Bogeyorpar's D1 Academic-Baseball College Ranking

Great spreadsheet.

I still wrestle with the academic component. For athletes its a different ballgame when compared to regular admits.

I think there are two angles within that index: (1) what does a kid need to get in as a baseball player and (2) do athletic demands cause athletes to deviate from the percentages of students in various majors as detailed in the Common Data Set (and, if so, how much).

I think a great majority of D1 schools (virtually all of the power and mid-major conferences) admit athletes who meet minimum NCAA requirements and the list could reflect that. This board could probably fill in info for all the other schools.

The second angle is harder to tease out; in going through a few random rosters at a few random schoold, I found reliable info very sparse. But, I am certain that except for a very few, most players do sacrifice either grades and/or majors. The magnitude of sacrifice is a very important variable for anyone intending to eventually enter the work force.

Good points GOOSEGG.  I thought about a way to measure the acceptance criteria but since it varies from school to school and from player to player, I found it hard to measure.  Also, a lot of my info was anecdotal.  If other board members could help I think that would be very valuable info.  For example, of the top 100 schools listed, what school's baseball coaches do not have much flexibility with admissions?  In my case, we crossed off the schools that we knew he could not qualify for and focused on the top schools remaining.  As for limiting majors for athletes, I think it would be particularly helpful if you finetuned the list, ranking for a specific major, especially those that typically are limited for athletes like engineering, pre-med, etc. That could be a good project.  For example, listing the top 100 engineering schools for baseball players, notating those that have limitations.  The other information that was important for us was program attrition.  How many underclass players leave the program via transfer or other reasons (other than the draft) and how many players are in each recruiting class.  I did some work on a few select programs but it would take too long to compile for all the schools on the list.  I know another poster has done great work on this, COLLEGEBASEBALLINSIGHTS.

GloFisher posted:

I took the liberty of updating Bogeyorpar's D1 Academic Baseball College ranking.  I used the same weighting... 70% academic, 30% baseball.  To round out the curves, I used a 3 year RPI average ('17, '18,'19) for baseball score and an average of the US News, Niche, and WSJ college rankings for the academic score.  Not perfect but a good starting point.  I will tool around with the rankings and adjust them for those interested in business or engineering at a later date.  Regional adjustments are easy as well.  Any requests, let me know.  I hope this is helpful."

Yes please. would love to see business and engineering weighted into this awesome list!!

A cool addition to this would be their average class size and number of pitchers taken. I grabbed that from 

https://www.perfectgame.org/ra...uiting/Rankings.aspx

I did one similar and used 4, 3 and 2 year average class rankings from PG, with Average Class size and Pitchers for my son when he came up with his list of schools...  I also plugged in his metrics to show him where he would fit in the class. #1/7 or #4/9, etc. To show him where he could compete to play and where he would sit with current stats from each pitcher in class for each school.

Sorted by 3 year average as that is what will be on campus when he arrives. Academics are extremely important and we vetod some schools on this list.  He is committed to GT for 2021.

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