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Message: [QUOTE="shizzle787, post: 4418030, member: 6581"] To be clear: I calculated these based off of the adjusted efficiency margin. It was a simple analysis: I added up the AEM of each team in a league and divided by the total number of teams. I'm too cheap to buy KenPom so I don't know if he does this but I did it anyway. It is not perfect: I likely made a computational error along the way, and there are other variables that may invalidate this. However, I think it is pretty accurate and there a few very interesting results (especially in mid-major land). Without further ado, here are the rankings (league avg. AEM in parenthesis) Tier 1 1. Big 12 (19.19) 2. SEC (17.83) 3. Big 10 (15.57) 4. ACC (14.53) 5. Big East (13.80) 6. Pac-12 (12.12) Tier 2 7. AAC (8.63) 8. WCC (7.07) 9. MW (6.09) 10. A-10 (5.09) Tier 3 11. C-USA (2.55) 12. MVC (.60) 13. WAC (-.94) 14. Southern (-1.1) Tier 4 15. Big West (-3.12) 16. Sun Belt (-3.24) 17. Ivy (-3.81) 18. MAC (-4.13) Tier 5 19. MAAC (-5.05) 20. A-Sun (-5.35) 21. Big South (-5.51) 22. CAA (-5.53) 23. Summit (-6.00) Tier 6 24. Patriot (-7.44) 25. Big Sky (-7.55) 26. America East (-7.76) 27. Horizon (-8.84) Tier 7 28. MEAC (-11.63) 29. OVC (-11.85) Tier 8 30. NEC (-14.31) 31. Southland (-14.33) 32. SWAC (-15.01) 33. Indies (-19.23) To me the biggest surprises: SEC in 2nd (higher than expected) C-USA in 11th (higher than expected) WAC in 13th (higher than expected) Big West in 15th (higher than expected) CAA in 22nd (lower than expected) [/QUOTE]

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