D-III College Women's USAU Rankings

2022-23 Season

Data updated through April 3 at 2:00pm EDT

AC 1 · GL 1 · ME 1 · NE 4 · NC 3 · NW 2 · OV 1 · SC 1 · SE 1 · SW 1

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Division I // Division III
Pending USAU roster checks. Also, if BYU doesn't play Conferences the bid goes to the next team (currently WWU)
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
1 [16] 2 Middlebury NE 1 12-0 1836.02 128 New England North New England DIII D-III 1410.03 425.99 0.3
2 [22] 3 Wellesley NE 2 12-1 1747.61 92 New England Metro Boston DIII D-III 1347.57 400.03 0.3
3 [24] 1 Carleton College-Eclipse NC 1 15-6 1733.09 141 North Central North Central DIII D-III 1734.69 -1.61 0
4 [34] 1 Portland NW 1 13-1 1632.69 141 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1264.32 368.37 0.29
5 [43] Whitman NW 2 9-1 1499.25 141 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1190.62 308.62 0.26
6 [58] 2 Williams NE 3 7-5 1325.07 109 New England South New England DIII D-III 1312.86 12.21 0.01
7 [63] 10 Haverford/Bryn Mawr OV 1 14-4 1277.15 233 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 985.48 291.67 0.3
8 [67] 13 Mount Holyoke NE 4 10-4 1267.65 27 New England South New England DIII D-III 1104.66 162.99 0.15
9 [68] 2 Winona State NC 2 15-2 1267.17 135 North Central North Central DIII D-III 887.71 379.46 0.43
10 [73] 2 St. Olaf NC 3 16-4 1227.23 95 North Central North Central DIII D-III 1037.31 189.92 0.18
11 [76] 8 Bates 7-5 1182.14 70 New England North New England DIII D-III 1072.91 109.24 0.1
12 [78] 2 Lewis & Clark 7-5 1178.75 142 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1035.96 142.79 0.14
13 [83] 1 Trinity SC 1 13-4 1117.44 152 South Central South Central DIII D-III 907.24 210.19 0.23
14 [85] 10 Catholic AC 1 4-6 1105.15 84 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 1138.93 -33.78 -0.03
15 [90] Claremont SW 1 11-7 1064.32 140 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 972.75 91.56 0.09
16 [92] 2 Seattle 3-2 1054.58 142 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 951.93 102.64 0.11
17 [101] 3 Occidental 12-5 976.08 132 Southwest SoCal DI D-III 765.11 210.97 0.28
18 [102] 11 Dartmouth 3-2 973.98 230 New England North New England DIII D-III 892.89 81.09 0.09
19 [105] 2 Michigan Tech 7-4 960.08 121 North Central North Central DIII D-III 720.36 239.72 0.33
20 [111] 13 Lehigh 9-9 919.07 247 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 1037.63 -118.55 -0.11
21 [112] 3 Rice 8-6 907.87 162 South Central South Central DIII D-III 800.44 107.44 0.13
22 [113] 12 Ithaca ME 1 6-6 906.09 218 Metro East Western NY DIII D-III 945.45 -39.36 -0.04
23 [114] 2 Union (Tennessee) SE 1 8-9 899.78 135 Southeast Southeast DIII D-III 1018.63 -118.85 -0.12
24 [116] 3 Cedarville 5-5 890.83 133 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 901.78 -10.96 -0.01
25 [120] 10 Brandeis 6-6 840.29 44 New England Metro Boston DIII D-III 805.54 34.75 0.04
26 [126] 4 Puget Sound 2-3 807.8 142 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 850.32 -42.52 -0.05
27 [127] 3 John Brown 2-4 795.4 153 South Central South Central DIII D-III 928.8 -133.4 -0.14
28 [135] 2 Mary Washington 5-8 727.05 118 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 966.87 -239.82 -0.25
29 [139] 18 Wesleyan 4-7 700.23 1 Metro East Eastern Metro East DIII D-III 908.52 -208.29 -0.23
30 [140] 9 Rochester 5-2 680.92 198 Metro East Western NY DIII D-III 430.13 250.79 0.58
31 [142] 2 Macalester 4-8 673.7 139 North Central North Central DIII D-III 862.21 -188.5 -0.22
32 [146] 14 SUNY-Geneseo 1-10 651.21 224 Metro East Western NY DIII D-III 929.49 -278.28 -0.3
33 [152] Grinnell 2-4 595.69 171 North Central North Central DIII D-III 486.04 109.65 0.23
34 [155] 1 Connecticut College 2-3 557.68 186 Metro East Eastern Metro East DIII D-III 615.07 -57.39 -0.09
35 [156] 1 Luther 1-5 556.18 180 North Central North Central DIII D-III 700.7 -144.52 -0.21
36 [157] 17 Knox GL 1 6-4 551.44 288 Great Lakes Great Lakes DIII D-III 589.71 -38.27 -0.06
37 [159] Franciscan 2-4 514.2 141 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 601.7 -87.5 -0.15
38 [161] 10 Skidmore 4-5 501.69 266 Metro East Eastern Metro East DIII D-III 505.88 -4.18 -0.01
39 [164] 1 Colorado Mines 3-8 487.48 143 South Central South Central DIII D-III 689.17 -201.69 -0.29
40 [165] 3 Truman State 4-9 482.63 150 South Central South Central DIII D-III 643.41 -160.77 -0.25
41 [169] 9 Colby 2-3 431.73 57 New England North New England DIII D-III 530.19 -98.46 -0.19
42 [173] 6 Swarthmore 1-4 399.94 187 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 484.51 -84.57 -0.17
43 [177] 9 Bowdoin 0-6 376.84 14 New England North New England DIII D-III 780.85 -404.01 -0.52
[-] St Benedict 1-3 317.46 141 North Central North Central DIII D-III 520.28 -202.82 -0.39
44 [185] 3 Messiah 1-11 262.64 162 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 584.7 -322.06 -0.55
45 [186] 2 Richmond 2-9 261.54 144 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 489.72 -228.18 -0.47
46 [187] Dickinson 3-6 253.22 138 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 504.16 -250.94 -0.5
47 [191] 1 Oberlin 4-3 227.18 133 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 260.09 -32.91 -0.13
48 [192] 2 Pacific Lutheran 1-10 224.82 144 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 539.11 -314.28 -0.58
49 [200] 2 College of New Jersey 2-7 87.01 98 Metro East Eastern Metro East DIII D-III 365.1 -278.1 -0.76
50 [211] 2 Florida Tech 3-9 -87.13 203 Southeast Southeast DIII D-III 115.76 -202.9 -1.75
51 [216] 1 Elon 0-12 -247.03 150 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 261.42 -508.45 -1.94
[-] North Park 0-4 -342.23 267 Great Lakes Great Lakes DIII D-III -43.48 -298.75 6.87

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.