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End of Season Update: DuKane, SWSub

Posted by His Eminence Dr. Chester R. Lu on May 25, 2025, 12:38 pm

Because I obviously have nothing better to do with my Sunday morning, I decided to do an updated analysis on the DuKane vs the Southwest Suburban conferences.

This is all MaxPreps data. First part is the Top 25. DuKane and SWSUB each have 6 teams. SWSUB has the better average rank amongst those 6 - 6.5 versus DuKane's 13.2.

Second part is looking at the full conferences, with MaxPreps rating for each team. Here, DuKane comes out ahead of SWSUB (16 vs. 13.16). (GCAC was just thrown in as a diverse and large comp.)

Let the debate rage!

Re: End of Season Update: DuKane, SWSub

Posted by The Real Comparison on May 26, 2025, 4:14 pm, in reply to "End of Season Update: DuKane, SWSub"

Both conferences are strong; however, when using the correct 9 schools for the SW Suburban softball conference and then comparing the MaxPreps data, SW Suburban comes out on top any way you slice the data. Overall average conference rating for SWS was 18.60 vs. 15.6 for DuKane. Big disparity in strength of schedule in favor of SWS conf. Even head to head (if I got this right) the SWS is 4-0 against DuKane.
- LWE over STCN 5-1
- LWC over STCN 4-0
- Lockport over STCE 7-1
- LWE over STCE 12-0

Sched. MaxPreps ICA
SW Suburban Rating StrengthRanking Poll
LW-Central 32.57 17.59 1 1
LW-East 27.29 17.16 3 5
Lockport 25.39 17.44 5 4
LW-West 22.39 16.81 9 12
B-Bourbonnais 20.72 17.02 14 25
Andrew 19.79 15.20 16
H.-Flossmoor 10.77 15.24 57
Sandburg 9.00 15.12 62
Stagg -0.50 12.41 108

Overall AVG 18.60 16.00 30.56 9.4

Top Third 28.42 17.40 3.00
Middle Third 20.97 16.34 13.00
Bottom 6.42 14.26 75.67

Top 6 24.69 16.87 8.00 9.4

Sched. MaxPreps ICA
DuKane Rating StrengthRanking Poll
STC North 23.15 17.09 6 6
Lake Park 21.95 14.12 10 11
Glenbard North 21.90 12.04 11 9
Wheaton-North 21.35 13.97 12 10
W-Warrenville 17.55 12.36 23 15
STC East 16.91 14.87 24
Batavia 1.81 11.63 95
Geneva 0.28 9.92 106

Overall AVG 15.61 13.25 35.88 10.2

Top Third 22.33 14.42 9
Middle Third 18.60 13.73 19.67
Bottom 1.05 10.78 100.50

Top 6 20.47 14.08 14.33 10.2

Re: End of Season Update: DuKane, SWSub

Posted by @Dr. Chet on May 26, 2025, 2:11 pm, in reply to "End of Season Update: DuKane, SWSub"

I'm just clarifying, are you trying to compare the Southwest Suburban Conference with the DuKane conference? Because if so, Waubonsie, Nequa Valley, Naperville North and Central, and Matea are not in the Southwest Suburban Conference. Those schools are in the DuPage Valley Conference. As you can see, the DuPage Valley Conference doesn't compare with either the Southwest Suburban Conference or the DuKane conference. If you are comparing all southwest suburban conferences, then you should include the Southwest Prarie Conference. Just curious as to how those numbers would come out. Thanks for the information though.

Re: End of Season Update: DuKane, SWSub

Posted by billy on May 26, 2025, 12:32 pm, in reply to "End of Season Update: DuKane, SWSub"

The only teams in the SWSC are:
LWC
Lockport
LWE
LWW
Andrew
Bradley
Sandburg
H-F
Stagg
are the only teams in the SWSC.
Those other teams from Naperville, Dekalb, etc are not. That probably changes your rankings quite a bit.

Re: End of Season Update: DuKane, SWSub

Posted by Football parent on May 26, 2025, 4:34 pm, in reply to "Re: End of Season Update: DuKane, SWSub"

Those other teams are in SWS for football but not softball. For softball it is only the 9 listed since Bolingbrook moved.

Re: End of Season Update: DuKane, SWSub

Posted by His Erroneous Dr Chester R Lu on May 26, 2025, 4:23 pm, in reply to "Re: End of Season Update: DuKane, SWSub"

Re: End of Season Update: DuKane, SWSub

Posted by Challenge on May 26, 2025, 10:30 am, in reply to "End of Season Update: DuKane, SWSub"

It would be cool to set up a format like ACC/B1G Challenge between these two conferences!

Target one week for some cross-conference battles between the two best conferences in the state. One week for a year of bragging rights!

Let’s go!!

Re: End of Season Update: DuKane, SWSub

Posted by @Dr Chet on May 26, 2025, 8:13 am, in reply to "End of Season Update: DuKane, SWSub"

Honestly, appreciate your time and effort. Thanks.

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