College Men's USAU Rankings (SW)

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 %
6 Cal Poly-SLO SW 1 21-6 2127.62 18 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1891.9 235.71 0.12
9 California-Santa Cruz SW 2 17-8 2021.18 0 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1816.22 204.96 0.11
14 2 California SW 3 17-11 1969.23 5 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1854.61 114.62 0.06
33 California-Santa Barbara 9-17 1660.93 5 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1719.58 -58.65 -0.03
41 3 California-San Diego 8-16 1621.47 4 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1765.33 -143.86 -0.08
42 6 Stanford 17-15 1617.36 27 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1642.64 -25.27 -0.02
55 2 UCLA 9-13 1535.24 5 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1662.23 -126.99 -0.08
58 3 Grand Canyon 11-1 1500.66 8 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1192.65 308.01 0.26
85 26 Southern California 14-9 1317.15 140 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1256.37 60.79 0.05
91 4 Cal Poly-SLO-B 8-5 1290.22 24 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1160.02 130.2 0.11
92 15 Cal Poly-CCWR 4-1 1284.01 48 Southwest SoCal DI Dev 829.01 455 0.55
95 37 Claremont 8-4 1275.64 217 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 1150.34 125.31 0.11
106 4 San Diego State 17-7 1230.08 42 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1069.55 160.53 0.15
111 6 San Jose State 15-7 1206.71 86 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1049.72 156.99 0.15
114 16 California-Irvine 5-6 1197.3 10 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1196.85 0.44 0
129 9 Arizona State 4-8 1124.63 8 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1188.43 -63.8 -0.05
137 2 California-Santa Cruz-B 11-5 1094.14 39 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 842.54 251.59 0.3
140 24 Santa Clara 4-7 1076.39 54 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1369.3 -292.9 -0.21
173 11 California-Davis 1-12 945.35 6 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1365.81 -420.46 -0.31
175 3 Cal Poly-Humboldt 10-7 936.36 64 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 865.78 70.58 0.08
181 7 Arizona 11-6 904.94 26 Southwest Desert DI D-I 841.76 63.18 0.08
186 10 Occidental 6-6 875.91 2 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 850.35 25.57 0.03
191 22 Cal Poly-Pomona 4-7 855.68 52 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 939.07 -83.39 -0.09
208 7 UCLA-B 7-9 765.3 107 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 769.48 -4.18 -0.01
215 6 Nevada-Reno 7-4 744.04 28 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 640.19 103.84 0.16
238 13 Loyola Marymount 3-8 649.5 32 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 850.95 -201.45 -0.24
248 17 Santa Clara-B 1-2 618.74 16 Southwest ? 706.48 -87.74 -0.12
262 18 California-B 7-17 558.86 22 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 799.41 -240.55 -0.3
263 31 Northern Arizona 4-7 557.55 40 Southwest Desert DI D-I 650.92 -93.36 -0.14
264 Southern California-B 4-3 556.09 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 622.59 -66.49 -0.11
266 17 Chico State 1-9 547.51 35 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 816.5 -268.99 -0.33
277 8 Grand Canyon-B 2-4 473.09 26 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 606.94 -133.85 -0.22
280 75 California-Santa Barbara-B 2-9 464.59 264 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 781.38 -316.79 -0.41
304 20 Cal State-Long Beach 1-9 362.79 2 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 778.34 -415.55 -0.53
316 14 Stanford-B 0-5 287.12 7 Southwest NorCal Dev Dev 644.44 -357.32 -0.55
332 41 San Diego State-B 1-9 223.83 106 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 409.28 -185.45 -0.45
339 45 California-San Diego-B 3-9 183.49 134 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 411.43 -227.94 -0.55
353 29 Cal Poly-SLO-C 0-5 82.85 63 Southwest Southern Southwest Dev Dev 626.88 -544.02 -0.87
376 32 Arizona State-B 0-5 -126.91 51 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 473.09 -600 -1.27

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.