College Women's USAU Rankings (SW)

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 %
8 Stanford SW 1 21-8 2233.59 141 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 2056.21 177.38 0.09
12 California-Santa Barbara SW 2 16-6 2058.68 141 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1797.92 260.76 0.15
17 California-San Diego SW 3 12-10 1824.83 141 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1813.03 11.8 0.01
25 1 California-Davis 10-12 1720.21 141 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1766.72 -46.51 -0.03
29 UCLA 9-18 1664.88 141 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1771.68 -106.81 -0.06
31 1 California 11-19 1658.22 142 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1787.2 -128.98 -0.07
39 Santa Clara 12-9 1539.61 140 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1517.62 21.98 0.01
50 1 California-Santa Cruz 15-7 1437.9 142 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1286.03 151.87 0.12
53 1 Cal Poly-SLO 10-13 1380.28 141 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1476.73 -96.45 -0.07
79 2 Nevada-Reno 11-7 1175.97 142 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1100.09 75.89 0.07
84 1 California-Irvine 9-3 1114.13 140 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 828.46 285.67 0.34
87 1 Southern California 7-17 1086.29 141 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1285.44 -199.14 -0.15
90 Claremont 11-7 1064.32 140 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 972.75 91.56 0.09
101 3 Occidental 12-5 976.08 132 Southwest SoCal DI D-III 765.11 210.97 0.28
108 3 California-San Diego-B 9-10 950.45 141 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 983.29 -32.84 -0.03
117 3 Arizona 7-4 884.85 136 Southwest Desert DI D-I 737.42 147.43 0.2
119 2 San Diego State 2-5 844.61 142 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1051.55 -206.94 -0.2
150 3 Arizona State 8-8 607.13 143 Southwest Desert DI D-I 620.68 -13.55 -0.02
158 Stanford-B 3-11 521.8 143 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 826.43 -304.63 -0.37
162 2 UCLA-B 2-9 500.9 140 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 846.62 -345.72 -0.41
168 3 Grand Canyon 5-5 445.55 95 Southwest Desert DI D-I 585.02 -139.47 -0.24
170 1 Northern Arizona 5-8 410.14 148 Southwest Desert DI D-I 658.15 -248.01 -0.38
178 2 Chico State 2-12 351.46 146 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 699.25 -347.79 -0.5
197 3 California-Davis-B 2-10 111.88 178 Southwest Southern Southwest Dev Dev 260.43 -148.55 -0.57
198 2 California-B 1-6 101.82 152 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 324.56 -222.74 -0.69
220 6 Arizona-B 0-10 -488.12 429 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 111.88 -600 -5.36

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.