And here is the first part of the three parts of the Strength of Schedule. In years past we have either just realist the top 25, or just released the teams that were ranked in the Pre-Season Rankings. This year though we have changed that. We will have the entire NJCAA Ranked based on divisions of course.
For Division 1(the other 2 divisions will come either this week or next week), there are 170 teams that play. And before you ask your self “Wait did these guys really go and look at all 170 teams’ schedules and do this?” yes yes we did… we have a problem.
What is interesting to see is where some of the Toughest schedules lie. Below will be the Regions by Rank of Toughest Schedules which you can interpret as the “Toughest Regions” if you want to:
| Rank | Region | # of Teams | Highest Ranked | Lowest Ranked |
| 1st | 15 | 1 | 1st – Monroe | |
| 2nd | 11 | 4 | 2nd – Indian Hills | 155th – Marshalltown |
| 3rd | 1 | 7 | 5th – Yavapai | 89th – Central Arizona |
| 4th | 8 | 17 | 8th – Pensacola State | 144th – Central Florida |
| 5th | 14 | 13 | 3rd – Wharton | 168th – Bossier Parish |
| 6th | 6 | 18 | 7th – Johnson County | 157th – Garden City |
| 7th | 7 | 10 | 26th – Cleveland State | 112th – Motlow State |
| 8th | 4 | 4 | 18th – South Suburban | 152nd – Olive Harvey |
| 9th | 10 | 8 | 34th – Gaston | 113th – USC Sumter |
| 10th | 16 | 8 | 22nd – Jefferson (MO) | 132nd – St. Louis |
| 11th | 24 | 11 | 28th – Lake Land | 136th – Shawnee |
| 12th | 2 | 5 | 24th – Seminole State (OK) | 141st – Connors State |
| 13th | 20 | 3 | 35th – Harford | 148th – Hagerstown |
| 14th | 18 | 6 | 33rd – Southern Nevada | 170th – Southern Idaho |
| 15th | 5 | 19 | 47th – McLennan | 147th – New Mexico Military |
| 16th | 23 | 3 | 62nd – Baton Rouge | 162nd – Delgado |
| 17th | 17 | 6 | 111th – South Georgia State | 151st – Georgia Highlands |
| 18th | 22 | 19 | 23rd – Coastal Alabama – Bay Minette | 169th – Snead State |
| 19th | 9 | 8 | 81st – Western Nebraska | 167th – Otero |
Now for the part that you all are really here for the 1st – 170th Strength of Schedule Rankings. These are based on a few different things taking into account our Pre-Season Rankings.
| Rank | Pre-Season Rank | School | Reg. |
| 1 | Monroe | 15 | |
| 2 | Indian Hills | 11 | |
| 3 | 25 | Wharton | 14 |
| 4 | Southwestern (IA) | 11 | |
| 5 | Yavapai | 1 | |
| 6 | 23 | South Mountain | 1 |
| 7 | 15 | Johnson County | 6 |
| 8 | 24 | Pensacola State | 8 |
| 9 | Blinn | 14 | |
| 10 | Coastal Bend | 14 | |
| 11 | Galveston | 14 | |
| 12 | Tallahassee | 8 | |
| 13 | 8 | Chipola | 8 |
| 14 | Pima | 1 | |
| 15 | 38 | Alvin | 14 |
| 16 | Eastern Arizona | 1 | |
| 17 | Seminole State (FL) | 8 | |
| 18 | South Suburban | 4 | |
| 19 | 20 | Northwest Florida | 8 |
| 20 | 14 | Gulf Coast State | 8 |
| 21 | Arizona Western | 1 | |
| 22 | Jefferson (MO) | 16 | |
| 23 | Coastal Alabama – Bay Minette | 22 | |
| 24 | 35 | Seminole State (OK) | 2 |
| 25 | Daytona State | 8 | |
| 26 | Cleveland State | 7 | |
| 27 | 10 | Iowa Western | 11 |
| 28 | Lake Land | 24 | |
| 29 | 11 | Cochise | 1 |
| 30 | Eastern Florida | 8 | |
| 31 | Santa Fe | 8 | |
| 32 | Triton | 4 | |
| 33 | Southern Nevada | 18 | |
| 34 | 37 | Gaston | 10 |
| 35 | Harford | 20 | |
| 36 | 21 | Florida SouthWestern | 8 |
| 37 | Allen County | 6 | |
| 38 | Southwestern Illinois | 24 | |
| 39 | Labette | 6 | |
| 40 | Utah State Eastern | 18 | |
| 41 | Highland (KS) | 6 | |
| 42 | 3 | San Jac | 14 |
| 43 | Marshalltown | 11 | |
| 44 | Southwest Tennessee | 7 | |
| 45 | Neosho | 6 | |
| 46 | 36 | Fort Scott | 6 |
| 47 | 6 | McLennan | 5 |
| 48 | Grayson | 5 | |
| 49 | Kansas City Kansas | 6 | |
| 50 | Hillsborough | 8 | |
| 51 | Coffeyville | 6 | |
| 52 | Indian River State | 8 | |
| 53 | Louisburg | 10 | |
| 54 | Jackson State | 7 | |
