College Men's USAU Rankings (GL)

2023-24 Season

Data updated through April 1 at 8:00pm EDT

FAQ
Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
40 4 Illinois GL 1 14-3 1579.68 18 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 1411.86 167.83 0.12
42 28 Michigan 9-10 1566.42 170 Great Lakes Michigan DI D-I 1716 -149.58 -0.09
55 8 Michigan State 9-2 1465.76 43 Great Lakes Michigan DI D-I 1320.02 145.74 0.11
67 14 Chicago 9-9 1387.02 40 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 1409.23 -22.21 -0.02
76 9 Purdue 9-11 1357.22 56 Great Lakes East Plains DI D-I 1410.13 -52.91 -0.04
83 32 Northwestern 10-9 1335.48 140 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 1312.64 22.84 0.02
88 62 Kentucky 9-2 1302.43 265 Great Lakes East Plains DI D-I 1085.82 216.61 0.2
91 15 Indiana 14-13 1270.81 100 Great Lakes East Plains DI D-I 1337.58 -66.78 -0.05
102 15 Davenport 11-6 1217.27 44 Great Lakes Michigan DIII D-III 1093.48 123.78 0.11
106 6 Notre Dame 8-13 1210.32 25 Great Lakes East Plains DI D-I 1319.32 -109.01 -0.08
114 10 Grand Valley 5-1 1188.5 42 Great Lakes Michigan DI D-I 859.29 329.21 0.38
145 16 Southern Illinois-Edwardsville 12-6 1060.42 77 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 938.95 121.46 0.13
155 11 Grace 9-3 1022.24 78 Great Lakes East Plains DIII D-III 768.68 253.55 0.33
205 43 Ball State 15-6 805.79 216 Great Lakes East Plains DI D-I 571.72 234.07 0.41
241 16 Wheaton (Illinois) 8-1 668.74 130 Great Lakes Illinois DIII D-III 354.72 314.02 0.89
242 5 Butler 5-9 668.37 68 Great Lakes East Plains DIII D-III 712.19 -43.81 -0.06
249 10 Hillsdale 4-2 629.24 95 Great Lakes Michigan DIII D-III 503.76 125.47 0.25
260 8 Illinois State 5-6 558.62 58 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 652.19 -93.56 -0.14
262 11 Loyola-Chicago 4-3 545.98 100 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 556.97 -10.99 -0.02
275 1 Western Michigan 6-7 502.94 60 Great Lakes Michigan DI D-I 464.59 38.36 0.08
283 21 Knox 8-10 430.89 146 Great Lakes Illinois DIII D-III 462.02 -31.13 -0.07
290 5 Michigan-B 0-4 407.14 14 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 747.18 -340.04 -0.46
309 19 DePaul 1-5 313.87 67 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 639.58 -325.7 -0.51
- Bradley 1-2 273.56 109 Great Lakes Illinois DIII D-III 409.59 -136.02 -0.33
318 1 Rose-Hulman 1-6 267.13 77 Great Lakes East Plains DIII D-III 585.02 -317.89 -0.54
319 6 Purdue-B 5-10 262.3 125 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 384.52 -122.22 -0.32
336 2 Illinois-B 4-10 119.82 65 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 252.35 -132.53 -0.53
338 1 North Park 1-3 113.08 50 Great Lakes Illinois DIII D-III 220.86 -107.78 -0.49
347 18 Calvin University 0-6 40.51 84 Great Lakes Michigan DIII D-III 309.08 -268.58 -0.87
353 10 Notre Dame-B 3-3 14.13 2 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 144.69 -130.56 -0.9
354 3 Indiana-B 0-7 10.31 116 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 434.37 -424.06 -0.98
364 12 Michigan State-B 2-8 -55.38 77 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 322.76 -378.14 -1.17
370 20 Northwestern-B 1-11 -205.3 105 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 59.46 -264.76 -4.45

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.