I was looking at baselines today as I was searching for jobs and found something I found odd, Indiana is an A- while Illinois is an A+.  Are the programers illini fans or just dumb?

did the engine come out shortly after the deron williams/dee brown/luther head season?

It came out before that, but it also came out when IU was kind of down ... but I don't think IL is an A+ baseline. I'm in agreement though, IU should have higher baseline.

I was going off the list on zhawks thread that was compiled by another coach so I'm not positive.

Posted by cburton23 on 2/2/2011 9:16:00 AM (view original):
I was going off the list on zhawks thread that was compiled by another coach so I'm not positive.

LOL, it's z's list? I'm surprised he didn't have IL listed as having an A++ baseline.

Posted by girt25 on 2/2/2011 8:11:00 AM (view original):
It came out before that, but it also came out when IU was kind of down ... but I don't think IL is an A+ baseline. I'm in agreement though, IU should have higher baseline.

I believe z actually put that together based on all DI prestiges when Knight or Phelan first opened up.  

I went through some clicking, and found for Illinois Knight, there was this:

1

Sim AI

26-6

17-0

5-4

4-2

12-4

5

6

A+

Conf Champion NT At-large Bid NT (Sweet 16)

Obviously that only proves an A+ after that season, but I think that z's list is pretty accurate.

This may be a dumb question but where do you find baseline prestige for schools.  I tried running a search but didn't see them anywhere.  I'm guessing it's easy to find.

Posted by juandetang on 2/2/2011 5:37:00 PM (view original):
This may be a dumb question but where do you find baseline prestige for schools.  I tried running a search but didn't see them anywhere.  I'm guessing it's easy to find.

It is in zhawks' thread in the Critical News folder.  It only applies to DI - all DII and DIII schools have the same baselines.  This is copied and pasted from that thread:

A+ Duke
A+ North Carolina
A Maryland
A- Georgia Tech
A- Wake Forest
A- North Carolina State
A- Boston College
B+ Virginia
B Clemson
B Florida State
B Miami (Fla)
B Virginia Tech

A+ Connecticut
A+ Syracuse
A- Georgetown
A- Louisville
A- Cincinnati
B+ Villanova
B+ Pittsburgh
B West Virginia
B Providence
B Seton Hall
B St. John's
B- Rutgers

A+ Michigan State
A+ Illinois
A- Indiana
A- Wisconsin
B+ Ohio State
B+ Purdue
B Iowa
B Michigan
B Minnesota
B Notre Dame
B- Penn State
B- Northwestern

A+ Kentucky
A- Florida
B+ Arkansas
B+ Tennessee
B LSU
B South Carolina
B Vanderbilt
B Georgia
B Alabama
B Auburn
B Mississippi
B Mississippi State

A+ UCLA
A+ Arizona
A- Stanford
B California
B Oregon
B Oregon State
B Washington State
B Washington
B Arizona State
B USC
B- Hawaii
B- Fresno State

A+ Kansas
A- Oklahoma
B Oklahoma State
B Texas
B Missouri
B Iowa State
B Texas Tech
B Texas A&M
B- Kansas State
B- Colorado
B- Nebraska
B- Baylor

A10
B = St. Joseph's
B = Temple
B = Xavier
B = Dayton
B- = UMass
B- = Charlotte
B- = Rhode Island
B- = St. Bonaventure
B- = Richmond
B- = St. Louis
B- = George Washington
B- = La Salle

WCC
B = Gonzaga
C = Pepperdine
C = Portland
C = San Francisco
C = Santa Clara
C = Loyola Marymount
C = Nevada
C = San Jose St.
D+= Grambling St.
D+= Lipscomb
D+= Texas, Pan American
D+= Boise St.

Mountain West
B = Utah
B = UNLV
B- = New Mexico
C = BYU
C = Denver
C = Texas Christian
C = Texas Southern
C = Wyoming
C = Air Force
C = N. Texas
C = San Diego St.
C = Colorado St.

CUSA
Memphis = B
The rest = C

Ivy
All teams = D

Horizon
B = Marquette
B- = DePaul
The rest = C

Missouri Valley
All teams = C

MAC
All teams = C

All other schools are D

Perfect, thanks!