Reading an old Izulde dynasty, I got the idea to go through and re-rank the conferences by prestige. The prestige were set when I started the file [I think britock's latest conference file] but I didn't have dynamic changes on [I thought I did] so it's time to give the conferences different prestige based on their current setups.
I'm averaging every league's prestige total by 12 [or less if it's a league with less than 12 teams] to keep things relatively fair/able to measure the relative strength of a league. Mid-majors start at 3 and below. I won't be restricting NCAA bids, every conference gets an auto-bid though [unless perhaps I make new conferences wait a bit, once I add them.]
Quote:
AMERICA EAST 21.45
AMERICAN 76.16
A10 46.15 [50]
ACC 74.93 [93.66]
ASUN 34.27
B16 73.06 [97.41]
BIG EAST 74.63
BIG SKY 21.54
BIG SOUTH 34.66
B1G 68.78 [80.25]
BIG WEST 36.36
CAA 34.90
CUSA 48.69 [52.75]
HORIZON 45
IVY 49.87
MAAC 20.5
MAC 56.25
MVC 46.1
NEC 21.3
OVC 33.91
PAC-10 50.8
PATRIOT 34.6
SEC 75.33 [94.1]
SOCON 46.2
SOLND 21.15 [22.91]
SWAC 25.16
SUMMIT 36.3
SUN BELT 45.83
WCC 60.12
WAC 46.56 [62.08]
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As it turned out, there wasn't much adjustment needed because all of the leagues that were ranked where they were didn't really change. A few 3s turned into 2 conferences and a few of the 5s were downgraded to 4s, but that's about it. We'll leave conference prestige where it is for now unless there are dramatic shifts in how leagues are composed or in an instance where I realign a particular league.