College Men's USAU Rankings (AC)

2023-24 Season

Data updated through August 25 at 9:00pm EDT

FAQ
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
44 8 Virginia Tech 18-13 1814.41 339 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1731.3 83.11 0.05
50 12 Duke 19-11 1772.52 182 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1665.71 106.81 0.06
57 9 Virginia 13-17 1738.83 345 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1790.69 -51.85 -0.03
59 2 William & Mary 20-17 1727.3 295 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1671.03 56.28 0.03
64 6 Maryland 20-9 1677.89 235 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1564.43 113.46 0.07
65 8 Richmond 18-8 1674.99 311 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 1478.48 196.51 0.13
70 2 James Madison 15-14 1633.19 256 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1644.89 -11.7 -0.01
72 12 Appalachian State 19-16 1628.65 302 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1619.59 9.07 0.01
84 15 Elon 15-4 1576.44 334 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 1286.85 289.59 0.23
87 15 Georgetown 10-11 1554.4 189 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1500.16 54.24 0.04
104 12 Liberty 16-12 1490.72 308 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1507.44 -16.71 -0.01
114 11 Davidson 19-11 1437.27 291 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 1381.32 55.95 0.04
126 4 Towson 16-13 1389.09 272 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1344.21 44.89 0.03
146 27 Clemson 12-9 1318.35 379 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1442.45 -124.09 -0.09
147 28 Maryland-Baltimore County 10-11 1315.87 388 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1417.76 -101.88 -0.07
148 8 Johns Hopkins 13-11 1315.12 296 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1172.65 142.47 0.12
175 23 Delaware 6-13 1221.88 387 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1274.76 -52.87 -0.04
176 26 Navy 8-12 1212.43 178 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 1310.02 -97.59 -0.07
179 5 North Carolina-Asheville 11-8 1199.53 263 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 1158.43 41.1 0.04
196 14 Charleston 8-12 1133.53 357 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1183.87 -50.33 -0.04
202 18 George Mason 5-11 1116.33 240 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1232.23 -115.9 -0.09
204 4 Virginia Commonwealth 9-14 1107.98 323 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1228.28 -120.3 -0.1
209 22 Christopher Newport 14-11 1081.48 369 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 1124.25 -42.76 -0.04
214 21 North Carolina-B 14-11 1073.8 386 Atlantic Coast Southern Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 939.95 133.85 0.14
215 26 East Carolina 10-15 1065.59 204 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1155.33 -89.74 -0.08
217 11 George Washington 7-16 1058.5 255 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1216.31 -157.81 -0.13
226 2 American 6-17 1033.12 301 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1201.36 -168.24 -0.14
251 35 North Carolina State-B 13-10 942.94 183 Atlantic Coast Southern Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 852.28 90.66 0.11
256 69 Salisbury 6-5 919.79 56 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 987.69 -67.89 -0.07
262 6 Virginia Tech-B 10-8 899.28 323 Atlantic Coast Southern Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 882.24 17.04 0.02
307 9 Mary Washington 0-12 683.16 319 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 1216.07 -532.91 -0.44
311 72 Maryland-B 13-2 674.55 0 Atlantic Coast ? 408.49 266.07 0.65
325 29 South Carolina-B 8-21 620.93 252 Atlantic Coast Southern Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 827.12 -206.19 -0.25
336 35 Virginia-B 9-13 569.94 221 Atlantic Coast Southern Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 579.9 -9.96 -0.02
342 34 James Madison-B 6-7 554.86 238 Atlantic Coast ? 585.03 -30.16 -0.05
346 22 Coastal Carolina 0-10 531.02 305 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1009.97 -478.94 -0.47
375 87 Georgetown-B 7-4 309.64 103 Atlantic Coast Colonial Dev Dev 180.57 129.08 0.71
390 42 Delaware-B 6-9 189.93 160 Atlantic Coast Colonial Dev Dev 280.61 -90.67 -0.32
392 64 Richmond-B 3-9 167.68 18 Atlantic Coast ? 358.34 -190.66 -0.53
393 47 George Washington-B 7-10 157.82 114 Atlantic Coast Colonial Dev Dev 318.84 -161.02 -0.5
394 22 William & Mary-B 1-11 153.15 425 Atlantic Coast ? 551.84 -398.69 -0.72
399 37 Johns Hopkins-B 2-3 53.68 103 Atlantic Coast Colonial Dev Dev 168.74 -115.06 -0.68
404 35 American-B 5-14 34.29 217 Atlantic Coast Colonial Dev Dev 194.32 -160.02 -0.82

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.