College Men's USAU Rankings (AC)

2023-24 Season

Data updated through April 1 at 8:00pm EDT

FAQ
Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
1 North Carolina AC 1 24-2 2288.56 18 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1920.61 367.96 0.19
13 3 North Carolina State AC 2 18-9 1946.6 42 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1806.77 139.83 0.08
28 10 North Carolina-Wilmington 15-12 1734.5 109 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1709.59 24.91 0.01
29 South Carolina 18-9 1683.91 52 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1685.98 -2.07 0
36 2 North Carolina-Charlotte 13-14 1618.26 20 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1630.22 -11.96 -0.01
38 1 Duke 14-7 1590.76 16 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1449.01 141.75 0.1
52 8 Virginia Tech 10-10 1475.52 43 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1463.58 11.94 0.01
58 6 Maryland 14-6 1442.96 25 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1366.04 76.93 0.06
61 12 William & Mary 14-13 1432.01 50 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1369.81 62.2 0.05
66 17 Virginia 8-13 1394.17 111 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1512.17 -118.01 -0.08
68 1 James Madison 11-10 1376.89 20 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1354.4 22.49 0.02
72 1 Georgetown 5-7 1365.7 30 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1403.43 -37.73 -0.03
73 10 Richmond 12-8 1364.26 20 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 1277.91 86.35 0.07
84 5 Appalachian State 12-11 1326.8 40 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1298.03 28.77 0.02
99 10 Elon 10-3 1242.51 23 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 1041.19 201.32 0.19
116 Liberty 12-6 1182.96 8 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1058.62 124.34 0.12
125 2 Davidson 15-9 1146.57 6 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 1091.47 55.1 0.05
130 10 Towson 12-8 1116.83 45 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1027.61 89.22 0.09
150 10 Navy 6-8 1034.29 45 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 1068.34 -34.04 -0.03
156 7 Johns Hopkins 11-8 1019.03 53 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 834.36 184.68 0.22
173 3 Clemson 10-4 939.13 3 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 913.96 25.16 0.03
174 2 North Carolina-Asheville 9-4 936.47 12 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 864.81 71.66 0.08
175 2 Maryland-Baltimore County 7-5 928 11 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 938.79 -10.79 -0.01
184 17 George Mason 5-7 876.05 70 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 932.9 -56.86 -0.06
187 3 Salisbury 5-1 863.68 6 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 640.58 223.1 0.35
189 1 East Carolina 10-8 862.04 14 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 841.86 20.17 0.02
198 Delaware 3-10 834.68 7 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 965.11 -130.43 -0.14
206 25 George Washington 7-11 803.3 125 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 876.78 -73.47 -0.08
208 15 Virginia Commonwealth 8-10 785.38 52 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 871.02 -85.64 -0.1
210 Charleston 6-8 776.87 9 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 871.86 -94.99 -0.11
216 5 North Carolina State-B 5-6 760.32 9 Atlantic Coast Southern Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 785.66 -25.34 -0.03
224 11 American 5-13 731.75 64 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 801.46 -69.71 -0.09
231 23 Christopher Newport 11-8 712.61 59 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 726.67 -14.07 -0.02
235 6 North Carolina-B 5-10 687.46 8 Atlantic Coast Southern Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 902.96 -215.49 -0.24
238 1 Wake Forest 4-5 675.13 12 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 861.6 -186.46 -0.22
239 Maryland-B 6-0 674.78 Atlantic Coast ? 157.94 516.84 3.27
256 24 Virginia Tech-B 5-7 576.62 97 Atlantic Coast Southern Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 623.12 -46.5 -0.07
271 5 High Point 2-4 511.1 4 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 737.06 -225.96 -0.31
288 28 Georgetown-B 5-0 412.75 199 Atlantic Coast Colonial Dev Dev -26.38 439.13 -16.64
296 5 South Carolina-B 3-14 369.12 4 Atlantic Coast Southern Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 693.2 -324.09 -0.47
298 46 Mary Washington 0-12 363.78 210 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 896.69 -532.91 -0.59
301 6 Virginia-B 3-8 349.24 7 Atlantic Coast Southern Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 464.59 -115.34 -0.25
308 9 James Madison-B 3-3 316.58 11 Atlantic Coast Southern Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 294.71 21.87 0.07
324 10 Coastal Carolina 0-10 226.15 4 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 705.09 -478.94 -0.68
328 Richmond-B 3-3 185.68 Atlantic Coast ? 197.02 -11.34 -0.06
346 1 George Washington-B 6-6 43.86 98 Atlantic Coast Colonial Dev Dev 190.14 -146.27 -0.77
348 7 Delaware-B 2-3 29.86 239 Atlantic Coast Colonial Dev Dev 6.79 23.07 3.4
362 3 Johns Hopkins-B 2-3 -48.84 196 Atlantic Coast Colonial Dev Dev 66.22 -115.06 -1.74
369 1 American-B 2-9 -182.5 355 Atlantic Coast Colonial Dev Dev 69.95 -252.44 -3.61
372 10 William & Mary-B 0-6 -271.9 91 Atlantic Coast Southern Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 144.19 -416.1 -2.89

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.