College Men's USAU Rankings

2023-24 Season

Data updated through August 25 at 9:00pm EDT

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Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
2 1 North Carolina AC 1 34-2 2486.33 198 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 2055.8 430.54 0.21
14 1 North Carolina State AC 2 26-11 2171.47 225 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 2002.05 169.43 0.08
27 1 North Carolina-Wilmington 22-16 1995.28 261 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1957.4 37.89 0.02
31 5 North Carolina-Charlotte 19-19 1920.89 303 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1978.98 -58.08 -0.03
42 13 South Carolina 24-13 1846.77 163 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1827.41 19.36 0.01
50 12 Duke 19-11 1772.52 182 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1665.71 106.81 0.06
72 12 Appalachian State 19-16 1628.65 302 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1619.59 9.07 0.01
146 27 Clemson 12-9 1318.35 379 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1442.45 -124.09 -0.09
196 14 Charleston 8-12 1133.53 357 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1183.87 -50.33 -0.04
215 26 East Carolina 10-15 1065.59 204 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1155.33 -89.74 -0.08
346 22 Coastal Carolina 0-10 531.02 305 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1009.97 -478.94 -0.47

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.