College Women's USAU Rankings (NC)

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 %
2 Carleton College NC 1 14-2 2998.57 3 North Central Western North Central DI D-I 2640.44 358.15 0.14
24 12 Minnesota 7-5 2134.28 210 North Central Western North Central DI D-I 2124.05 10.25 0
30 7 Wisconsin 8-10 2022.97 99 North Central Lake Superior DI D-I 2083.95 -60.96 -0.03
35 6 Carleton College-Eclipse 10-3 1951.89 23 North Central North Central DIII D-III 1693.57 258.32 0.15
66 15 St Olaf 9-9 1623.78 81 North Central North Central DIII D-III 1612.62 11.17 0.01
84 32 Macalester 9-5 1432.7 256 North Central North Central DIII D-III 1390.65 42.06 0.03
94 1 Wisconsin-Eau Claire 9-4 1343.8 29 North Central Lake Superior DI D-I 1242.68 101.15 0.08
96 2 Michigan Tech 8-5 1336.29 28 North Central North Central DIII D-III 1333.38 2.93 0
97 14 Iowa State 13-6 1329.44 39 North Central Western North Central DI D-I 1174.51 154.96 0.13
129 24 Winona State 12-7 1098.99 133 North Central North Central DIII D-III 939.34 159.57 0.17
148 20 Wisconsin-La Crosse 4-7 978.08 90 North Central Lake Superior DI D-I 962.67 15.28 0.02
152 71 Iowa 7-5 964.96 424 North Central Western North Central DI D-I 1032.98 -67.97 -0.07
187 25 St Olaf-B 2-10 668.07 123 North Central North Central DIII D-III 980.62 -312.51 -0.32
219 22 Wisconsin-B 0-5 415 44 North Central Lake Superior DI Dev 813.7 -398.69 -0.49

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.