D-III College Women's USAU Rankings

2024-25 Season

Data updated through April 28 at 11:45pm EDT

AC 1 · GL 1 · ME 2 · NE 2 · NC 2 · NW 3 · OV 2 · SC 1 · SE 1 · SW 1

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Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
1 [36] 4 Haverford/Bryn Mawr OV 1 22-7 1618.48 225 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 1404.25 214.22 0.15
2 [39] 8 Wesleyan ME 1 20-3 1586.83 234 Metro East Eastern Metro East DIII D-III 1400.27 186.57 0.13
3 [42] 2 Whitman NW 1 16-2 1568.16 263 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1161.61 406.55 0.35
4 [46] 11 Carleton College-Eclipse NC 1 14-4 1545.04 407 North Central North Central DIII D-III 1303.96 241.09 0.18
5 [49] 7 Kenyon OV 2 20-1 1498.7 339 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 1095.33 403.4 0.37
6 [51] 1 Middlebury NE 1 20-2 1481.55 321 New England North New England DIII D-III 1100.26 381.3 0.35
7 [55] 11 St Olaf NC 2 14-9 1441.89 182 North Central North Central DIII D-III 1329.72 112.23 0.08
8 [56] 13 Rochester ME 2 19-4 1421.56 165 Metro East Western NY DIII D-III 1119.78 301.79 0.27
9 [58] 1 Davenport GL 1 15-1 1403.44 256 Great Lakes Great Lakes DIII D-III 974.68 428.77 0.44
10 [66] 5 Lewis & Clark NW 2 12-5 1314.25 342 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1184.1 130.16 0.11
11 [72] 1 Union (Tennessee) SE 1 11-1 1271.09 251 Southeast Southeast DIII D-III 854.16 417.1 0.49
12 [73] 1 Colorado College SC 1 17-7 1268.82 287 South Central South Central DIII D-III 1114.3 154.72 0.14
13 [76] 11 Portland NW 3 13-11 1223.97 403 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1251.6 -27.62 -0.02
14 [77] 1 Mount Holyoke NE 2 12-5 1222.52 269 New England South New England DIII D-III 1080.14 142.39 0.13
15 [85] 7 Richmond AC 1 12-5 1148.6 208 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 1071.61 76.97 0.07
16 [86] 5 Wellesley 19-7 1143.71 323 New England Metro Boston DIII D-III 921.8 221.93 0.24
17 [88] 8 Michigan Tech 12-7 1135.42 201 North Central North Central DIII D-III 1091.81 43.7 0.04
18 [89] 4 Rice 12-6 1131.84 214 South Central South Central DIII D-III 1040.79 91.36 0.09
19 [90] 5 Williams 20-8 1118.59 220 New England South New England DIII D-III 950.35 168.25 0.18
20 [96] 6 Ithaca 14-10 1093.91 282 Metro East Western NY DIII D-III 1067.14 26.78 0.03
21 [98] 4 Lehigh 15-17 1090.18 186 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 1074.01 16.15 0.02
22 [102] 18 Macalester 13-7 1055.12 378 North Central North Central DIII D-III 982.2 73.01 0.07
23 [113] 8 Puget Sound 8-9 969.45 202 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1098.55 -129.09 -0.12
24 [116] 2 Cedarville 13-8 947.19 264 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 876.15 71.02 0.08
25 [119] 2 Swarthmore 13-11 939.18 256 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 950.07 -10.9 -0.01
26 [127] 14 Georgia College 7-8 856.5 156 Southeast Southeast DIII D-III 908.14 -51.59 -0.06
27 [129] Winona State 14-11 845.74 253 North Central North Central DIII D-III 830.35 15.08 0.02
28 [130] 29 Butler 7-5 845.61 467 Great Lakes Great Lakes DIII D-III 854.07 -8.3 -0.01
29 [133] 11 Claremont SW 1 11-10 823.43 327 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 815.75 7.68 0.01
30 [136] Trinity 10-12 806.8 229 South Central South Central DIII D-III 886.55 -80.42 -0.09
31 [144] 10 Catholic 6-11 734.05 325 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 739.3 -5.3 -0.01
32 [146] 11 Knox 8-10 726.4 209 Great Lakes Great Lakes DIII D-III 686.93 39.37 0.06
33 [149] 24 Dartmouth 6-9 708.35 412 New England North New England DIII D-III 774.69 -66.33 -0.09
34 [150] 1 Davidson 11-8 704.69 266 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 686.39 18.27 0.03
35 [155] 31 Xavier 10-11 677.89 457 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 703.6 -25.68 -0.04
36 [156] 14 Berry 8-9 677.7 324 Southeast Southeast DIII D-III 830.92 -153.22 -0.18
37 [158] 21 Bates 7-13 671.71 83 New England North New England DIII D-III 802.55 -130.83 -0.16
38 [162] 5 Colby 4-10 659.76 177 New England North New England DIII D-III 749.71 -89.93 -0.12
39 [163] 20 SUNY-Geneseo 8-17 646.2 354 Metro East Western NY DIII D-III 768.74 -122.54 -0.16
40 [168] 5 Pacific Lutheran 5-10 619.92 174 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 732.87 -112.95 -0.15
41 [182] 28 Occidental 5-6 534.79 417 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 682.59 -147.8 -0.22
42 [184] 1 Skidmore 10-12 521.35 168 Metro East Eastern Metro East DIII D-III 572.22 -50.88 -0.09
43 [193] 16 Colorado Mines 4-5 473.99 288 South Central South Central DIII D-III 562.49 -87.58 -0.16
44 [194] 7 St Olaf-B 4-13 471.63 196 North Central North Central DIII D-III 609.81 -138.2 -0.23
45 [197] 14 Harding 3-4 457.52 270 South Central Ozarks DIII D-III 469.01 -12.8 -0.03
46 [199] 34 Oberlin 1-16 441.28 396 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 790.35 -349.04 -0.44
47 [200] 19 Truman State 7-17 436.94 303 South Central South Central DIII D-III 605.41 -168.55 -0.28
48 [202] Messiah 1-3 396.88 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 730.8 -333.95 -0.46
49 [225] 12 Dickinson 3-13 205.4 271 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 451.26 -245.92 -0.54
50 [229] 8 Elon 1-9 165.37 38 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 429.04 -263.7 -0.61
51 [240] 14 Connecticut College 0-9 75.33 263 Metro East Eastern Metro East DIII D-III 444.05 -368.72 -0.83
52 [250] 16 Lewis & Clark -B 0-6 -24.72 255 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 346.56 -371.27 -1.07
53 [251] 7 Colorado College-B 0-10 -38.44 South Central South Central DIII D-III 481.8 -524.21 -1.09
54 [256] 28 John Brown 0-4 -157.76 460 South Central South Central DIII D-III 436.94 -600 -1.37

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.