How to find the Conference ID for College Baseball and College Softball

[cluelesscactus]

Hello! I'm looking to add Arkansas Razorbacks (SEC conference) to my setup for both College Baseball and Softball. I was wondering how to find out the conference ID for these to pull in the information and not be limited if it's outside of the top 25. I haven't been able to find where this information is at specifically for college baseball and softball. Any help on where to look would be great! I tried looking through the ESPN api response but couldn't figure it out.

[vasqued2]

Football and Basketball have a ConferenceId key under the team which corresponds to the group to use in the API call. Baseball doesn't have one so I'm not sure it's possible. I found an API at one point that returned all the ConferenceId's for football and basketball. Let me see if I can find that again and see if there is an equivalent for baseball.

It sounds like you are comfortable looking at the JSON responses so if you want to look yourself, you can use the API listed below as a starting point. It returns a list of all the sports supported. You then just need to keep traversing the more pertinent APIs in the JSON to find what you are looking for. I think this is how I found the list for football and basketball.

If you find something, let me know. I will do the same.

https://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports

[cluelesscactus]

Thanks for the start. Looks like I found the SEC conference for college baseball.. going to research this more here shortly..

https://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/baseball/leagues/college-baseball/seasons/2025/types/2/groups/27

[vasqued2]

Looks like we both found it at the same time. You should be able to track down softball using the same approach. Glad to help

[vasqued2]

Looks like this is the list for baseball conferences. Looks like 27 is the SEC, 28 is the East only and 29 is West only.

https://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/baseball/leagues/college-baseball/seasons/2025/types/2/groups/26/children?lang=en&region=us

[cluelesscactus]

Yeah, just found softball as well. Thanks! https://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/baseball/leagues/college-softball/seasons/2025/types/2/groups/32

[cluelesscactus]

Incase anyone else stumbles upon this and is curious.. here is what I've found so far for college baseball and softball. There were some that had conference divisions but I didn't get all those.. Hope this helps.

College Softball

Conference	ID
ACC	40
Big 10	49
Big 12	45
Pac 12	47
SEC	32

College Baseball

Conference	ID
ACC	37
Atlantic Sun Conference	56
Big 10	48
Big 12	44
Conference USA	50
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference	52
Northeast Conference	51
Independents	53
PAC 12	46
SEC	27
Southland Conference	54
West Coast Conference	55

[vasqued2]

Thanks @cluelesscactus