D1 vs D2 Prestige Topic

Sorry if already discussed elsewhere.

Is there a different scale for D1 compared to D2 prestige?

I can't seem to get my D1 team to a B+ even though they seem to have done better than a D2 team of mine at B+.

D1 Houston : http://whatifsports.com/hd/TeamProfile/History.aspx?tid=12880

D2 LeMoyne : http://whatifsports.com/hd/TeamProfile/History.aspx?tid=6343

 
10/31/2013 10:14 AM
I'm not sure what the baseline prestige for Houston is, but I would speculate that's probably what's at play here.
10/31/2013 10:49 AM
D1 prestige is completely different from d2/d3. Houston baseline is C, so you would need to make the S16 or E8 next season to get bumped to B+, and that's not even guaranteed. 
10/31/2013 11:04 AM
I have been playing this game quite a while and still do not know what baseline prestige is or how one uncovers it for a particular school or conference. Anyone care to drop some knowledge?
11/2/2013 1:05 AM
Posted by rednu on 10/31/2013 10:49:00 AM (view original):
I'm not sure what the baseline prestige for Houston is, but I would speculate that's probably what's at play here.
CUSA
Memphis = B
The rest = C


11/2/2013 2:01 AM
Posted by MyGeneration on 11/2/2013 1:05:00 AM (view original):
I have been playing this game quite a while and still do not know what baseline prestige is or how one uncovers it for a particular school or conference. Anyone care to drop some knowledge?
its kinda where d1 teams reside as far as prestige goes..
from the way i understand it.. teams cant go below their teams baseline prestige more than 2 letter grades and its very hard for them to go 2 letter grades above (it can be done but you're talking deep NT runs over multiple seasons and possibly even a NT)

for example, an A+ team like DUKE can never go below a B- regardless of how crappy their results..

there was a team, i want to say wake forest, that was examined awhile back and that team went 0-27 and it dropped from a B+ to  B
that same team went like 40-70 over a 4 yr span and was b/b+ (it went from a B to a B+ after going from 2 losing seasons to a winning season)
11/2/2013 2:02 AM
D1 Baseline Prestiges:

ACC
Big East
Big 10
SEC
Pac 10
Big 12

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
11/2/2013 2:03 AM
Thanks!
11/2/2013 3:33 AM
no prob.. that list has been buried in the archives so i figured i'd post it as a refresher for people who havent seen it or havent seen it in awhile..

i had cut/pasted it into a word doc and saved on my external drive :)



11/2/2013 6:38 AM
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