Top Baseball Towns in Franklin County, MA
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.
Bernardston leads Franklin County, MA, scoring 0.71 almost entirely on high school titles, though Leyden is close behind on 0.71. 8 towns have won something since 2000.
The top 8 in Franklin County, MA are Bernardston, Leyden, Northfield, Warwick, New Salem, Orange, Petersham and Wendell.
Size is doing a lot of work here. Leyden is in the top ten on a population of 735, while Orange has 7,583 to draw on — roughly 10 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.
Recency matters in this table — a title's weight halves every 12 years, so the standings drift on their own every season. Bernardston, Leyden, Northfield and Warwick have won something in the last two seasons, which is why they sit where they do.
Bernardston, Leyden and Northfield 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 | Bernardston MA Franklin County | 0.71 | 2,109 | 0.25 ⌗ | — | — | Pioneer Valley Regional |
| 2 | Leyden MA Franklin County | 0.71 | 735 | 0.25 ⌗ | — | — | Pioneer Valley Regional |
| 3 | Northfield MA Franklin County | 0.71 | 2,880 | 0.25 ⌗ | — | — | Pioneer Valley Regional |
| 4 | Warwick MA Franklin County | 0.71 | 774 | 0.25 ⌗ | — | — | Pioneer Valley Regional |
| 5 | New Salem MA Franklin County | 0.33 | 1,023 | 0.25 ⌗ | — | — | Ralph C Mahar Regional |
| 6 | Orange MA Franklin County | 0.33 | 7,583 | 0.25 ⌗ | — | — | Ralph C Mahar Regional |
| 7 | Petersham MA Franklin County | 0.33 | 1,246 | 0.25 ⌗ | — | — | Ralph C Mahar Regional |
| 8 | Wendell MA Franklin County | 0.33 | 916 | 0.25 ⌗ | — | — | Ralph C Mahar Regional |
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.
Under 10,000
- 1BernardstonMA0.71 · 2k
- 2LeydenMA0.71 · 1k
- 3NorthfieldMA0.71 · 3k
- 4WarwickMA0.71 · 1k
- 5New SalemMA0.33 · 1k
- 6OrangeMA0.33 · 8k
- 7PetershamMA0.33 · 1k
- 8WendellMA0.33 · 1k
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 Massachusetts
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.