College Men's USAU Rankings (SW)

2024-25 Season

Data updated through April 28 at 11:45pm EDT

FAQ
Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
6 Cal Poly-SLO SW 1 33-6 2267.97 140 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1972.87 295.11 0.15
9 California-Santa Cruz SW 2 27-9 2185.14 164 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1930.91 254.25 0.13
13 1 California SW 3 28-14 2103.63 134 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1979.76 123.88 0.06
31 2 California-Santa Barbara 19-21 1861.88 201 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1864.03 -2.14 0
41 California-San Diego 15-22 1792.31 171 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1829.52 -37.2 -0.02
46 4 Stanford 23-21 1765.36 148 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1763.54 1.83 0
54 1 UCLA 15-19 1704.08 169 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1788.97 -84.87 -0.05
65 7 Grand Canyon 15-5 1645.05 144 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1500.51 144.55 0.1
84 1 Southern California 20-13 1519.35 202 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1418.5 100.87 0.07
91 1 Cal Poly-CCWR 4-1 1493.01 209 Southwest SoCal DI Dev 1038.02 455 0.44
107 12 Claremont 10-4 1444.82 169 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 1297.55 147.28 0.11
109 3 San Diego State 23-12 1428.77 199 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1326.76 102.02 0.08
119 28 Cal Poly-SLO-B 14-8 1367.2 77 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1291.41 75.8 0.06
120 9 Arizona State 8-12 1365.92 241 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1400.51 -34.58 -0.02
124 13 San Jose State 20-13 1358.94 152 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1244.35 114.6 0.09
127 13 Santa Clara 9-13 1341.61 265 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1438.16 -96.54 -0.07
136 22 California-Irvine 8-10 1320.22 123 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1420.55 -100.32 -0.07
173 California-Davis 5-19 1182.36 237 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1391.63 -209.26 -0.15
175 38 California-Santa Cruz-B 15-7 1180.4 86 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 964.97 215.44 0.22
186 5 Arizona 11-8 1120 215 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1075.82 44.19 0.04
199 13 Occidental 7-7 1075.05 199 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 1085.5 -10.44 -0.01
200 25 Cal Poly-Humboldt 11-12 1064.82 128 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1084.15 -19.32 -0.02
211 3 UCLA-B 13-15 1025.29 260 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1011.17 14.14 0.01
216 25 Cal Poly-Pomona 4-12 1015.56 160 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1235.76 -220.2 -0.18
237 1 Loyola Marymount 5-12 925.37 276 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1137.45 -212.06 -0.19
249 14 Northern Arizona 5-9 885.56 328 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1029.82 -144.25 -0.14
255 7 Santa Clara-B 1-2 861.57 243 Southwest ? 949.32 -87.74 -0.09
261 46 Nevada-Reno 8-9 831.64 88 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 903.11 -71.46 -0.08
269 8 Grand Canyon-B 2-4 807.39 334 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 941.26 -133.85 -0.14
276 10 Chico State 2-14 784.1 237 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1065.72 -281.6 -0.26
279 17 California-B 10-19 777.31 218 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 932.74 -155.42 -0.17
285 21 Southern California-B 6-6 753.46 197 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 791.93 -38.46 -0.05
299 19 California-Santa Barbara-B 3-12 687.76 223 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 895.47 -207.7 -0.23
316 60 Arizona State-B 2-8 618.09 745 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 870.41 -252.31 -0.29
327 23 Cal State-Long Beach 1-14 582.29 219 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 976.11 -393.81 -0.4
340 24 Stanford-B 0-5 532.96 246 Southwest NorCal Dev Dev 890.28 -357.32 -0.4
350 11 California-San Diego-B 4-13 436.28 253 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 670.07 -233.78 -0.35
374 21 Cal Poly-SLO-C 0-5 288.4 206 Southwest Southern Southwest Dev Dev 832.43 -544.02 -0.65
376 44 San Diego State-B 1-14 266.51 43 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 656.88 -390.36 -0.59

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.