Club Men's USAU Rankings

2018-19 Season

Data Updated Through April 1st at 10:30am PST. Note that the USAU Preliminary Rankings released Tuesday morning differ slightly, likely due to recently applied game exclusions due to roster validity (unknown until today)

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Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference SoS PDC %
3 1 PoNY NE 1 21-7 2031.3 76 Northeast Metro NY 1834.55 196.75 0.11
11 4 DiG NE 2 21-12 1797.25 67 Northeast East New England 1681.34 115.9 0.07
14 1 GOAT NE 3 18-5 1715.11 34 Northeast Upstate NY 1553.79 161.31 0.1
29 Big Wrench 22-6 1377.85 35 Northeast East New England 1120.17 257.67 0.23
45 1 Mockingbird 13-8 1238.78 39 Northeast West New England 1154.69 84.09 0.07
50 Colt 17-10 1212.86 38 Northeast Metro NY 1190.77 22.09 0.02
54 Blueprint 17-17 1158.68 38 Northeast Metro NY 1193.29 -34.6 -0.03
57 2 Shade 19-8 1100.17 38 Northeast Metro NY 953.99 146.17 0.15
64 Overcast 11-6 1048.22 38 Northeast Upstate NY 898.46 149.75 0.17
77 Deathsquad 20-12 980.92 38 Northeast East New England 855.97 124.96 0.15
85 2 Pesterbug 11-10 930.2 37 Northeast East New England 840 90.2 0.11
87 1 Westchester Magma Bears 14-12 913.88 38 Northeast Metro NY 908.9 4.97 0.01
94 2 Red Tide 19-9 881.52 38 Northeast East New England 767.91 113.61 0.15
105 Bruises 10-16 789.97 37 Northeast East New England 847.84 -57.87 -0.07
134 1 Watch City 8-12 588.9 38 Northeast East New England 679.53 -90.63 -0.13
156 1 One Night 3-16 298.74 38 Northeast East New England 713.9 -415.16 -0.58

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.