College Men's USAU Rankings (SW)

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 %
5 Cal Poly-SLO SW 1 25-4 2174.71 12 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1880.26 294.45 0.16
15 2 California SW 2 21-9 1924.22 35 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1793.14 131.08 0.07
23 2 UCLA 12-16 1808.44 49 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1869.11 -60.66 -0.03
35 6 California-Santa Cruz 12-15 1637.21 50 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1608.59 28.62 0.02
43 5 California-San Diego 6-14 1562.26 47 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1575.84 -13.58 -0.01
54 12 California-Santa Barbara 9-12 1469.64 55 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1503.63 -33.99 -0.02
65 22 Stanford 12-16 1404.93 80 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1466.21 -61.28 -0.04
79 22 Grand Canyon 9-9 1340.7 111 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1381.12 -40.42 -0.03
110 20 Arizona State 10-4 1192.59 94 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1027.1 165.49 0.16
115 16 Southern California 3-8 1184.79 59 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1411.53 -226.74 -0.16
129 18 San Jose State 12-4 1126.45 73 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 967.94 158.51 0.16
133 3 Loyola Marymount 9-2 1110.24 17 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 780.92 329.32 0.42
134 10 California-Irvine 3-9 1109.09 43 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1582.3 -473.2 -0.3
151 8 Cal Poly-SLO-B 9-10 1033.94 45 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1202.48 -168.55 -0.14
160 4 Santa Clara 4-7 993.03 33 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1191.03 -198 -0.17
164 10 UCLA-B 9-2 971.59 34 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 680.65 290.94 0.43
193 36 Northern Arizona 6-6 850.58 148 Southwest Desert DI D-I 806.14 44.44 0.06
194 8 California-Davis 9-5 848.06 13 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 738.24 109.82 0.15
202 8 California-B 12-7 826.52 9 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 762.88 63.65 0.08
211 33 Arizona 6-6 772.8 127 Southwest Desert DI D-I 794.47 -21.67 -0.03
212 3 San Diego State 8-9 770.92 2 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 832.82 -61.9 -0.07
227 7 Cal State-Long Beach 7-7 722 53 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 660.92 61.07 0.09
234 12 Claremont 11-9 703.14 9 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 670.48 32.65 0.05
273 22 Nevada-Reno 4-7 506.96 71 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 678.89 -171.93 -0.25
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
297 8 Occidental 2-5 365.99 15 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 340.56 25.43 0.07
307 13 Chico State 2-7 317.96 38 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 500 -182.03 -0.36
310 14 Arizona State-B 2-8 302.77 41 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 487.18 -184.41 -0.38
320 19 Cal Poly-SLO-C 1-4 259.59 48 Southwest Southern Southwest Dev Dev 542.98 -283.39 -0.52
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
349 8 Cal Poly-Humboldt 2-13 27.1 14 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 342.71 -315.61 -0.92
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.