College Women's USAU Rankings (SW)

2024-25 Season

Data updated through March 23 at 10:00pm EDT

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Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
9 2 California-Santa Cruz SW 1 12-8 2500.79 86 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 2368.31 132.51 0.06
11 2 California-San Diego SW 2 14-12 2492.6 108 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 2465.56 27.06 0.01
13 6 Stanford SW 3 13-11 2474.71 144 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 2454.76 19.97 0.01
14 1 Cal Poly-SLO SW 4 17-9 2438.37 77 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 2432.01 6.39 0
16 California-Santa Barbara SW 5 11-8 2322.59 82 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 2309.84 12.78 0.01
17 California-Davis SW 6 9-11 2315.73 80 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 2289.39 26.36 0.01
23 UCLA 14-16 2141.47 61 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 2278.15 -136.65 -0.06
39 3 California 11-9 1884.26 106 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1954.51 -70.24 -0.04
41 4 Southern California 6-12 1850.35 79 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 2135.66 -285.29 -0.13
53 3 California-Irvine 18-5 1671.66 185 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1283.79 387.86 0.3
58 2 Santa Clara 10-6 1648.7 134 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1492.64 156.07 0.1
78 16 San Diego State 13-4 1424.99 288 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1268.55 156.43 0.12
86 13 Grand Canyon 5-1 1351.56 217 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1128.66 222.88 0.2
101 21 California-San Diego-B 10-9 1265.93 219 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1132.04 133.86 0.12
106 19 Arizona State 12-7 1226.68 200 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1100.91 125.75 0.11
112 9 Occidental 4-2 1187.9 155 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 1269.33 -81.43 -0.06
115 7 Cal Poly-SLO-B 3-7 1172.4 157 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1368.5 -196.1 -0.14
116 19 Northern Arizona 2-4 1149.45 235 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1350.9 -201.47 -0.15
119 2 California-B 5-6 1122.77 147 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1134.16 -11.38 -0.01
120 13 Claremont-B 1-2 1121.99 209 Southwest ? 1235.27 -113.31 -0.09
122 4 Stanford-B 1-5 1112.71 147 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1442.59 -329.86 -0.23
125 11 Claremont 7-10 1076.23 203 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 1285.61 -209.39 -0.16
140 2 Nevada-Reno 3-7 942.84 148 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1124.72 -181.86 -0.16
141 1 California-Davis-B 1-5 931.71 149 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1136.66 -204.94 -0.18
148 7 Arizona 6-12 862.81 201 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1035.43 -172.64 -0.17
153 9 UCLA-B 7-10 837.47 219 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 972.06 -134.63 -0.14
180 Cal Poly-Humboldt 1-10 598.79 151 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 972.89 -374.09 -0.38
182 8 Cal State-Long Beach 5-12 580.57 218 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 650.92 -70.38 -0.11
189 10 California-Santa Barbara-B 1-5 544.44 214 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 820.96 -276.55 -0.34
200 9 California-San Diego-C 2-15 371.12 226 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 709.47 -338.39 -0.48
201 4 Arizona-B 0-6 355.99 202 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 829.8 -473.83 -0.57
222 2 Southern California-B 0-3 -228.83 Southwest ? 371.12 -600 -1.62

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.