College Men's USAU Rankings (GL)

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 %
37 5 Michigan GL 1 20-11 1885.75 319 Great Lakes Michigan DI D-I 1778.72 107.03 0.06
39 1 Illinois 25-4 1885.37 306 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 1641.07 244.31 0.15
49 6 Michigan State 18-4 1778.48 313 Great Lakes Michigan DI D-I 1601.49 177 0.11
61 6 Chicago 18-12 1694.33 307 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 1647.02 47.31 0.03
62 14 Purdue 17-13 1689.75 333 Great Lakes East Plains DI D-I 1648.14 41.62 0.03
83 8 Indiana 21-17 1581.32 311 Great Lakes East Plains DI D-I 1552.5 28.82 0.02
96 10 Notre Dame 13-18 1530.99 321 Great Lakes East Plains DI D-I 1595.58 -64.59 -0.04
106 23 Northwestern 16-16 1482.91 147 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 1524.26 -41.34 -0.03
110 8 Davenport 23-6 1467.57 250 Great Lakes Eastern Great Lakes DIII D-III 1108.41 359.23 0.32
118 30 Kentucky 15-7 1415.92 113 Great Lakes East Plains DI D-I 1358.2 57.73 0.04
145 Southern Illinois-Edwardsville 20-12 1331.75 271 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 1266.73 65.03 0.05
151 4 Grace 17-5 1311.63 289 Great Lakes Eastern Great Lakes DIII D-III 993.95 317.67 0.32
222 17 Ball State 17-15 1043.66 238 Great Lakes East Plains DI D-I 997.1 46.55 0.05
232 10 Butler 12-14 1010.21 342 Great Lakes Eastern Great Lakes DIII D-III 971.98 38.32 0.04
254 36 Michigan-B 8-8 928.81 522 Great Lakes ? 823.73 105.09 0.13
263 3 Illinois State 7-10 898.19 340 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 966.62 -68.42 -0.07
280 5 Western Michigan 6-12 828.64 326 Great Lakes Michigan DI D-I 953 -124.35 -0.13
294 11 Knox 10-15 737.81 307 Great Lakes Illinois DIII D-III 836.93 -99.04 -0.12
323 4 Purdue-B 10-18 630.64 368 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 660.3 -29.66 -0.04
357 7 Michigan State-B 6-15 474.64 530 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 657.29 -182.64 -0.28
363 9 Indiana-B 3-9 438.08 428 Great Lakes ? 631.69 -193.61 -0.31
369 33 Illinois-B 6-14 360.32 240 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 465.53 -105.22 -0.23
373 3 Northwestern-B 4-14 332.42 538 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 545.2 -212.78 -0.39
384 31 Notre Dame-B 4-7 258.56 244 Great Lakes ? 493.78 -235.21 -0.48
389 Purdue-C 1-4 196.44 Great Lakes ? 421.77 -225.32 -0.53
395 Chicago-B 1-4 143.1 Great Lakes ? 338.94 -195.82 -0.58

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.