College Men's USAU Rankings (OV)

2024-25 Season

Data updated through March 31 at 3:45pm EDT

FAQ
Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
25 1 Penn State OV 1 8-11 1827.38 56 Ohio Valley West Penn DI D-I 1884.14 -56.77 -0.03
28 3 Pittsburgh 8-14 1764.73 11 Ohio Valley West Penn DI D-I 1862.93 -98.2 -0.05
39 28 Cincinnati 11-2 1630.04 228 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 1422.25 207.79 0.15
70 26 Franciscan 10-3 1410.69 180 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 1255.82 154.87 0.12
71 10 Case Western Reserve 11-7 1405.06 41 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 1324.01 81.05 0.06
75 1 Carnegie Mellon 10-8 1371.25 26 Ohio Valley West Penn DI D-I 1390.03 -18.78 -0.01
84 2 Ohio State 8-12 1319.67 51 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 1371.79 -52.12 -0.04
87 28 Temple 8-12 1310.92 179 Ohio Valley East Penn DI D-I 1351.32 -40.4 -0.03
99 4 Oberlin 12-3 1266.1 82 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 1027.28 238.81 0.23
113 13 Lehigh 10-7 1204.24 4 Ohio Valley East Penn DI D-I 1084.71 119.53 0.11
116 8 West Chester 14-5 1192.17 101 Ohio Valley East Penn DI D-I 1040.92 151.25 0.15
131 2 Pittsburgh-B 12-7 1121.3 64 Ohio Valley Ohio Valley Dev Dev 1024.86 96.44 0.09
145 11 Kenyon 8-5 1059.11 4 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 1051.61 7.5 0.01
146 Dayton 8-5 1055.78 48 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 1026.83 28.96 0.03
163 25 Messiah 7-12 981.6 150 Ohio Valley West Penn DIII D-III 1107.87 -126.27 -0.11
164 17 Ohio 14-11 976.87 115 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 888.96 87.91 0.1
171 29 Dickinson 7-12 953.2 75 Ohio Valley West Penn DIII D-III 1090.67 -137.47 -0.13
179 12 Pennsylvania 6-11 911.9 1 Ohio Valley East Penn DI D-I 998.65 -86.75 -0.09
195 5 Miami (Ohio) 10-2 846.65 80 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 545.48 301.17 0.55
200 7 Akron 6-4 813.12 90 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 867.23 -54.11 -0.06
210 2 Kent State 4-6 758.34 78 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 869.4 -111.06 -0.13
217 1 Haverford 11-8 741.57 95 Ohio Valley East Penn DIII D-III 680.3 61.27 0.09
230 23 West Virginia 12-4 685.38 184 Ohio Valley West Penn DI D-I 459.1 226.28 0.49
234 3 Penn State-B 13-7 656.34 77 Ohio Valley Ohio Valley Dev Dev 519.59 136.75 0.26
240 20 Xavier 1-8 644.29 9 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 988.68 -344.38 -0.35
243 30 Toledo 5-6 639.93 238 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 622.07 17.86 0.03
249 26 Cedarville 4-10 612.8 13 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 744 -131.2 -0.18
251 11 Wooster 4-2 604.97 46 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 525.08 79.89 0.15
254 47 Swarthmore 4-2 587.27 285 Ohio Valley East Penn DIII D-III 323.4 263.86 0.82
259 14 Drexel 12-6 578.78 56 Ohio Valley East Penn DI D-I 512.56 66.22 0.13
300 3 Cincinnati -B 3-7 376.98 83 Ohio Valley Ohio Valley Dev Dev 559.01 -182.03 -0.33
315 17 Wright State 4-12 290.74 20 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 546.31 -255.58 -0.47
317 3 Case Western Reserve-B 3-3 277.41 108 Ohio Valley Ohio Valley Dev Dev 380.42 -103.01 -0.27
320 3 Penn State-Behrend 3-3 273.35 90 Ohio Valley West Penn DIII D-III 331.98 -58.64 -0.18
321 39 Pennsylvania Western 5-8 272.07 552 Ohio Valley West Penn DI D-I 384.09 -112.01 -0.29
324 10 Villanova 4-14 260.06 44 Ohio Valley East Penn DI D-I 398.86 -138.8 -0.35
349 17 Lehigh-B 5-6 114.06 42 Ohio Valley East Penn DIII D-III 294.25 -180.19 -0.61
360 11 Dayton-B 2-4 5.95 123 Ohio Valley Ohio Valley Dev Dev 115.5 -109.55 -0.95
372 31 West Chester-B 5-13 -77.42 21 Ohio Valley Ohio Valley Dev Dev 116.51 -193.92 -1.66
375 14 Ohio-B 2-7 -113.99 219 Ohio Valley Ohio Valley Dev Dev 39.06 -153.05 -3.92
391 24 Denison 0-5 -649.72 111 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III -131.76 -517.96 3.93

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.