College Women's USAU Rankings (AC)

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 %
4 North Carolina AC 1 22-3 2622.41 25 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 2278.63 343.78 0.15
26 North Carolina State 7-5 1928.54 10 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 2065.93 -137.38 -0.07
38 1 South Carolina 7-6 1763.12 16 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1663.21 99.91 0.06
39 Virginia 11-14 1738.89 9 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1792.41 -53.51 -0.03
50 2 Davidson 4-1 1613.93 5 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 1334.28 279.71 0.21
53 4 American 9-1 1584.8 48 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1160.58 424.08 0.37
57 2 William & Mary 4-7 1544.4 8 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1689.76 -145.35 -0.09
59 1 Georgetown 14-4 1519.65 24 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1360.22 159.5 0.12
70 1 James Madison 7-7 1419.57 23 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1406.61 12.92 0.01
88 7 Virginia Tech 8-10 1297.26 16 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1415.54 -118.25 -0.08
94 12 Duke 10-8 1267.64 43 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1161.39 106.26 0.09
97 5 Appalachian State 3-7 1220.34 1 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1443.28 -222.97 -0.15
102 East Carolina 9-4 1172.52 16 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1037.44 134.69 0.13
112 5 Maryland 6-6 1067.34 60 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1014.39 52.96 0.05
120 14 Johns Hopkins 10-2 1007.99 166 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 759.97 248 0.33
123 6 Liberty 6-12 978.52 39 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1141.08 -162.64 -0.14
129 18 Richmond 7-4 946.74 123 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 1013.12 -66.38 -0.07
133 4 Charleston 7-5 916.93 15 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 963.73 -46.66 -0.05
144 12 Catholic 6-6 848.98 26 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 859.93 -10.33 -0.01
150 15 North Carolina-B 2-10 792.78 44 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 1118 -325.21 -0.29
151 13 George Washington 10-7 791.23 37 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 772.65 18.51 0.02
152 6 Delaware 3-3 779.11 44 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 648.47 130.54 0.2
156 11 Clemson 3-6 722.32 19 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 426.98 295.34 0.69
162 7 South Carolina-B 2-9 640.77 23 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 885.3 -243.72 -0.28
167 7 Wake Forest 4-7 574.52 11 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 547.62 20.88 0.04
181 16 Virginia-B 1-10 461.64 27 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 748.27 -285.91 -0.38
191 13 Elon 1-5 347.39 31 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 670.64 -322.11 -0.48
196 7 North Carolina-Wilmington 2-4 266.07 24 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 18.12 247.89 13.68
207 27 Georgetown-B 0-5 109.48 243 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 709 -600 -0.85
218 13 William & Mary-B 1-4 -111.77 13 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 21.06 -132.77 -6.3
224 12 American-B 0-5 -411.68 5 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 188.3 -600 -3.19

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.