What is thought/general consensus on the number to be used in computing one full letter grade prestige advantage at equal distance for a recruit?  I know there is no definitive answer just looking for general thoughts.  Remember reading a good forum topic on it a while back.   Thanks in advance for the help.

From what I've read (I think a lostmyth post) and studied in my own battles, I like to put a full letter grade at about a 1.7 multiplier. Of course if you have an A÷ school you have to determine where in that range they are since they could be a high A+

Posted by slicknick777 on 8/11/2013 11:06:00 AM (view original):
From what I've read (I think a lostmyth post) and studied in my own battles, I like to put a full letter grade at about a 1.7 multiplier. Of course if you have an A÷ school you have to determine where in that range they are since they could be a high A+

Just at D1 though, right? Surely that 1.7X can't be accurate for D2 and D3.

In my experience at D2 I've found the real usefulness of prestige is not necessarily more recruiting impact, but rather the quality of recruits initialy listed at your division. With a higher prestige, better recruits are instantly available to you, where they may be pulldowns for lesser prestige schools. This is very helpful in getting a head start recruiting guys, since you don't have to waste the first cycle calling their coach to determine if they are even recruitable.

At one time I was a D2 A and I had quite a rough time fighting off a D3 A+ to get a recruit.

I'm very conservative with battles, so I assume a higher multiplier of 100% per letter grade.

So a C team has to spend 200% of what a B team spends to get the same recruiting weight.

But 1.7x makes sense too. 

Posted by clouseb on 8/11/2013 11:55:00 AM (view original):

Posted by slicknick777 on 8/11/2013 11:06:00 AM (view original):
From what I've read (I think a lostmyth post) and studied in my own battles, I like to put a full letter grade at about a 1.7 multiplier. Of course if you have an A÷ school you have to determine where in that range they are since they could be a high A+

Just at D1 though, right? Surely that 1.7X can't be accurate for D2 and D3.

In my experience at D2 I've found the real usefulness of prestige is not necessarily more recruiting impact, but rather the quality of recruits initialy listed at your division. With a higher prestige, better recruits are instantly available to you, where they may be pulldowns for lesser prestige schools. This is very helpful in getting a head start recruiting guys, since you don't have to waste the first cycle calling their coach to determine if they are even recruitable.

I'm not sure about D2 and D3. I've spent the majority of my time in D1. I'd be curious to hear an opinion on D2 and D3.

I think the prestige difference is much smaller than people realize. And gets smaller as the prestige gets smaller. For example a D1 A has a bigger edge over a D1 B than the B has over the C. At the D3 and D2 levels prestige is almost meaningless in battles, it's importance is the recruits that you can actually get to consider you. 

The biggest thing is in D1, the A+ prestige has an enormous range, and I feel itself is a whole letter grade. Meaning the difference between the highest A+ and lowest A+ is the equivalent to an A vs. B. I say this because of a battle I once had where I entered the season with an A+, won the national title and then had 3 or 4 guys drafted. I got into a battle that offseason with an A prestige school and spent slightly less money on a recruit while being at a distance disadvantage and still signed the recruit on first cycle guys generally sign when in a battle. Whereas I've been other battles where I had an A+ or was against an A+ who wasn't coming off a title and the battles went much differently. 

My estimate for a full letter difference at D1 is somewhere between 30%-50%. But when you're talking about a really high A+ you could be getting into that 70%+ range.