Talisman Red's Women's College Basketball Ratings

Division I Conferences, Ranked

The rating shown for each conference is the simple average of all of its teams. Other raters (Sagarin, for example) advocate for slightly different calculations, but in my experience this one works well enough.

Talisman Red's Women's College Basketball Rankings
    Through Games of Monday 02 November 2026    
              Conference Rankings               

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 Rank Conference      Avg. Rating  Var
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    1 SEC                 3.25  +- 0.8
    2 BIGTEN              2.90  +- 0.8
    3 BIG12               2.18  +- 0.6
    4 ACC                 1.87  +- 0.9
    5 BIGEAST             1.47  +- 0.9
    6 IVY                 0.65  +- 0.9
    7 SUNBELT             0.48  +- 0.7
    8 ATL10               0.42  +- 0.6
    9 PAC12               0.31  +- 0.7
   10 AMER                0.21  +- 0.5
   11 MAC                -0.11  +- 0.7
   12 UAC                -0.16  +- 0.3
   13 WCC                -0.27  +- 0.6
   14 AMEAST             -0.34  +- 0.6
   15 MIDWEST            -0.44  +- 0.5
   16 CUSA               -0.45  +- 0.5
   17 SUMMIT             -0.52  +- 1.0
   18 BIGSKY             -0.58  +- 0.6
   19 MOVAL              -0.59  +- 0.8
   20 OHVAL              -0.62  +- 0.7
   21 HORIZON            -0.68  +- 0.6
   22 BIGWEST            -0.80  +- 0.7
   23 COL                -0.82  +- 0.5
   24 PATRIOT            -0.93  +- 0.6
   25 SOCON              -0.96  +- 0.4
   26 STHLND             -1.18  +- 0.7
   27 ATLSUN             -1.40  +- 0.8
   28 BIGSTH             -1.47  +- 0.7
   29 METRO              -1.63  +- 0.8
   30 MEAC               -1.72  +- 0.7
   31 SWAC               -2.08  +- 0.6
   32 NEC                -2.48  +- 0.7
   33 NOND1              -5.05  +- nan

Explanation:
  The simple average of all teams in a conference is shown
  here.  The 'var' column is half of the standard deviation
  of those teams, which is not the best way but a simple-
  enough way of describing the reasonableness of using a
  single number to describe that conference's strength.