Naismith WVIAC B+ Prestige

• 17 combined national champs from coaches
• 1 National champ the past 10 seasons and 4 runner ups
• 12 final fours of 40 possible
• pretty amazing considering the geographical location of the conference

Wooden South Atlantic B+ prestige

• 39 national champs
• 6 of the past 10 national champs and 2 runner ups
• 12 final fours/40
• led by strong dynasties from cbriese and mniven

Rupp Central Atlantic B+ prestige

• 43 national champs by coaches
• 3 national champs and 1 runner up
• 9 final fours
• hard to gauge since they just recently made the move to elite power conference with some big names moving up maybe 5-10 more seasons and they will have a legit claim for best conference. Being led by darnoc's Bloomfield team which has been super dominant.

Smith Southern Conference B prestige

• 50 national champs
• 4 national champs and 2 runner ups
• 11 final fours
• Might have the most stacked division with the South division containing tarvolon, fussyd, barjaz, twiddlebug, and daveredden

Iba Heartland B+ prestige

• 22 National Champs
• 1 national champ and 5 runner ups
• 9 final fours
• lost a lot of coaches recently unfortunately in mduncanhogs, pinkeye, and kelby_03 but did add cburton23 and alazer came back.

Allen California Collegiate Athletic Associaton A- prestige

• 32 national champs
• 5 national champs and 2 runner ups
• 14 final fours
• home of dan2044's Cal Bakersfield which is on a run of NC, F4, F4, NC, NC, and set the new all time D2 rpi record.

Crum Heartland Conference A- prestige

• 41 national champs
• 3 national champs and 4 runner ups
• 15 final fours
• North Alabama is the flag bearer, with 2 NC, 2 runner ups, and 2 final fours in this period

Tark GLV B+ prestige

• 35 national champs
• 2 national champs and 1 runner up
• 6 final fours
• Was considered the pinnacle D2 conference about a year ago but have lost a lot of major coaches, carlbuzz, cjwolf, sportstar6ms, being the only coaches to have been there for awhile.

For me I'm deciding between Crum Heartland, Allen Calif, Smith Southern, Rupp Central Atl., and Wooden South Atltough call between those five all have a resume to make a claim for it.

2/26/16
Current 5 year conference dynasty list, division 2
Rank Score Conference World
1 514 Cal. CAA 6
2 447 C.Atlantic 3
3 441 Heartland 7
4 432 Heartland 5
5 391 WVIAC 1
6 379 S.Atlantic 2
7 377 Southern 4
8 357 GLV 8
9 341 GLV 1
10 337 Lone Star 9

Current 10 year conference dynasty list, division 2
Rank Score Conference World
1 994 Cal. CAA 6
2 840 Heartland 5
3 821 Heartland 7
4 784 GLV 8
5 782 Southern 4
6 778 S.Atlantic 2
7 746 WVIAC 1
8 713 Lone Star 9
9 691 Cal. CAA 8
10 684 Central 9

IS world 6, Tark?

1 - naismith
2 - wooden
3 - rupp
4 - smith
5 - iba
6 - allen
7 - crum
8 - tark
9 - knight
10 - phelan

(can see it in the forums listing under HD, i mean if you go to all forums)

looks like all of your top 5 are on the list there only. looks like cal caa - allen is destroying everyone though. worth mentioning, the conf dynasty list program is definitely not at good as the regular dynasty list program. that's still a huge gap though, i suspect if you really dug into the resumes it would be clear cal caa should be #1.

the problem that makes the resume for the Cal conference in Allen is they have some really really good coaches with few or no NC's like mduncanhogs. sweatpeapapa, farve3xmvp, and just added cornfused who are all elite D2 coaches, but don't have tons of NC's.

I think a good measure of true conference strength are overall NT wins.
Once you get to the NT there basically is no way to hide or inflate records & rpi by scheduling 80% of the non-conf against sims.

And once you start getting around 20 NT wins in a single season you're approaching dominance. The Allen-Calif between seasons 79-81 went 20, 20 & 21 NT wins. 61 over three seasons is very impressive.

The most dominant three year stretch I've seen at D2 (there may have been better) was Allen-Gulf South between seasons 57-59, having 22, 24 and 23 NT wins for a three season total of 69 NT wins.

Posted by the0nlyis on 3/16/2016 10:27:00 PM (view original):
the problem that makes the resume for the Cal conference in Allen is they have some really really good coaches with few or no NC's like mduncanhogs. sweatpeapapa, farve3xmvp, and just added cornfused who are all elite D2 coaches, but don't have tons of NC's.

i think actual performance outranks any on-paper advantage in coaching talent

When I first started in the Allen CCAA the Gulf South was dominant in that world. But over time, they cleared out and we filled up with great coaches. CCAA is definitely a competitive conference. But we also just lost ARomano and all his titles, so we need to make up for that to keep the top spot.

Posted by gillispie1 on 3/18/2016 12:33:00 PM (view original):

Posted by the0nlyis on 3/16/2016 10:27:00 PM (view original):
the problem that makes the resume for the Cal conference in Allen is they have some really really good coaches with few or no NC's like mduncanhogs. sweatpeapapa, farve3xmvp, and just added cornfused who are all elite D2 coaches, but don't have tons of NC's.

i think actual performance outranks any on-paper advantage in coaching talent

I wasn't saying they weren't number one(i think they are) I was just saying thats why they didn't look like the runaway #1 like the UAA does