Club Men's USAU Rankings

2023-24 Season

Data updated through March 27 at 8:00am EDT

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Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference SoS PDC %
15 2 GOAT NE 3 12-7 1972.27 156 Northeast Upstate NY 1827.96 144.33 0.08
158 13 Alibi 16-17 887.94 125 Northeast Upstate NY 907.65 -19.7 -0.02
189 5 Dirty Laundry 14-16 748.17 105 Northeast Upstate NY 693.75 54.43 0.08
200 6 Rochester Open Club 10-8 682.18 105 Northeast Upstate NY 569.01 113.18 0.2
226 7 Buffalo Frostbite 9-22 486.54 108 Northeast Upstate NY 669.21 -182.66 -0.27
238 2 Mohawk Valley Wild 3-13 327.36 107 Northeast Upstate NY 667.92 -340.56 -0.51

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.