| 55 | North Central Texas | 5 | |
| 56 | Roane State | 7 | |
| 57 | USC Salkehatchie | 10 | |
| 58 | Northeast Texas | 14 | |
| 59 | Temple | 5 | |
| 60 | Mineral Area | 16 | |
| 61 | Community Christian (CA) | 18 | |
| 62 | Baton Rouge | 23 | |
| 63 | Paris | 14 | |
| 64 | 31 | State College of Florida | 8 |
| 65 | Hutchinson | 6 | |
| 66 | St. Charles | 16 | |
| 67 | 4 | Cowley | 6 |
| 68 | Cloud County | 6 | |
| 69 | 42 | Columbia State | 7 |
| 70 | Vernon | 5 | |
| 71 | Cisco | 5 | |
| 72 | St. Petersburg | 8 | |
| 73 | Lincoln Trail | 24 | |
| 74 | 17 | Wabash Valley | 24 |
| 75 | 9 | Crowder | 16 |
| 76 | Dodge City | 6 | |
| 77 | 30 | Chattanooga State | 7 |
| 78 | Three Rivers | 16 | |
| 79 | 13 | Dyersburg State | 7 |
| 80 | Seward | 6 | |
| 81 | Western Nebraska | 9 | |
| 82 | 12 | Miami Dade | 8 |
| 83 | USC Union | 10 | |
| 84 | Panola | 14 | |
| 85 | Volunteer State | 7 | |
| 86 | Spartanburg Methodist | 10 | |
| 87 | 29 | Weatherford | 5 |
| 88 | Navarro | 14 | |
| 89 | 1 | Central Arizona | 1 |
| 90 | Ranger | 5 | |
| 91 | Colorado Northwestern | 18 | |
| 92 | Rend Lake | 24 | |
| 93 | 2 | Walters State | 7 |
| 94 | Tyler | 14 | |
| 95 | 32 | Wallace-Dothan | 22 |
| 96 | USC Lancaster | 10 | |
| 97 | 41 | Butler | 6 |
| 98 | 40 | Polk | 8 |
| 99 | Western Texas | 5 | |
| 100 | 34 | Eastern Oklahoma | 2 |
| 101 | Colby | 6 | |
| 102 | Rose State | 2 | |
| 103 | Potomac State | 20 | |
| 104 | Shelton State | 22 | |
| 105 | Olney Central | 24 | |
| 106 | 18 | Florence Darlington Tech | 10 |
| 107 | El Paso | 5 | |
| 108 | Lurleen B. Wallace | 22 | |
| 109 | Frontier | 24 | |
| 110 | 22 | New Mexico | 5 |
| 111 | South Georgia State | 17 | |
| 112 | Motlow State | 7 | |
| 113 | USC Sumter | 10 | |
| 114 | State Fair | 16 | |
| 115 | Abraham Baldwin | 17 | |
| 116 | Northeastern Oklahoma A&M | 2 | |
| 117 | Central Alabama | 22 | |
| 118 | Frank Phillips | 5 | |
| 119 | Metropolitan | 16 | |
| 120 | Gordon State | 17 | |
| 121 | Enterprise State | 22 | |
| 122 | Southeastern Illinois | 24 | |
| 123 | Odessa | 5 | |
| 124 | Kaskaskia | 24 | |
| 125 | Hill | 5 | |
| 126 | Barton | 6 | |
| 127 | Howard | 5 | |
| 128 | Coastal Alabama – Brewton | 22 | |
| 129 | Midland | 5 | |
| 130 | Wallace State | 22 | |
| 131 | 8 | John A. Logan | 24 |
| 132 | St. Louis | 16 | |
| 133 | East Georgia State | 17 | |
| 134 | Bishop State | 22 | |
| 135 | Lamar | 9 | |
| 136 | Shawnee | 24 | |
| 137 | Kishwaukee | 4 | |
| 138 | Nunez | 23 | |
| 139 | McCook | 9 | |
| 140 | Amarillo | 5 | |
| 141 | Connors State | 2 | |
| 142 | Andrew | 17 | |
| 143 | Lawson State | 22 | |
| 144 | 5 | Central Florida | 8 |
| 145 | Pratt | 6 | |
| 146 | Clarendon | 5 | |
| 147 | New Mexico Military | 5 | |
| 148 | Hagerstown | 20 | |
| 149 | Bevill State | 22 | |
| 150 | Calhoun | 22 | |
| 151 | 33 | Georgia Highlands | 17 |
| 152 | Olive Harvey | 4 | |
| 153 | Coastal Alabama – Monroeville | 22 | |
| 154 | Southern Union State | 22 | |
| 155 | 16 | Salt Lake | 18 |
| 156 | Chattahoochee Valley | 22 | |
| 157 | Garden City | 6 | |
| 158 | Angelina | 14 | |
| 159 | Marion Military | 22 | |
| 160 | Wallace-Selma | 22 | |
| 161 | Southeast (NE) | 9 | |
| 162 | Delgado | 23 | |
| 163 | Northeast (CO) | 9 | |
| 164 | Northwest – Shoals | 22 | |
| 165 | Trinidad State | 9 | |
| 166 | Luna | 9 | |
| 167 | Otero | 9 | |
| 168 | Bossier Parish | 14 | |
| 169 | 26 | Snead State | 22 |
| 170 | Southern Idaho | 18 |
If you made it this far and are actually reading what is being written then good for you. What did you think? Are we crazy? Did you go how you think it would? Have anything you would like to debate? Let us know!
Interesting information. Thanks! I am always interested in baseball stats. Do you do any stats or rankings on NWAC or CCCAA schools?