College Women's USAU Rankings (AC)

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 %
9 1 North Carolina AC 1 13-5 2522.64 23 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 2500.23 22.43 0.01
20 1 Virginia 18-6 2268.93 82 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 2134.74 134.21 0.06
32 3 Georgetown 12-7 2007.01 78 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1915.88 91.15 0.05
37 3 American 13-8 1896.84 20 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1875.62 21.23 0.01
38 9 Duke 15-5 1890.8 74 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1818.12 72.69 0.04
48 2 Liberty 13-4 1819.58 79 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1565.19 254.4 0.16
49 23 William & Mary 6-6 1813.92 207 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1821.54 -7.61 0
55 17 Appalachian State 10-7 1699.38 225 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1603.16 96.24 0.06
56 11 Maryland 12-8 1698.67 166 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1625.19 73.48 0.05
57 8 James Madison 7-5 1681.44 128 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1735.74 -54.29 -0.03
62 1 North Carolina State 5-6 1651.53 81 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1752.22 -100.67 -0.06
64 7 South Carolina 5-7 1634.67 27 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1691.17 -56.49 -0.03
92 5 Richmond 6-5 1356.1 72 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 1375.98 -19.89 -0.01
107 20 Virginia Tech 4-7 1253.9 181 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1384 -130.11 -0.09
113 6 George Washington 7-5 1211.98 86 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1229.27 -17.27 -0.01
118 4 Clemson 7-4 1194.37 16 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1125.97 68.51 0.06
134 4 Catholic 3-8 1058.71 77 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 1141.11 -82.41 -0.07
140 22 North Carolina-Wilmington 8-15 1013.23 117 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1132.15 -118.97 -0.11
149 6 Delaware 6-3 975.99 38 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 964.83 11.12 0.01
150 11 North Carolina-B 3-9 974.81 3 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 1111.02 -136.17 -0.12
151 67 Davidson 7-6 970.84 390 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 913.7 56.79 0.06
155 22 Wake Forest 3-3 947.02 79 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 846.08 100.99 0.12
161 8 East Carolina 3-2 855.82 12 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 763.28 92.31 0.12
172 2 George Mason 6-6 803.05 43 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 777.41 25.63 0.03
176 1 Charleston 5-8 774.01 60 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 869.78 -96.08 -0.11
197 9 Towson 3-4 593.74 19 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 688.68 -95.08 -0.14
204 8 William & Mary-B 0-6 530.76 56 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 953.18 -422.52 -0.44
208 25 Georgetown-B 1-5 508.67 101 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 858.91 -350.14 -0.41
210 12 Johns Hopkins 2-6 498.81 51 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 705.32 -206.59 -0.29
215 South Carolina-B 1-5 449.8 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 765.96 -313.04 -0.41
235 18 American-B 1-12 212.98 31 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 656.63 -443.71 -0.68
237 Elon 1-5 203.3 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 359.98 -156.53 -0.43
241 16 Maryland-B 0-3 -101.03 50 Atlantic Coast ? 498.81 -600 -1.2
245 15 Virginia-B 0-6 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev NaN NaN NaN

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.