Does anyone know where I could find the numbers of high school players that are throwing 90+ mph right now, or last year. If not how about numbers on velocity in general, it has to do with collecting data for a report as I feel people are throwing harder, any help is great.
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A solid number through identifying individuals might be tough to compile and would likely miss a decent portion if you attempt to compile various sets of data (PG, PBR, etc). For a quick and easy approach, I think the percentiles found on the PG website might give you some decent starting percentages that you could extrapolate.
Perhaps if you tracked the 80th percentile for various classes over the past 5-10 years you could easily demonstrate that the MPH associated with a given percentile has moved up. Not sure what access PG provides with the various levels, but some large data dump would be especially helpful as opposed to looking up individual events and attempting to combine.
Are pitchers throwing harder now? I’m 60. I throw just as hard as I did in college. The ball just arrives a lot later now.
Good luck. As mentioned above PG is prob best place to start and i believe they post the velo numbers for pitchers from Jupiter so you can get a snapshot from there as well.
I seem to recall someone either asking for this or doing this in the past. You may try to search velocity data in the search bar.
I would use this page at PG and just change the event/grad year columns for comparative years.
Typing velocity data was one of the first things I did and it comes up with stuff, but narrowing down is the hard part and going through the mounds of comments and finding out what is truth or not it the hard part, I have been going through PBR and PG but am finding it hard to navigate unless I am a paid subscriber. Was hoping someone knew something that could ease some of the time, thanks for those that have helped so far.
PG has posted this data here before. Try searching a few different ways and you should be able to find it. It may be from last year but relevant to what you are looking for.
