Club Men's USAU Rankings

2023-24 Season

Data updated through April 1 at 8:00pm EDT

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Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference SoS PDC %
4 Chain Lightning SE 1 18-7 2211.89 135 Southeast East Coast 1991.66 220.23 0.11
28 2 Tanasi 13-10 1732.45 103 Southeast East Coast 1650.37 82.09 0.05
30 4 Delirium 19-10 1678.68 89 Southeast East Coast 1574.91 103.78 0.07
56 4 Little Red Wagon 23-10 1497.91 60 Southeast East Coast 1326.07 171.86 0.13
61 4 Lost Boys 16-14 1465.93 137 Southeast East Coast 1450.8 15.14 0.01
64 1 Hooch 16-9 1448.57 91 Southeast East Coast 1301.24 147.34 0.11
85 3 Space Cowboys 14-17 1312.3 87 Southeast East Coast 1357.49 -45.18 -0.03
93 9 Charleston Heat Stroke 17-10 1291.36 94 Southeast East Coast 1209.55 81.82 0.07
116 Atlanta Arson 16-12 1143.89 63 Southeast East Coast 1213.49 -69.66 -0.06
119 Tennessee Folklore 6-10 1100.59 87 Southeast East Coast 1260.14 -159.54 -0.13
134 1 Dyno 7-17 1026.16 81 Southeast East Coast 1156.88 -130.7 -0.11
144 5 Music City Mafia 8-14 965.1 76 Southeast East Coast 1128.45 -163.34 -0.14
150 4 Nashville Mudcats 7-19 926.2 85 Southeast East Coast 1115.94 -189.74 -0.17

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.