How the divisions compare, 2025

These divisions are not ranked against each other, and that is deliberate. The Players tab can pool because the level ladder gives it a common scale, fitted on players observed in two divisions. Teams have no such bridge. Teams do not change division the way players do, and the roughly forty cross-division games a season are far too few to place 212 D1 sides on the same axis as 488 D3 ones. Every division's mean rating is exactly zero by construction, because each is fitted inside its own division and centred there, so sorting all three together would interleave them almost perfectly and put a mid-table D3 side level with a mid-table D1 one. What compares honestly is the SHAPE of each division, which is what this is.

Every bar is drawn on one shared axis, so their widths really are comparable even though their positions are not. Each division's own axis would draw three identical-looking pictures and hide the only thing worth seeing here. range is worst to best, and middle half is the gap between the 25th and 75th team, which is the better number of the two because one runaway club stretches the range without making a division deep. measured counts players clearing 6 nineties, not rosters.

Strongest in each division

These three columns are three separate rankings, each within its own division. The best D3 team's +1.43 and the best D1 team's +0.97 both mean "goals of margin against an average team of THAT division", which are two different opponents. Do not read the columns across.