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Message: [QUOTE="DefenseBB, post: 3286602, member: 7492"] While doing the Big10 I realized I calculated the % dominance wrong (denominator was too large). That said, Stanford jumped up in the dominance category as they have finished 1st 36 times (51 opportunities) and second 7 times for 43 times or 84.3%! Number 2 on my list of conferences is the now Mighty PAC-12. For those who haven’t read the SEC 40 years WCBB, I did an assessment of what defines a “good basketball history”? I decided that success in their league was pre-eminent so I decided to look at 5 variables: [LIST] [*]How many Conference Tournament Finals did a team make (win or runner up)? [*]How many Regular season titles did they win or come in 2nd? [*]What is the Conf. Tourn winning percentage? [*]What is the Conf. Regular season winning percentage? [*]What is the combined Tournament and Regular season winning percentage? [/LIST] These 5 variables are a good tool to assess relative strength to your direct peers, which leads to your satisfaction as a fan and a feeling your team has a good WCBB History. This league has 33 years of regular season play and only 18 years of the PAC-12 Tournament. A combined 51 years of combined opportunities for 100+ chances to come in the top 2 spots. The dominant team is Stanford who is even more dominant that UT with 38.7% (43 total times) of all 111 Top 2 spots of Tournament and Regular Season standings (some seasons had reg season ties). With 23 Season Titles and 13 Tournament titles are unbelievable. They also have an 87% Reg season and a 90% Tournament winning percentage-WOW!!!!. :cool:Dominant, unbelievably dominant program that raised the level of play (eventually :rolleyes: ) for all the teams to finally be the top league in WCBB. We already knew all this so who was second? In this case, it’s Washington! They have 10 top 2 finishes, UCLA’s 9 and almost the same winning % at 57.3 to 57.7. However, the big surprise to me was Arizona State who has 11 top 2 finishes, with 2 Regular season titles, 1 Tournament title and 8 second place finishes. Who knew? Congrats to Charlie Turner Thorne (a former Stanford player to boot). ASU only has a 49% winning percentage (49/48.5) so the early years must have been brutal. For futility, this league also goes lower in the gutter with Washington State winning only 25.7% of all their PAC-12 games and 0 (zero!) top 2 finishes. Eeeke, that’s bad. Head bang While Colorado and Utah show poor winning of 35% and 33.3%, they have been in the league for only 8 years. Arizona shows a poor history of 37% winning and only 6 combined top2 finishes for 5.4% This league also only shows 5 teams of 12 with winning history in league play. Stanford has been so dominant it has forced the other teams to feed upon themselves. While the current trend is up for the PAC-12 can they maintain multiple teams being strong….time will tell. Here’s the data, so congrats to all my left coast colleagues, I thoroughly enjoyed reviewing this conferences history. [ATTACH type="full"]47190[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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