College Men's USAU Rankings

2023-24 Season

Data updated through April 1 at 8:00pm EDT

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Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
151 8 Cal Poly-SLO-B 9-10 1033.94 45 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1202.48 -168.55 -0.14
164 10 UCLA-B 9-2 971.59 34 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 680.65 290.94 0.43
202 8 California-B 12-7 826.52 9 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 762.88 63.65 0.08
285 20 Southern California-B 3-8 427.27 83 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 425.31 1.96 0
292 25 California-Santa Barbara-B 5-11 402.65 103 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 599.83 -197.19 -0.33
310 14 Arizona State-B 2-8 302.77 41 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 487.18 -184.41 -0.38
323 18 California-Santa Cruz-B 4-11 239.49 43 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 358.16 -118.67 -0.33
329 16 California-San Diego-C 0-5 175.16 50 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 492.91 -317.74 -0.64
330 33 California-San Diego-B 2-9 171.51 161 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 583.6 -412.1 -0.71
371 14 San Diego State-B 0-4 -265.62 28 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 334.38 -600 -1.79

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.