College Women's USAU Rankings (GL)

2022-23 Season

Data updated through April 3 at 2:00pm EDT

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Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
26 2 Notre Dame GL 1 14-5 1688.59 132 Great Lakes Eastern Great Lakes DI D-I 1460.62 227.98 0.16
35 1 Michigan 8-13 1619.86 144 Great Lakes Eastern Great Lakes DI D-I 1634.1 -14.23 -0.01
38 1 Chicago 8-4 1567.49 134 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 1568.34 -0.84 0
70 1 Northwestern 9-11 1239.03 145 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 1257.96 -18.93 -0.02
88 1 Kentucky 4-3 1081.05 137 Great Lakes Eastern Great Lakes DI D-I 1143.62 -62.57 -0.05
122 3 Purdue 4-3 828.64 145 Great Lakes Eastern Great Lakes DI D-I 789.96 38.68 0.05
138 1 Michigan State 3-3 706.41 138 Great Lakes Eastern Great Lakes DI D-I 781.44 -75.03 -0.1
154 2 Loyola-Chicago 2-8 585.85 116 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 830.61 -244.77 -0.29
157 17 Knox 6-4 551.44 288 Great Lakes Great Lakes DIII D-III 589.71 -38.27 -0.06
171 7 Illinois 8-13 409.26 213 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 573.11 -163.85 -0.29
175 2 Michigan-B 3-2 392.69 146 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 299.19 93.5 0.31
183 2 Indiana 2-4 271.55 162 Great Lakes Eastern Great Lakes DI D-I 437.25 -165.7 -0.38
208 5 Northwestern-B 2-11 10.83 166 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 219.58 -208.75 -0.95
210 3 Purdue-B 1-4 -33.35 182 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 288.69 -322.04 -1.12
215 2 Notre Dame-B 2-10 -204.43 21 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 122.47 -326.91 -2.67
- North Park 0-4 -342.23 267 Great Lakes Great Lakes DIII D-III -43.48 -298.75 6.87

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.