College Women's USAU Rankings (AC)

2022-23 Season

Data updated through September 25 at 10:00am EDT

FAQ
Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
1 North Carolina AC 1 17-0 2937.91 141 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 2396.69 541.22 0.23
14 Virginia AC 2 22-5 1930.66 139 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1619.8 310.86 0.19
21 North Carolina State 11-6 1756.31 132 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1504.62 251.68 0.17
28 1 Duke 13-9 1682.04 139 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1554.47 127.57 0.08
30 1 South Carolina 13-6 1660.8 133 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1509.36 151.44 0.1
37 1 East Carolina 5-1 1576.17 125 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1184.68 391.49 0.33
41 1 James Madison 15-2 1524.02 120 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1169.89 354.13 0.3
51 Georgetown 12-7 1421.83 120 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1297.88 123.95 0.1
57 Virginia Tech 10-8 1337.15 118 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1255.9 81.25 0.06
62 2 William & Mary 6-7 1277.48 136 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1381.28 -103.8 -0.08
64 1 Appalachian State 6-10 1274.41 136 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1375.13 -100.72 -0.07
80 7 American 9-4 1173.83 154 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1050.59 123.23 0.12
85 10 Catholic 4-6 1104.85 84 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 1138.63 -33.78 -0.03
86 2 Clemson 3-3 1086.5 126 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1050.55 35.94 0.03
93 4 South Carolina-B 2-3 1047.36 128 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev ? 1146.08 -98.73 -0.09
103 3 Virginia Commonwealth 3-10 972.7 117 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1265.53 -292.83 -0.23
107 14 William & Mary-B 2-4 950.58 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 1028.99 -78.41 -0.08
110 1 Charleston 6-4 918.95 131 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1002.81 -83.86 -0.08
115 5 Delaware 4-2 893.93 162 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 784.36 109.57 0.14
125 16 American-B 3-2 818.31 Atlantic Coast ? 1011.66 -193.35 -0.19
129 18 Maryland 2-7 776.19 9 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1030.76 -254.57 -0.25
130 1 Liberty 7-15 773.74 124 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 937.3 -163.56 -0.17
134 1 Johns Hopkins 5-5 735.89 119 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 706.15 29.74 0.04
135 2 Mary Washington 5-8 726.75 119 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 966.57 -239.82 -0.25
144 1 North Carolina-B 2-10 660.77 135 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 923.54 -262.77 -0.28
145 1 Virginia-B 3-9 655.94 133 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 823.88 -167.94 -0.2
149 17 George Washington-B 0-5 619.66 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 927.09 -307.43 -0.33
160 11 Towson 3-7 509.42 270 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 694.42 -185.01 -0.27
181 2 George Washington 5-11 307.11 175 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 498.22 -191.11 -0.38
- George Mason 1-2 295.3 148 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 554.2 -258.9 -0.47
184 1 Georgetown-B 1-10 263.71 138 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 507.24 -243.52 -0.48
186 2 Richmond 2-9 261.23 145 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 489.41 -228.18 -0.47
201 2 Wake Forest 2-8 62.67 150 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 253.75 -191.08 -0.75
202 2 North Carolina-Wilmington 3-9 45.79 164 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I -542.56 588.35 -1.08
215 Elon 0-12 -247.33 151 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 261.12 -508.45 -1.95

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.