College Men's USAU Rankings

2024-25 Season

Data updated through March 31 at 3:45pm EDT

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Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
91 4 Cal Poly-SLO-B 8-5 1290.22 24 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1160.02 130.2 0.11
137 2 California-Santa Cruz-B 11-5 1094.14 39 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 842.54 251.59 0.3
208 7 UCLA-B 7-9 765.3 107 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 769.48 -4.18 -0.01
262 18 California-B 7-17 558.86 22 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 799.41 -240.55 -0.3
264 Southern California-B 4-3 556.09 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 622.59 -66.49 -0.11
277 8 Grand Canyon-B 2-4 473.09 26 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 606.94 -133.85 -0.22
280 75 California-Santa Barbara-B 2-9 464.59 264 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 781.38 -316.79 -0.41
332 41 San Diego State-B 1-9 223.83 106 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 409.28 -185.45 -0.45
339 45 California-San Diego-B 3-9 183.49 134 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 411.43 -227.94 -0.55
376 32 Arizona State-B 0-5 -126.91 51 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 473.09 -600 -1.27

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.