College Men's USAU Rankings

2023-24 Season

Data updated through May 6 at 11:30pm EST (roster game invalidations not accounted for)

FAQ
Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
7 1 Oregon NW 1 35-4 2330.08 221 Northwest Cascadia DI D-I 2025.35 304.73 0.15
19 1 Oregon State 23-10 2098.46 229 Northwest Cascadia DI D-I 1997.8 100.67 0.05
21 3 British Columbia 23-11 2049.89 249 Northwest Cascadia DI D-I 1917.29 132.61 0.07
22 Washington 21-14 2033.49 214 Northwest Cascadia DI D-I 1985.14 48.36 0.02
40 1 Victoria 10-21 1857.48 272 Northwest Cascadia DI D-I 1949.19 -91.7 -0.05
66 3 Western Washington 14-17 1673.44 251 Northwest Cascadia DI D-I 1868.57 -195.12 -0.1
155 31 Washington-B 11-10 1300 435 Northwest Cascadia DI Dev 1417.95 -117.94 -0.08
355 16 Portland State 3-18 491.18 386 Northwest Cascadia DI D-I 745.69 -254.51 -0.34
361 5 Oregon State-B 3-18 440.58 449 Northwest Cascadia DI Dev 637.62 -197.05 -0.31

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.