131 years of this and we still win, a lot!
In short: find the result of (nearly) every Georgia Tech head-to-head sporting event that has ever occurred by clicking here, as well as several other analytical tools we have been putting together.
Many times over the years, we as a staff have had some form of the following interaction:
Jake: “Hey, someone asked a great question — do you know what Tech’s basketball record has historically been in the past few years in March? How does it compare to, say, February?”
Jack: “Hmm, not sure — that’s probably something we’d need to cobble together out of the media guide.”
Jake: “Ah, yep, that figures.”
This was inspired by a real comment we got and a cul-de-sac we would up going down on the Scions of the Southland podcast — listener and reader feedback always appreciated, of course. For some sports, that question already has some great resources. Friend of the site Steven Little, whom you may know from his excellent work over at Section 103, has the always-excellent Winsipedia site that pulls together every college football result, which rules. But pulling things for non-football Tech sports has typically been quite a slog.
At long last, we can finally show all of you fine readers TechStats, the only place to find out Tech’s all-time record in…everything.
Say you wanted to know what Tech’s all-time record is in all of its sports — we have the answer to that question on the site, and an infinite many more. TechStats is a creation of Jake Grant, and the site is public and free for anyone to use to find out just about any stat regarding Georgia Tech’s head-to-head matchups, save for swimming duel meets (we haven’t been able to get our hands on historical data for individual meets, only total records), golf match play (which plays most of its season in invitational formats), and men’s tennis prior to 1947 (as well as 1951).
There are a few sports that no longer compete at a varsity level, such as wrestling (active at an NCAA-level sporadically between 1948 and 1989), rifle, lacrosse, and men’s gymnastics (active at least between 1950 and 1960), which are also not included in the dataset due to lack of available data.
With the database fully updated up through the 2023-2024 athletic season, we’ll be able to track how Tech historically has done across all sports for every matchup, and this will feature heavily in our podcast content (as well as other places as applicable), and we’ve already been beta-testing the site on our weekly esoteric Tech trivia segment for a few months on the show.
Across all sports we have results for (baseball, football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, volleyball, softball, men’s tennis, women’s tennis), Georgia Tech holds an all-time 9,170-6,979-81 record, good enough for a .567 win percentage. Of note, some exhibitions were recorded in the various datasources, but are counted neither as wins, losses, nor ties.
The full sport-by-sport breakdown is below:
In TechStats, there are many filters you can select that allow you to manipulate the data as you want. One of our favorite features is the Scorigami pivot table, which, unlike Jon Bois’ famous database, goes both ways for wins and losses, meaning we can track how many time Tech has won or lost with a particular score combination (with Georgia Tech on the x-axis). These can be filtered by sport, result type, and opponent (and more).
Note for mobile viewers: this table is GIGANTIC (thanks to 222-0). The rest of this article, for those that don’t want to scroll through it, reminds you to kindly cite your sources and includes blurbs about all 5 scripts housed on the site.
This gets updated on (at least) an annual basis, since it is a bit of a slog to pull together. As games go on this year, we will most likely be tracking the all-time records using traditional methods until the 2024-2025 athletic year ends.
Feel free to email us at fromtherumbleseat@gmail.com if you’re playing around with it and find a bug, as well as with any questions that arise. It’s meant to be a resource for all Tech fans to enjoy and nerd out about, so please treat as such so we can keep it public for everyone. If you do use the data in any subsequent analyses, please respect the the original primary data sources and cite the Georgia Tech official media guides (found at RamblinWreck.com), Winsipedia, and the NCAA, as well as TechStats for analysis that is found on other widgets on the site.
TechStats Page Descriptions
Tech Athletics — Complete Results Database: A complete dataset of (nearly) every Georgia Tech baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, football, softball, men’s and women’s tennis, and volleyball result.
Tech Athletics — All-Sports Performance Indicator (RECC): A ranking of Georgia Tech’s performance across the athletic department which is calculated by aggregating the ranking of every varsity sport normalized for the number of schools sponsoring each sport.
Atlantic Coast Conference — All Member Conference Titles: A database of every ACC title won by member schools, including annual and multi-year trends in conference title wins and expected vs. actual titles won.
NCAA Bracketology — Baseball, Softball, and Women’s Volleyball (USI): Jake’s in-house rating, the Universal Selection Index (USI), was created out of a frustration at a lack (at the time the original script was developed) of bracketology methods that were publicly accessible and, well, not vibes-based, particularly non-basketball sports. With annual optimization for the input parameters relative to picking the tournament at-large bids, this aims to determine the teams that, short of winning a conference bid, would make the postseason in these other sports.
NCAA Swimming Ratings — Collegiate Aquatic Performance (CAP): Jake’s swimming rating, Collegiate Aquatic Performance (CAP), uses the USA Swimming times database to develop a score rating teams based on an estimate of team depth. This is used in place of a pure extrapolation of top times into score at a conference or national championship meet, which isn’t entirely useful for regular season, pre-taper results, to say nothing of comparing non-elite teams (which may not even score meaningful points at NCAAs, despite having decent depth). This rating is available for all NCAA divisions.