College Men's USAU Rankings (AC)

2017-18 Season

Data Updated Through October 24th at 10:30pm PST

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Division I // Division III
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Rank Change Team Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS Contrib Score Contrib Score % of Sos
1 North Carolina AC 1 21-0 2345.34 38 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI 1854.73 490.61 0.26
10 2 Virginia Tech AC 2 14-5 1923.3 64 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI 1722.51 200.79 0.12
12 5 North Carolina State AC 3 19-8 1918.86 46 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI 1722.04 196.82 0.11
16 5 North Carolina-Wilmington AC 4 19-2 1884.51 39 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI 1634.63 249.88 0.15
33 1 Maryland 14-10 1684.28 18 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI 1615.37 68.91 0.04
34 4 William & Mary 23-5 1648.2 8 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI 1390 258.2 0.19
46 South Carolina 9-6 1579.36 8 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI 1544.66 34.7 0.02
54 8 Mary Washington 14-2 1524.23 45 Atlantic Coast Northern Atlantic Coast DIII 1285.1 239.13 0.19
61 4 James Madison 15-11 1472.52 7 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI 1453.09 19.43 0.01
64 3 North Carolina-Charlotte 8-5 1462.5 6 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI 1424.82 37.69 0.03
78 Georgetown 15-14 1415.07 3 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI 1439.5 -24.42 -0.02
84 1 Virginia 11-11 1402.14 10 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI 1321.56 80.58 0.06
86 4 Duke 9-6 1398.98 6 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI 1328.61 70.37 0.05
98 4 Clemson 7-11 1338.04 4 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI 1317.78 20.26 0.02
102 21 Richmond 10-8 1326.88 66 Atlantic Coast Northern Atlantic Coast DIII 1205.28 121.6 0.1
103 4 Delaware 8-6 1324.18 41 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI 1230.2 93.98 0.08
116 6 Appalachian State 12-5 1274.46 0 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI 1133.93 140.53 0.12
126 38 Elon 5-5 1212.12 156 Atlantic Coast Carolina DIII 1228.78 -16.66 -0.01
149 1 Davidson 7-11 1140.86 29 Atlantic Coast Carolina DIII 1264.68 -123.82 -0.1
150 3 North Carolina-Asheville 6-11 1131.08 17 Atlantic Coast Carolina DIII 1158.35 -27.27 -0.02
151 2 George Mason 7-13 1116.84 17 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI 1279.34 -162.5 -0.13
169 Johns Hopkins 9-10 1060.68 48 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI 1150.67 -89.99 -0.08
174 11 East Carolina 8-3 1032.42 14 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI 939.02 93.4 0.1
177 11 Virginia Commonwealth 3-10 1022.23 8 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI 1209.42 -187.19 -0.15
193 21 Liberty 10-9 966.5 114 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI 947.39 19.1 0.02
194 7 George Washington 5-15 964.43 19 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI 1227 -262.57 -0.21
223 20 High Point 11-6 863.1 27 Atlantic Coast Carolina DIII 761.03 102.07 0.13
238 32 Delaware-B 10-2 794.27 80 Atlantic Coast Colonial Dev 541.89 252.38 0.47
249 33 North Greenville 3-4 769.37 76 Atlantic Coast Carolina DIII 842.43 -73.06 -0.09
250 11 Maryland-Baltimore County 7-13 768.7 71 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI 847.13 -78.43 -0.09
252 7 Western Carolina 3-4 762.3 13 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI 822.13 -59.83 -0.07
256 34 Christopher Newport 9-2 757.92 71 Atlantic Coast Northern Atlantic Coast DIII 498.92 259 0.52
270 2 American 8-11 707.3 58 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI 818.24 -110.94 -0.14
273 11 Wake Forest 6-9 701.68 5 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI 781.95 -80.27 -0.1
278 34 James Madison-B 12-5 673.25 81 Atlantic Coast Southern Atlantic Coast Dev 522.81 150.44 0.29
280 21 South Carolina-B 7-4 665.42 39 Atlantic Coast Southern Atlantic Coast Dev 618.56 46.86 0.08
281 25 Navy 4-6 665.4 197 Atlantic Coast Northern Atlantic Coast DIII 821.39 -155.99 -0.19
282 12 Wingate 3-11 662.96 9 Atlantic Coast Carolina DIII 831.36 -168.4 -0.2
- Catholic 0-4 650 102 Atlantic Coast Northern Atlantic Coast DIII 1069.46 -419.46 -0.39
285 32 Maryland-B 6-6 643.68 81 Atlantic Coast Colonial Dev 487.31 156.37 0.32
302 19 Salisbury 10-9 574.53 184 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI 610.26 -35.73 -0.06
303 21 Charleston 5-18 571.48 4 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI 834.28 -262.8 -0.31
318 15 Towson 0-6 510.45 38 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI 989.58 -479.13 -0.48
324 13 Georgetown-B 7-4 489.44 52 Atlantic Coast Colonial Dev 445.13 44.3 0.1
347 29 Radford 1-8 378.28 20 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI 808.35 -430.07 -0.53
356 43 Virginia-B 7-10 350.83 76 Atlantic Coast Southern Atlantic Coast Dev 448.35 -97.52 -0.22
393 Shenandoah 1-6 128.97 64 Atlantic Coast Northern Atlantic Coast DIII 368.21 -239.24 -0.65
404 57 George Washington-B 3-7 16.21 253 Atlantic Coast Colonial Dev 258 -241.79 -0.94
421 30 American-B 1-9 -180.89 37 Atlantic Coast Colonial Dev 220.2 -401.09 -1.82

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.