College Men's USAU Rankings

2024-25 Season

Data updated through April 28 at 11:45pm EDT

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Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
4 1 North Carolina AC 1 33-3 2359.83 154 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1983.27 376.57 0.19
35 8 South Carolina 22-7 1834.21 55 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1705.53 128.69 0.08
48 11 North Carolina-Wilmington 19-16 1751.95 117 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1726.38 25.58 0.01
62 13 North Carolina State 17-18 1651.33 87 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1700.39 -49.05 -0.03
63 34 Duke 20-12 1648.79 375 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1552.44 96.36 0.06
69 12 North Carolina-Charlotte 13-17 1618.97 297 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1557.44 61.54 0.04
106 10 Appalachian State 18-19 1449.49 175 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1495.53 -46.03 -0.03
122 5 Clemson 17-12 1361.6 227 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1351.58 10.04 0.01
168 38 Charleston 9-9 1207.88 84 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1206.91 0.98 0
172 12 East Carolina 16-22 1184.39 295 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1330.31 -145.91 -0.11
239 16 Wake Forest 8-16 919.66 333 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1136.39 -216.71 -0.19
344 6 Clemson-B 0-6 479.07 369 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI Dev 840.13 -361.04 -0.43

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.