College Men's USAU Rankings (OV)

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 %
7 Pittsburgh OV 1 14-6 2093.14 86 Ohio Valley West Penn DI D-I 1998.79 94.35 0.05
16 5 Penn State OV 2 19-9 1921.23 59 Ohio Valley West Penn DI D-I 1720.19 201.04 0.12
34 13 Ohio State 10-11 1641.87 140 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 1642.76 -0.89 0
51 2 Franciscan 14-0 1496.28 7 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 1050.38 445.9 0.42
60 5 Temple 15-6 1435.02 34 Ohio Valley East Penn DI D-I 1263.32 171.71 0.14
70 9 Case Western Reserve 14-7 1366.71 4 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 1241.16 125.55 0.1
71 12 Penn State-B 12-1 1366.46 67 Ohio Valley Ohio Valley Dev Dev 986.95 379.51 0.38
74 4 Cincinnati 5-9 1361.2 6 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 1459.26 -98.06 -0.07
77 7 Cedarville 9-3 1355.5 13 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 1060.91 294.59 0.28
85 1 Carnegie Mellon 12-7 1318.33 20 Ohio Valley West Penn DI D-I 1227.29 91.04 0.07
104 32 Dayton 11-3 1214.61 114 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 1009.38 205.23 0.2
122 12 Oberlin 6-7 1152.55 43 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 1170.91 -18.36 -0.02
123 17 Pennsylvania 11-11 1147.48 59 Ohio Valley East Penn DI D-I 1114.36 33.12 0.03
126 3 Lehigh 8-17 1145.39 13 Ohio Valley East Penn DIII D-III 1261.98 -116.58 -0.09
144 12 Pittsburgh-B 6-6 1062.02 63 Ohio Valley Ohio Valley Dev Dev 1144.31 -82.29 -0.07
149 32 Miami (Ohio) 10-1 1035.96 158 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 824.61 211.34 0.26
152 7 West Chester 11-5 1026.57 34 Ohio Valley East Penn DI D-I 852.38 174.19 0.2
163 6 Xavier 15-6 973.48 32 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 787.97 185.51 0.24
166 4 Villanova 15-4 958.54 19 Ohio Valley East Penn DI D-I 765.54 193 0.25
197 2 Haverford 11-6 836.18 1 Ohio Valley East Penn DIII D-III 803.38 32.81 0.04
199 Messiah 7-13 832.24 7 Ohio Valley West Penn DIII D-III 946.87 -114.63 -0.12
203 West Virginia 10-10 819.37 22 Ohio Valley West Penn DI D-I 785.01 34.36 0.04
204 Ohio 8-10 809.59 15 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 817.83 -8.24 -0.01
214 35 Scranton 2-5 762.89 122 Ohio Valley East Penn DIII D-III 1184.25 -421.37 -0.36
217 4 Kenyon 1-6 758.95 20 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 1105.01 -346.07 -0.31
228 26 Akron 3-2 719.45 163 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 565.8 153.65 0.27
232 23 Cincinnati -B 3-3 706.38 164 Ohio Valley Ohio Valley Dev Dev 756.22 -49.84 -0.07
252 24 Dickinson 8-6 610.43 80 Ohio Valley West Penn DIII D-III 606.42 4.01 0.01
280 5 Drexel 2-10 473.63 32 Ohio Valley East Penn DI D-I 930.82 -457.2 -0.49
281 5 Edinboro 8-11 450.84 10 Ohio Valley West Penn DI D-I 492.44 -41.6 -0.08
294 64 Toledo 6-8 387.55 291 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 397.46 -9.91 -0.02
303 16 Wright State 4-7 338.47 158 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 496.58 -158.11 -0.32
304 8 Kent State 2-9 331.64 102 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 601.18 -269.54 -0.45
305 10 Penn State-Behrend 2-5 329.4 112 Ohio Valley West Penn DIII D-III 465.66 -136.26 -0.29
306 22 Swarthmore 4-8 324.08 69 Ohio Valley East Penn DIII D-III 448.48 -124.41 -0.28
344 8 Lehigh-B 3-9 86.14 12 Ohio Valley East Penn DIII Dev 305.2 -219.06 -0.72
361 12 Ohio-B 0-7 -46.98 34 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 511.13 -558.11 -1.09
363 10 Case Western Reserve-B 2-4 -54.69 98 Ohio Valley Ohio Valley Dev Dev -51.08 -3.61 0.07
373 9 Dayton-B 1-5 -330.58 84 Ohio Valley Ohio Valley Dev Dev -99.29 -231.3 2.33
374 13 West Chester-B 0-10 -332.24 27 Ohio Valley Ohio Valley Dev Dev 228.88 -561.12 -2.45
375 10 Denison 1-5 -350.49 84 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III -103.79 -246.71 2.38

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.