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 %
149 14 Cal Poly-SLO-B 12-6 1155.09 43 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1089.04 65.92 0.06
166 17 California-San Diego-B 9-4 1093.76 66 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 890.32 203.79 0.23
221 15 California-B 3-8 854.61 39 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 990.84 -136.25 -0.14
243 19 California-Santa Barbara-B 4-7 752.23 66 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 840.3 -86.2 -0.1
260 26 Arizona State-B 2-4 690.05 76 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 734.82 -44.82 -0.06
262 25 Southern California-B 3-3 685.02 76 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 621.66 62.62 0.1
275 20 UCLA-B 6-7 608.47 76 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 616.2 -8.04 -0.01
288 13 California-Davis-B 3-7 538.88 57 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 708.67 -178.44 -0.25
291 13 California-Santa Cruz-B 3-13 523.06 61 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 706.94 -184.01 -0.26
312 12 San Diego State-B 1-4 356.12 70 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 635.33 -279.38 -0.44
333 20 California-San Diego-C 2-10 240.47 74 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 576.09 -334.17 -0.58
349 18 Grand Canyon-B 1-8 62.64 87 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev -62.29 125 -2.01

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.