College Women's USAU Rankings (NW)

2024-25 Season

Data updated through March 23 at 10:00pm EDT

FAQ
Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
1 British Columbia NW 1 18-1 2998.6 147 Northwest Cascadia DI D-I 2609.45 389.17 0.15
5 1 Oregon NW 2 14-6 2738.45 73 Northwest Cascadia DI D-I 2575.91 162.56 0.06
8 2 Washington NW 3 11-8 2532.5 55 Northwest Cascadia DI D-I 2439.77 92.75 0.04
12 Utah NW 4 12-7 2484.16 92 Northwest Big Sky DI D-I 2445.06 39.13 0.02
15 4 Victoria NW 5 7-13 2365.98 41 Northwest Cascadia DI D-I 2453.61 -87.6 -0.04
18 3 Brigham Young 9-10 2297.4 158 Northwest Big Sky DI D-I 2346.92 -49.51 -0.02
20 Western Washington 11-8 2256.15 43 Northwest Cascadia DI D-I 2264.5 -8.33 0
44 8 Whitman 12-2 1836.74 186 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1558.41 278.33 0.18
48 British Columbia-B 4-3 1763.8 132 Northwest Cascadia DI Dev 1711.43 52.38 0.03
49 Oregon State 14-6 1739.99 148 Northwest Cascadia DI D-I 1660.14 79.86 0.05
55 2 Lewis & Clark 9-4 1667.17 175 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1614.58 52.59 0.03
59 5 Portland 11-8 1647.19 159 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1591.94 55.26 0.03
68 5 Utah State 3-1 1524.86 186 Northwest Big Sky DI D-I 1179.4 345.48 0.29
79 7 Montana 4-3 1402.26 186 Northwest Big Sky DI D-I 1428.25 -25.98 -0.02
113 14 Puget Sound 5-7 1186.67 182 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1263.96 -77.29 -0.06
139 10 Montana State 2-5 961.64 186 Northwest Big Sky DI D-I 1108.16 -146.5 -0.13
155 5 Pacific Lutheran 4-7 830.47 166 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 885.34 -54.85 -0.06
178 2 Utah-B 0-7 610.93 186 Northwest Big Sky DI Dev 1166.83 -555.88 -0.48
188 5 Washington-B 2-7 550.71 165 Northwest Cascadia DI Dev 701.63 -150.9 -0.22
205 3 Lewis & Clark -B 0-6 284.7 160 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 655.99 -371.27 -0.57

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.