College Women's USAU Rankings (SW)

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 %
10 1 California-San Diego SW 1 14-12 2495.97 2 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 2468.93 27.06 0.01
12 3 California-Santa Cruz SW 2 12-8 2477.11 25 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 2344.62 132.51 0.06
13 Stanford SW 3 13-11 2475.08 1 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 2455.13 19.97 0.01
14 Cal Poly-SLO SW 4 17-9 2443.09 3 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 2473.07 -29.96 -0.01
16 1 California-Davis SW 5 9-11 2306.69 10 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 2280.35 26.36 0.01
17 1 California-Santa Barbara SW 6 11-8 2303.86 20 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 2291.1 12.78 0.01
25 2 UCLA 14-16 2133.45 10 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 2270.12 -136.65 -0.06
39 California 11-9 1867.09 18 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1937.34 -70.24 -0.04
41 Southern California 6-12 1842.16 10 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 2127.47 -285.29 -0.13
63 10 California-Irvine 18-5 1642.75 30 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1273.11 369.61 0.29
68 10 Santa Clara 10-6 1587.55 62 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1465.03 122.53 0.08
85 2 Grand Canyon 8-2 1431.34 78 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1127.34 303.98 0.27
89 12 San Diego State 13-4 1395.48 31 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1239.02 156.43 0.13
104 3 California-San Diego-B 10-9 1266.85 1 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1132.93 133.86 0.12
115 9 Arizona State 14-9 1196.04 33 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1134.3 61.71 0.05
122 3 Claremont 9-10 1150.79 72 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 1229.61 -78.86 -0.06
126 5 Claremont-B 1-2 1114.02 10 Southwest ? 1227.26 -113.31 -0.09
130 13 Northern Arizona 3-7 1089.04 62 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1319.59 -230.57 -0.17
133 18 Cal Poly-SLO-B 3-7 1060.47 113 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1207.36 -146.9 -0.12
135 12 Stanford-B 1-5 1047.99 66 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1377.87 -329.86 -0.24
137 17 California-B 5-6 1031.69 92 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1043.09 -11.38 -0.01
154 42 Occidental 5-4 952.23 237 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 936.25 15.98 0.02
162 13 Arizona 6-12 854.59 10 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1027.2 -172.64 -0.17
166 12 UCLA-B 7-10 837.04 2 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 971.59 -134.63 -0.14
169 25 California-Davis-B 1-5 807.48 125 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1012.43 -204.94 -0.2
171 29 Nevada-Reno 4-9 804.15 140 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1021.04 -216.88 -0.21
194 8 Cal State-Long Beach 5-12 595.6 13 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 665.88 -70.38 -0.11
199 6 California-Santa Barbara-B 1-5 572.3 26 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 848.77 -276.55 -0.33
206 22 Cal Poly-Humboldt 1-10 516.85 83 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 890.96 -374.09 -0.42
220 17 California-San Diego-C 2-15 384.47 11 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 722.77 -338.39 -0.47
224 19 Arizona-B 0-6 346 12 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 819.8 -473.83 -0.58
243 17 Southern California-B 0-3 -215.4 11 Southwest ? 384.47 -600 -1.56

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.