Top Baseball Towns in Coos County, NH
Ranked on championships won since 2000 — high school state titles and Little League district, section and state titles counted together, with recent wins weighted more heavily. 8 towns have won something.
Gorham leads Coos County, NH, scoring 2.67 almost entirely on high school titles, and not narrowly — Gorham is clear of Carroll by 1.39 points. 8 towns have won something since 2000.
The top 8 in Coos County, NH are Gorham, Carroll, Dalton, Jefferson, Lancaster, Whitefield, Pittsburg and Colebrook.
Size is doing a lot of work here. Pittsburg is in the top ten on a population of 837, while Lancaster has 3,212 to draw on — roughly 4 times as many people. That is why the tables below are also split into population bands: a town should be measured against places its own size before it is measured against a city.
Carroll, Dalton and Jefferson share credit with neighbouring towns for a regional high school. A regional's championship is split evenly between every town it serves rather than going to the town the building happens to sit in.
| # | Town | Score | Population | HS titles | LL state | LL district | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gorham NH Coos County | 2.67 | 2,673 | 1 | — | — | Gorham High School |
| 2 | Carroll NH Coos County | 1.28 | 839 | 0.60 ⌗ | — | — | White Mountains Regional High School |
| 3 | Dalton NH Coos County | 1.28 | 912 | 0.60 ⌗ | — | — | White Mountains Regional High School |
| 4 | Jefferson NH Coos County | 1.28 | 1,060 | 0.60 ⌗ | — | — | White Mountains Regional High School |
| 5 | Lancaster NH Coos County | 1.28 | 3,212 | 0.60 ⌗ | — | — | White Mountains Regional High School |
| 6 | Whitefield NH Coos County | 1.28 | 2,528 | 0.60 ⌗ | — | — | White Mountains Regional High School |
| 7 | Pittsburg NH Coos County | 1.12 | 837 | 1 | — | — | Pittsburg School (High) |
| 8 | Colebrook NH Coos County | 1.06 | 2,100 | 1 | — | — | Colebrook Academy and Elementary School (H) |
By town size
A championship out of a town of 6,000 is a different achievement from the same title in a city of 600,000. Same scoring, ranked against places of the same size.
How this is scored
- High school state championship — 3 points
- Little League state title — 3 points
- Little League sectional title — 2 points
- Little League district title — 1 point
Only titles since 2000 count, each one's weight halves every 12 years, private-school titles count for 0.75 of a public one, and a regional school's championship is split between the towns it serves.
Full method, sources and what the rankings can't see →By county in New Hampshire
Counties with enough towns on the board to rank. Smaller counties are folded into their state list rather than given a page of three rows.