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 %
188 8 Georgia Tech-B 9-3 1117.81 278 Southeast Southeast Dev Dev 914.85 202.97 0.22
263 3 Georgia-B 5-8 822.37 255 Southeast Southeast Dev Dev 895.89 -73.51 -0.08
320 12 Mississippi State-B 5-12 603.09 266 Southeast Southeast Dev Dev 817.83 -214.7 -0.26
333 37 Florida-B 5-5 566.66 170 Southeast Southeast Dev Dev 629.21 -62.53 -0.1
339 26 Alabama-B 5-9 533.8 232 Southeast Southeast Dev Dev 708.97 -175.17 -0.25
373 12 LSU-B 0-4 292.13 305 Southeast Southeast Dev Dev 663.02 -370.9 -0.56
393 20 Tennessee-Chattanooga -B 0-7 138.31 229 Southeast Southeast Dev Dev 647.62 -509.28 -0.79
397 30 South Florida-B 0-15 102.31 173 Southeast Southeast Dev Dev 552.01 -449.69 -0.81

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.