D-III College Women's USAU Rankings

2023-24 Season

Data updated through March 27 at 8:00am EDT

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

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Division I // Division III
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Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
1 [30] 25 St Olaf NC 1 11-2 1862.64 532 North Central North Central DIII D-III 1465.31 397.32 0.27
2 [40] 3 Union (Tennessee) SE 1 18-2 1708.91 190 Southeast Southeast DIII D-III 1348.62 360.32 0.27
3 [46] 5 Whitman NW 1 6-6 1636.46 244 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1531.34 105.12 0.07
4 [47] 2 Portland NW 2 11-3 1635.94 242 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1352.4 283.54 0.21
5 [50] 2 Carleton College-Eclipse NC 2 15-2 1629.1 231 North Central North Central DIII D-III 1355.27 273.88 0.2
6 [52] Davidson AC 1 4-1 1609.19 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 1329.52 279.71 0.21
7 [53] 26 Haverford/Bryn Mawr OV 1 7-0 1578.49 108 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 1118.76 459.73 0.41
8 [61] 13 Macalester NC 3 5-1 1510.78 344 North Central North Central DIII D-III 1287.16 223.63 0.17
9 [63] 3 Colorado College SC 1 12-6 1490.52 237 South Central South Central DIII D-III 1319.18 171.35 0.13
10 [71] 11 Wellesley NE 1 6-2 1393.39 100 New England Metro Boston DIII D-III 1170.4 222.99 0.19
11 [75] 10 Williams NE 2 9-3 1377.97 119 New England South New England DIII D-III 1173.69 204.3 0.17
12 [80] 4 Franciscan OV 2 4-2 1313.81 218 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 1078.96 234.84 0.22
13 [83] 6 Trinity SC 2 15-5 1297.04 237 South Central South Central DIII D-III 1129.77 167.27 0.15
14 [84] 9 Claremont SW 1 3-7 1286.02 251 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 1601.4 -315.38 -0.2
15 [85] 16 Davenport GL 1 4-1 1278.67 44 Great Lakes Great Lakes DIII D-III 939.43 339.28 0.36
16 [93] 5 Kenyon 4-2 1219.01 219 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 1056.01 163 0.15
17 [94] 27 Lehigh 15-4 1218.69 20 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 977.17 241.52 0.25
18 [100] 9 Lewis & Clark 6-7 1179.73 242 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1255.08 -75.35 -0.06
19 [103] 17 Truman State 6-8 1154.88 330 South Central South Central DIII D-III 1256.61 -101.73 -0.08
20 [104] 8 Rice 9-3 1151.1 239 South Central South Central DIII D-III 1006.46 144.64 0.14
21 [105] 6 Middlebury 6-7 1149.07 150 New England North New England DIII D-III 1151.34 -2.26 0
22 [106] 38 Rochester ME 1 6-2 1144.05 91 Metro East Western NY DIII D-III 1193.1 -49.05 -0.04
23 [109] 8 Puget Sound 5-7 1093.13 240 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1323.5 -230.37 -0.17
24 [111] 21 Richmond 3-2 1069.83 18 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 1237.09 -167.29 -0.14
25 [113] 3 Wesleyan 3-3 1041.92 126 Metro East Eastern Metro East DIII D-III 1100.7 -58.78 -0.05
26 [114] 26 Brandeis 7-4 1037.52 27 New England Metro Boston DIII D-III 906.31 131.21 0.14
27 [118] 45 Dartmouth 5-8 1007.12 164 New England North New England DIII D-III 1120.41 -113.28 -0.1
28 [119] 4 Mount Holyoke 2-4 1006.11 145 New England South New England DIII D-III 1220.82 -214.71 -0.18
29 [120] 11 John Brown 4-6 974.61 275 South Central South Central DIII D-III 1210.17 -235.55 -0.19
30 [122] 30 Cedarville 6-5 969.75 70 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 1035.95 -66.4 -0.06
31 [132] 16 Catholic 6-6 874.96 21 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 885.65 -10.33 -0.01
32 [133] 7 Oberlin 3-3 858.87 225 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 814.18 44.7 0.05
33 [147] 101 Ithaca 5-3 731.94 673 Metro East Western NY DIII D-III 692.71 39.24 0.06
34 [150] 8 Occidental 2-4 719.99 247 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 967.09 -247.1 -0.26
35 [153] 29 SUNY-Geneseo 3-9 674.14 122 Metro East Western NY DIII D-III 882.77 -208.62 -0.24
36 [156] 28 Swarthmore 4-3 653.33 108 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 751.21 -97.88 -0.13
37 [157] 4 Bates 3-2 623.3 126 New England North New England DIII D-III 299.96 323.35 1.08
38 [158] Berry 3-3 623.14 Southeast Southeast DIII D-III 529.48 93.71 0.18
39 [161] 5 Butler 2-5 571.24 225 Great Lakes Great Lakes DIII D-III 743.59 -172.35 -0.23
40 [162] Bentley 1-6 565.39 New England Metro Boston DIII D-III 1165.39 -600 -0.51
41 [163] 6 Georgia College 6-8 505.09 237 Southeast Southeast DIII D-III 456.4 48.69 0.11
42 [166] 7 Colorado Mines 2-6 470.84 248 South Central South Central DIII D-III 643.08 -172.23 -0.27
43 [167] 10 Knox 1-4 466.94 290 Great Lakes Great Lakes DIII D-III 755.41 -288.49 -0.38
44 [174] 26 Skidmore 2-4 422.63 108 Metro East Eastern Metro East DIII D-III 267.5 155.13 0.58
45 [178] 15 Elon 1-5 377.97 15 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 700.6 -322.11 -0.46
46 [183] 1 Air Force 1-4 320.31 252 South Central South Central DIII D-III 491.74 -171.42 -0.35
47 [185] 110 Connecticut College 3-2 277.72 879 Metro East Eastern Metro East DIII D-III 109.99 167.74 1.53
48 [191] 10 Messiah 2-3 203.92 63 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 127.04 76.89 0.61
49 [196] Xavier 1-5 147.49 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 364.76 -217.29 -0.6
50 [203] 18 Dickinson 1-5 -49.14 108 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 307.24 -356.37 -1.16
51 [207] 6 Florida Tech 1-11 -194.98 206 Southeast Southeast DIII D-III 35.29 -230.27 -6.53
52 [215] Clark 0-6 -909.99 New England South New England DIII D-III -309.96 -600 1.94

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.