Aug and AC is held right after the ECP.
The draft picks that went to all three events (there weren’t that many of them) were counted as a draft pick from all three events. If he went to two of the events, he was counted as a draft pick for the two events he attended. However, in every case excluding a player who attended ECP or AC as a underclassman, the player attended the PG National Showcase first. BTW, many of the ECP and AC scouts also attend the PG National, for the obvious reasons of finding top players for those events. And of course they do!
There are players who attend only one of those three events. Otherwise, the number of draft picks would be identical. But, even though the numbers are higher from the PG National, there are still players who attend ECP or AC who did not attend PGN. Like wise, there were players who attended PGN, but did not attend either ECP or AC.
Regarding the top 6 rounds, the percentages are in the post right before yours. As far as AC and ECP we have not researched the entire draft yet. (all 50 rounds) However we do know that 112 who attended the PG National in June of 2006 were drafted in June of 2007. That percentage is slightly more than 50% of all the players in attendance.
I’m fairly certain that nearly all, if not 100%, of the players from the PG National get college offers, most from the top college programs. I would think AC and ECP would be the same way. After all, those three events get most of the top players in the country and are very selective. In fact, by the time August rolls around, many of these players have already “committed” to a college.
Not sure if that was the information you were looking for.
Just to be clear, the only reason for posting in this thread is because many always mention the top two events of this nature being AC and ECP. We are absolutely in agreement as to the importance and quality of those events. They are run by MLB scouts, have great talent, and they are free of charge except for travel and lodging. They are run back to back, so personally I don’t feel that attending both is a must. However attending one or the other is a must IMO if invited. Nothing wrong with attending both either.
The PG National is in June, so a player attending PG National and one of the others in August just makes more sense, and several players do just that.
Also, remember that the AC has been around a long time, originated by HSBBW poster Bob Williams who now is involved in the Goodwill Games and international baseball. Years ago, when Bob owned the AC, it was by far the number one event for producing high draft picks. It is still a very highest level scouting event, it’s just not the only one anymore. The entire scouting and recruiting community owes a big thank you to Bob Williams for getting all this higher quality stuff started. Then again, the unfortunate side is that there is now thousands of showcases all over the country that really don’t care about finding the most talented players.
One last thing... Both AC and PGN select players from the entire country. The ECP very seldom will have even one player from west of the Mississippi River. So if we are talking about players just from the Eastern part of the USA, the ECP is the best. We try hard to help them in any way possible, not that they need our help, because the people/scouts involved with running ECP are among the very best in the business and most all of them support what we do. We have never heard of a scout involved with ECP who has ever said a bad thing about PG.
ECP and AC, they are both great events. That is why we scout them every year. There's also a reason that they scout our stuff too.