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 %
195 17 Minnesota-B 10-17 1083.86 163 North Central North Central Dev Dev 1118.17 -34.28 -0.03
222 1 Wisconsin-B 12-13 989.96 279 North Central North Central Dev Dev 1092.04 -102.05 -0.09
273 20 Minnesota State-Mankato 8-4 803.78 403 North Central North Central Dev D-I 794.87 8.92 0.01
317 14 Minnesota-C 7-14 616.16 385 North Central North Central Dev Dev 668.74 -52.57 -0.08
392 3 Wisconsin-C 4-8 140.91 741 North Central North Central Dev Dev 272.34 -131.42 -0.48
402 15 Wisconsin-Milwaukee-B 4-11 17.81 425 North Central North Central Dev Dev 89.37 -71.58 -0.8
422 37 Wisconsin-Eau Claire-B 0-5 334 North Central North Central Dev Dev NaN NaN NaN

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.