College Women's USAU Rankings (SW)

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 %
6 Stanford SW 1 14-6 2535.54 258 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 2283.13 252.41 0.11
9 California-Santa Barbara SW 2 16-7 2404.02 258 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 2219.28 184.74 0.08
14 California-Santa Cruz SW 3 6-8 2159.6 258 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 2262.77 -103.16 -0.05
15 California-San Diego SW 4 10-11 2144.17 258 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 2201.58 -57.41 -0.03
23 Cal Poly-SLO 13-11 1977.47 260 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1998.11 -20.64 -0.01
24 1 California-Davis 8-12 1957.14 258 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1998.55 -41.41 -0.02
29 1 California 7-18 1865.29 258 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 2113.36 -248.06 -0.12
31 1 UCLA 7-12 1853.69 262 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1869.66 -15.96 -0.01
57 5 Southern California 6-11 1544.01 254 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1704.85 -160.83 -0.09
72 4 Grand Canyon 4-2 1383.65 247 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1192.16 191.5 0.16
74 4 California-San Diego-B 10-8 1380.91 250 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1455.87 -74.95 -0.05
76 4 Arizona 8-1 1365.83 249 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1149.89 215.94 0.19
84 9 Claremont 3-7 1286.02 251 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 1601.4 -315.38 -0.2
86 8 San Diego State 10-3 1275.64 247 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1136.3 139.34 0.12
88 7 Northern Arizona 3-3 1265.69 247 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1206.69 59.01 0.05
95 7 Santa Clara 7-2 1210.78 247 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1025.88 184.91 0.18
97 7 Nevada-Reno 9-3 1203.24 247 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 958.17 245.07 0.26
99 7 California-Irvine 7-4 1189.69 247 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1011.06 178.63 0.18
121 8 Arizona State 2-4 971.89 247 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1124.6 -152.71 -0.14
149 8 Cal Poly-SLO-B 2-7 723.14 247 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1002.98 -279.83 -0.28
150 8 Occidental 2-4 719.99 247 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 967.09 -247.1 -0.26
152 7 California-B 6-9 677.9 246 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 782.51 -104.61 -0.13
172 4 Arizona-B 0-6 437.05 246 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1010 -572.94 -0.57
- Stanford-B 1-2 392.15 53 Southwest ? -207.78 600 -2.89
181 2 California-Davis-B 3-9 341.54 247 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 446.61 -105.07 -0.24
193 2 UCLA-B 1-7 171.07 246 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 293.9 -122.82 -0.42
210 6 California-San Diego-C 0-5 -287.55 246 Southwest SoCal DI Dev 267.13 -554.67 -2.08

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.