College Women's USAU Rankings (AC)

2024-25 Season

Data updated through May 4 at 8:45pm EDT (some scores likely missing)

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Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
9 North Carolina AC 1 25-5 2122.91 5 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1906.34 216.57 0.11
21 Virginia 28-9 1901.06 2 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1736 165.06 0.1
26 1 Georgetown 21-8 1801 1 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1597.47 203.54 0.13
37 William & Mary 15-9 1602.87 1 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1563.92 38.95 0.02
42 1 Duke 23-9 1565.5 1 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1515.23 50.27 0.03
45 2 American 21-11 1542.41 1 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1538.13 4.29 0
50 Liberty 20-9 1489.97 1 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1463.23 26.74 0.02
53 Maryland 17-14 1457.11 1 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1448.15 8.97 0.01
57 James Madison 13-12 1406.04 1 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1433.42 -27.38 -0.02
60 South Carolina 12-12 1384.98 1 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1367.84 17.14 0.01
69 North Carolina State 9-13 1294.32 1 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1439.68 -145.36 -0.1
78 2 Appalachian State 15-13 1215.16 0 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1078.4 136.76 0.13
83 1 Clemson 12-6 1163.67 0 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1037.58 126.09 0.12
84 1 Richmond 12-5 1148.86 0 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 1071.9 76.97 0.07
102 1 Virginia Tech 6-16 1049.35 1 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1259.21 -209.85 -0.17
126 2 North Carolina-Wilmington 11-24 847.29 0 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 935.52 -88.23 -0.09
138 2 George Washington 9-13 791.3 0 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 829.81 -38.51 -0.05
141 3 Catholic 6-11 734.02 0 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 739.32 -5.3 -0.01
149 1 Davidson 11-8 704.52 0 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 686.26 18.27 0.03
151 1 North Carolina-B 10-9 689.22 0 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 495.24 193.98 0.39
159 1 Charleston 8-17 665 0 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 824.53 -159.53 -0.19
166 1 East Carolina 5-6 625.91 0 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 667.89 -41.97 -0.06
168 1 Delaware 8-5 609.22 1 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 585.39 23.83 0.04
179 George Mason 6-6 543.78 0 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 565.44 -21.65 -0.04
187 1 Wake Forest 3-9 494.81 0 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 649.6 -154.79 -0.24
207 Towson 4-8 301.29 1 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 358.64 -57.34 -0.16
211 1 Georgetown-B 6-7 274.31 1 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 295.6 -21.29 -0.07
226 1 South Carolina-B 4-9 187.46 1 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 300.02 -112.56 -0.38
228 1 Elon 1-9 165.12 0 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 428.82 -263.7 -0.61
230 1 Johns Hopkins 3-9 155.69 1 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 483.38 -327.69 -0.68
238 1 William & Mary-B 2-11 75.82 1 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 236.57 -160.76 -0.68
252 American-B 4-15 -60.35 1 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 83.09 -143.44 -1.73
260 Virginia-B 0-12 -409.58 1 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 83.34 -492.92 -5.91
263 2 Maryland-B 0-3 443 Atlantic Coast ? NaN NaN NaN

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.