College Men's USAU Rankings (NE)

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 %
4 Massachusetts NE 1 27-4 2454.1 219 New England Greater New England DI D-I 2173.62 280.48 0.13
8 1 Brown NE 2 23-10 2276.39 251 New England Greater New England DI D-I 2144.28 132.11 0.06
9 1 Vermont NE 3 19-11 2247.89 209 New England Greater New England DI D-I 2164.77 83.12 0.04
18 2 Northeastern NE 4 19-11 2108.05 278 New England Metro Boston DI D-I 1937.35 170.7 0.09
23 2 Tufts 14-16 2024.06 195 New England Metro Boston DI D-I 2065.33 -41.27 -0.02
25 6 Middlebury 16-2 2004.07 347 New England North New England DIII D-III 1627.39 376.68 0.23
26 1 McGill 18-7 1997.12 223 New England Greater New England DI D-I 1903.58 93.54 0.05
55 9 Williams 28-2 1749.57 225 New England South New England DIII D-III 1392.16 357.42 0.26
75 23 Dartmouth 16-15 1612.49 367 New England North New England DIII D-I 1595.01 17.49 0.01
76 14 Massachusetts -B 19-8 1610.5 179 New England Greater New England Dev Dev 1505.33 105.17 0.07
80 6 Bates 24-5 1590.96 274 New England North New England DIII D-III 1342.91 248.06 0.18
108 8 Vermont-B 18-6 1475.03 239 New England Greater New England Dev Dev 1230.89 244.15 0.2
112 Boston College 11-5 1455.9 266 New England Metro Boston DI D-I 1329.66 126.25 0.09
115 12 Bowdoin 17-8 1436.94 221 New England North New England DIII D-III 1301.87 135.07 0.1
138 Tufts-B 17-5 1363.74 279 New England Metro Boston Dev Dev 1086.15 277.6 0.26
141 1 Boston University 8-14 1342.31 274 New England Metro Boston DI D-I 1419.28 -76.97 -0.05
142 1 Bryant 15-10 1340.78 266 New England South New England DIII D-III 1248.94 91.84 0.07
152 2 Harvard 6-22 1311.24 288 New England Metro Boston DI D-I 1420.04 -108.79 -0.08
159 6 Rhode Island 13-14 1288.15 262 New England Greater New England DI D-I 1219.56 68.59 0.06
188 45 Brown-B 7-4 1163.41 97 New England Greater New England Dev Dev 1227.15 -63.74 -0.05
189 7 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 12-15 1159.5 269 New England South New England DIII D-III 1187.27 -27.77 -0.02
201 35 MIT 5-13 1116.71 436 New England Metro Boston DI D-I 1301.93 -185.21 -0.14
210 29 Northeastern-B 11-13 1080.66 183 New England Metro Boston Dev Dev 1137.56 -56.9 -0.05
218 22 Middlebury-B 12-11 1054.71 383 New England North New England DIII D-III 1051.21 3.51 0
225 18 Colby 15-16 1035.69 240 New England North New England DIII D-III 1167.97 -132.28 -0.11
259 34 Brandeis 12-14 914.93 185 New England Metro Boston DIII D-III 970.53 -55.59 -0.06
279 28 Amherst 8-16 835.51 223 New England South New England DIII D-III 879.23 -43.71 -0.05
312 43 Western New England 4-16 673.67 161 New England South New England DIII D-III 900.57 -226.89 -0.25
315 13 Vermont-C 2-3 660.56 314 New England ? 707.63 -47.06 -0.07
317 45 Northeastern-C 7-11 655.82 148 New England Metro Boston Dev Dev 662.24 -6.42 -0.01
329 34 Harvard-B 5-11 600.16 231 New England ? 721.93 -121.76 -0.17
359 44 Bentley 3-7 453.96 172 New England Metro Boston DIII D-III 674.12 -220.16 -0.33
367 54 Dartmouth-B 4-8 417.54 133 New England ? 381.06 36.49 0.1
377 MIT-B 3-5 307.62 New England ? 273.51 34.12 0.12
398 Tufts-C 1-7 84.69 New England ? 432.48 -347.78 -0.8

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.