College Women'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 %
8 5 Stanford SW 1 22-12 2134.01 341 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 2037 97.03 0.05
10 California-San Diego SW 2 23-16 2113.72 382 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 2008.6 105.13 0.05
13 1 Cal Poly-SLO SW 3 26-12 2079.87 363 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 2046.28 33.6 0.02
14 3 California-Santa Barbara SW 4 20-9 2069.99 234 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1921.24 148.76 0.08
15 3 California-Santa Cruz SW 5 18-12 2043.77 433 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1963.77 80 0.04
23 7 California-Davis 15-17 1881.12 426 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1858.22 22.91 0.01
30 5 UCLA 21-23 1718.34 415 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1802.32 -83.96 -0.05
40 1 California 17-15 1581.88 285 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1669.94 -88.02 -0.05
41 Southern California 14-18 1573.6 269 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1730.01 -156.37 -0.09
68 Santa Clara 16-12 1300.07 287 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1254.01 46.1 0.04
78 7 Grand Canyon 13-5 1219.9 211 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1004.2 216 0.22
83 20 California-Irvine 23-12 1194.75 448 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1065.9 128.91 0.12
106 17 San Diego State 15-12 1039.72 356 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1005.92 33.89 0.03
114 1 Arizona State 16-14 955.88 240 Southwest Desert DI D-I 990.93 -35.3 -0.04
123 19 California-San Diego-B 17-13 915.74 351 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 832.94 82.87 0.1
133 11 Claremont 11-10 823.43 327 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 815.75 7.68 0.01
134 4 Northern Arizona 4-8 816.53 273 Southwest Desert DI D-I 982.72 -165.76 -0.17
141 6 Stanford-B 1-5 745.35 303 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1119.84 -374.48 -0.33
143 6 California-B 5-6 734.19 298 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 745.57 -11.38 -0.02
145 19 Claremont-B 1-2 729.25 385 Southwest ? 842.56 -113.31 -0.13
165 32 Cal Poly-SLO-B 7-14 636.05 424 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 849.97 -213.92 -0.25
178 7 Nevada-Reno 5-12 563.48 241 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 689.04 -125.55 -0.18
180 18 Arizona 6-14 537.6 317 Southwest Desert DI D-I 683.62 -146.23 -0.21
182 28 Occidental 5-6 534.79 417 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 682.59 -147.8 -0.22
192 23 California-Davis-B 1-5 475.58 332 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 680.52 -204.94 -0.3
196 30 UCLA-B 10-13 468.07 369 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 540.58 -72.46 -0.13
219 13 Cal Poly-Humboldt 2-15 229.91 287 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 564.54 -334.63 -0.59
220 26 Cal State-Long Beach 5-17 222.63 373 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 234.12 -11.39 -0.05
222 23 California-Santa Barbara-B 1-5 214.54 358 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 491.09 -276.55 -0.56
242 18 Arizona-B 0-6 44.21 302 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 519.16 -473.83 -0.91
249 29 California-San Diego-C 3-20 -19.56 404 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 294.93 -314.49 -1.07
263 20 Southern California-B 0-7 -557.53 342 Southwest ? -19.56 -537.98 27.51

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.