College Men's USAU Rankings (GL)

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 %
11 30 Davenport 15-1 1980.95 377 Great Lakes Great Lakes DIII D-III 1486.12 494.83 0.33
35 8 Chicago GL 1 11-8 1654.33 97 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 1674.33 -20 -0.01
36 1 Michigan 7-6 1652.78 13 Great Lakes Michigan DI D-I 1751.54 -98.76 -0.06
51 21 Purdue 11-9 1555.86 185 Great Lakes East Plains DI D-I 1498.15 57.71 0.04
57 7 Illinois 13-6 1515.42 44 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 1417.61 97.8 0.07
60 9 Michigan State 12-5 1486.35 88 Great Lakes Michigan DI D-I 1285.27 201.08 0.16
63 42 Notre Dame 10-10 1459.46 277 Great Lakes East Plains DI D-I 1408.57 50.89 0.04
67 10 Indiana 12-8 1443.25 51 Great Lakes East Plains DI D-I 1449.85 -6.6 0
72 18 Southern Illinois-Edwardsville 14-6 1396.61 146 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 1234.41 162.2 0.13
141 22 Northwestern 4-7 1072.86 46 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 1249.42 -176.56 -0.14
142 51 Grand Valley 10-4 1066.48 268 Great Lakes Michigan DI D-I 889.3 177.18 0.2
147 34 Butler 8-4 1054.95 85 Great Lakes East Plains DIII D-III 987.41 67.54 0.07
150 7 Kentucky 7-5 1052.26 91 Great Lakes East Plains DI D-I 1098.59 -46.34 -0.04
212 39 Eastern Michigan 7-4 750.33 246 Great Lakes Michigan DI D-I 664.01 86.31 0.13
241 23 Michigan-B 5-11 642.3 180 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 758.92 -116.62 -0.15
250 37 Illinois State 6-13 612.58 59 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 872.88 -260.3 -0.3
253 7 DePaul 4-6 588.06 67 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 668.39 -80.34 -0.12
256 13 Illinois-B 8-12 580.53 41 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 637.59 -57.06 -0.09
271 14 Grace 4-5 520.86 34 Great Lakes D-III 532.94 -12.09 -0.02
288 67 Michigan State-B 6-4 421.05 214 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 428.23 -7.18 -0.02
292 36 Western Michigan 3-7 406.21 83 Great Lakes Michigan DI D-I 662.02 -255.81 -0.39
295 43 Loyola-Chicago 5-6 398.54 104 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 535.25 -136.71 -0.26
303 10 Ball State 8-10 364.79 149 Great Lakes East Plains DI D-I 440.23 -75.44 -0.17
329 7 Knox 2-7 238.05 75 Great Lakes Illinois DIII D-III 393.63 -155.58 -0.4
337 72 Purdue-B 3-7 185.29 273 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 318.96 -133.67 -0.42
354 38 Illinois-Chicago 2-4 61.68 130 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 193.4 -131.71 -0.68
355 28 Rose-Hulman 3-9 53.18 66 Great Lakes D-III 279.5 -226.32 -0.81
377 Notre Dame-B 1-2 -130.78 Great Lakes ? 269.42 -400.19 -1.49
386 Illinois-C 0-3 -337.42 Great Lakes ? 31.56 -368.98 -11.69

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.