The 10 most difficult divisions, based on Tournament Pre-Rank, are:

League Code___	Division___	Avg Owner Rank__	Pre-Season Rank
3-B	AL Central	24.25	1
3-C	AL Central	24.5	2
1-B	NL West	26	3
4-A	AL Central	26.75	4
6-C	AL West	27.25	5
1-A	NL West	28.5	6
1-A	NL Central	29	7
2-B	NL West	32	8
3-A	NL East	32	8
4-D	AL Central	32.25	10

The 10 easiest divisions, based on Tournament Pre-Rank, are:

League Code___	Division___	Avg Owner Rank__	Pre-Season Rank
3-B	AL West	87.75	144
3-D	NL West	79.25	143
1-A	AL East	73.5	141
4-D	NL Central	73.5	141
2-C	AL Central	73	139
6-D	NL East	73	139
3-C	AL West	70.75	138
2-B	AL East	70.25	137
4-A	AL East	69.75	136
1-C	NL West	69.5	135

Here are all owners and their respective division difficulties. To calculate this, I removed their own owner ranking from the calculation, so this is based on the average of the three other people in each division.

Rank___	Owner________	Division Difficulty Rank
83	gigrant	1
80	razorclams	2
67	ballsweatsux	3
53	marinerrott	4
66	winnetka1	5
33	magicdreamer	6
43	cubbies84	7
64	Chisock	8
55	thunder1008	9
88	Pebo	10
63	vilefileman	11
79	trd3	12
25	newarkwilder	13
52	DoctorKz	14
91	midknight	15
94	doctorwoo	16
77	greenies	17
56	clayolson1	18
36	CLWECW	19
68	big_dowg	20
42	tigerrott	21
48	frank_drebin	22
86	hurst47	23
62	tajohn	24
72	tab316us	25
15	milest	26
84	thebubbaq	27
74	Jtpsops	28
46	Humdogs	29
90	tridentric	30
23	skinndogg	31
60	jetscanes	31
70	moses_k	33
29	mpitt76	34
17	crystalao	35
5	rbow923	36
95	spoonfed	37
44	Jdh34	38
31	redcped	39
30	mjkrunner	40
26	dippedncrack	41
93	deathdealer	42
78	daddyzander	43
50	mick33	44
37	mllama54	45
81	zlionsfan	46
19	justinlee_24	47
76	DarthDurron	48
28	markeking	49
38	odalisgagne	50
51	BigScungil	51
24	wink0094	52
89	garmansouth	53
2	discodemo	54
34	ejstockman	55
54	NebHusker	56
69	mickr9	56
35	Fusion27s	58
61	dahsdebater	59
59	The Taint	60
13	jfranco77	61
45	gwhouse	62
9	mensu1954	63
3	ozomatli	64
6	mildnhazy	65
75	bheid408	66
85	jrnyfan01	67
82	nordawg	68
92	loyalcanuck	69
22	sford	70
87	npg32433	71
4	schwarze	72
7	jmissirlis	73
41	firesalt	73
27	batandball	75
73	toddcommish	75
18	barracuda3	77
11	redwingscup	78
32	donaldjtrump	79
49	thehuseman	80
14	dougpalm	81
65	marvin_katko	82
10	doctorcc	83
57	sjh0825	84
71	northof49	85
8	skunk206	86
39	calhoop	87
58	beauchamp	88
16	buddhagamer	89
12	jbohrman	90
21	Relkcirts	91
47	ledfoot	92
20	contrarian23	93
1	brianjw	94
96	sohio4ever	95
40	stlbombers	96

The most difficult division is:

barracuda3

doctorcc

crystalao

DoctorKz

The easiest division is in the same league:

loyalcanuck

npg32433

DarthDurron

sohio4ever

I've never seen so many Jacob DeGroms or Ed Walshes in my life. Not surprised to see that my teams rank 9th in division difficulty. I feel like the 15th seed in a March Madness bracket. Savoring my last day of being undefeated but looking forward to the start. Huge kudos to ozomatli and all the League Commissioners.

Dudes, my division difficulty rank was the number I was thinking of !!! Most Excellent !!

What is division code? Top two toughest divisions are 110 AL Central. But which 110M leagues?

Updated -- added league code

It looks like the $130M theme is the most balanced. It has none of the 10 easiest or 10 hardest divisions.

After seeing my draw in the $110M league, I'll lower my projected win total from 91 to 79.

In league 1-A, 9 of the top 10 pre-ranked owners in the league ended up in the NL.

If you remove each owner from their ranking I'd expect the top players divisions to rank easier, because they're not in it.

Definitely -- but better than including them in their own division difficulty

This seems unfairly skewed -- high ranked owners have easier divisions and vice versa. Hard to believe the draw was random.

Posted by hurst47 on 8/13/2019 3:01:00 PM (view original):
This seems unfairly skewed -- high ranked owners have easier divisions and vice versa. Hard to believe the draw was random.

well, as rbow923 correctly points out, when division difficulty rank excludes the owner in question, of course high ranked owners will have easier divisions and low ranked owners will have harder divisions. That's exactly what I would expect from a random draw.

To see why, suppose all divisions are equal in strength. Now apply the division difficulty rank formula by excluding the owner in question for each owner. By definition, higher ranked owners have lower division difficulty ranks and vice versa (on average).