College Men's USAU Rankings

2023-24 Season

Data updated through March 27 at 8:00am EDT

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Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
211 32 North Carolina State-B 5-6 750.83 179 Atlantic Coast Southern Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 776.17 -25.34 -0.03
229 9 North Carolina-B 5-10 679.13 99 Atlantic Coast Southern Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 894.62 -215.49 -0.24
232 Virginia Tech-B 4-2 674.06 Atlantic Coast Southern Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 436.76 237.31 0.54
291 1 South Carolina-B 3-14 364.98 114 Atlantic Coast Southern Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 689.07 -324.09 -0.47
295 5 Virginia-B 3-8 356.17 160 Atlantic Coast Southern Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 471.51 -115.34 -0.24
299 James Madison-B 3-3 327.12 Atlantic Coast Southern Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 417.65 -90.53 -0.22
362 William & Mary-B 0-6 -363.08 Atlantic Coast Southern Atlantic Coast Dev Dev -54.02 -309.07 5.72

FAQ

The results on this page ("USAU") are the results of an implementation of the USA Ultimate Top 20 algorithm, which is used to allocate post season bids to both colleg and club ultimate teams. The data was obtained by scraping USAU's score reporting website. Learn more about the algorithm here. TL;DR, here is the rating function. Every game a team plays gets a rating equal to the opponents rating +/- the score value. With all these data points, we iterate team ratings until convergence. There is also a rule for discounting blowout games (see next FAQ)
For reference, here is handy table with frequent game scrores and the resulting game value:
"...if a team is rated more than 600 points higher than its opponent, and wins with a score that is more than twice the losing score plus one, the game is ignored for ratings purposes. However, this is only done if the winning team has at least N other results that are not being ignored, where N=5."

Translation: if a team plays a game where even earning the max point win would hurt them, they can have the game ignored provided they win by enough and have suffficient unignored results.