College Men's USAU Rankings

2022-23 Season

Data updated through September 25 at 10:00am EDT

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Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
74 5 Lewis & Clark 9-4 1490.93 30 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1300.22 190.72 0.15
136 17 Pacific Lutheran 4-1 1224.31 59 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1108.14 115.63 0.1
159 13 Puget Sound 6-6 1114.99 49 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1021.16 93.63 0.09
213 18 Reed 3-2 889.21 55 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 854.84 36.05 0.04
222 19 Seattle 3-3 852.21 51 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 790.97 62.61 0.08
228 13 Willamette University 2-4 797.79 70 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1070.16 -270.77 -0.25
287 11 Portland 2-10 543.82 50 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 755.44 -211.95 -0.28
303 10 Whitworth 3-8 434.61 27 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 652.75 -218.24 -0.33
- Pacific Lutheran-B 0-2 -69.78 65 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 538.88 -600 -1.11

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.