College Women's USAU Rankings (AC)

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 %
6 2 North Carolina AC 1 34-3 2499.4 123 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 2138.88 360.52 0.17
36 21 William & Mary 13-8 1759.89 215 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1564.77 195.12 0.12
38 15 American 18-2 1723.68 139 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1353.76 369.92 0.27
41 3 South Carolina 16-10 1698.94 64 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1562.57 136.38 0.09
50 9 Georgetown 21-7 1601.27 82 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1375.8 225.47 0.16
51 12 Virginia 15-19 1577.69 161 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1609.8 -32.11 -0.02
56 30 North Carolina State 13-10 1543.77 385 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1458.57 85.19 0.06
62 32 Duke 18-12 1484.05 216 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1446.75 37.31 0.03
65 5 James Madison 11-12 1462.49 43 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1424.66 37.83 0.03
89 1 Virginia Tech 12-15 1306.92 10 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1443.04 -136.12 -0.09
98 14 Maryland 10-12 1234.7 167 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1264.24 -29.54 -0.02
103 53 Clemson 8-13 1199.73 477 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1333.78 -134.05 -0.1
104 7 Appalachian State 8-13 1196.7 24 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1409.34 -212.63 -0.15
114 15 Richmond 12-5 1126.29 180 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 989.5 136.8 0.14
120 13 Charleston 11-12 1082.15 165 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1135.28 -53.13 -0.05
123 21 East Carolina 11-9 1073.86 99 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 977.98 95.87 0.1
125 5 Johns Hopkins 12-10 1062.17 54 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1090.2 -28.03 -0.03
138 15 Liberty 7-20 946.76 32 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1249.38 -302.61 -0.24
151 1 North Carolina-B 8-10 867.95 75 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 782.21 85.79 0.11
152 Delaware 5-6 865.51 86 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 777.71 87.8 0.11
156 5 George Washington 11-9 840.57 49 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 834.92 5.65 0.01
163 19 Catholic 8-10 812.68 36 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 881.94 -69.26 -0.08
183 21 South Carolina-B 2-9 606.54 34 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 850.26 -243.72 -0.29
188 21 Wake Forest 5-12 566.45 8 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 628.58 -62.13 -0.1
204 13 Elon 1-9 407.21 60 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 843 -435.78 -0.52
217 10 Georgetown-B 3-8 292.68 183 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 469.46 -176.79 -0.38
219 1 William & Mary-B 4-7 283.01 395 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 313.12 -30.11 -0.1
229 48 Virginia-B 1-14 159.59 302 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 489.09 -329.49 -0.67
240 16 American-B 2-9 -27.07 385 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 302.46 -329.53 -1.09

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.