College Women's USAU Rankings (SW)

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 %
5 1 Stanford SW 1 21-6 2519.88 39 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 2238.06 281.82 0.13
9 California-Santa Barbara SW 2 24-8 2326.41 95 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 2100.81 225.6 0.11
14 1 California-San Diego SW 3 18-13 2142.18 20 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 2051.14 91.05 0.04
17 3 California-Santa Cruz SW 4 14-11 2078.47 102 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 2103.5 -25.03 -0.01
20 4 California-Davis 14-16 1981.44 10 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1986.04 -4.6 0
28 2 California 13-24 1856.51 28 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1974.53 -118.02 -0.06
29 3 UCLA 19-19 1853.18 1 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1778.05 75.14 0.04
30 7 Cal Poly-SLO 19-19 1841.91 129 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1828.75 13.16 0.01
47 8 Southern California 14-17 1636.66 81 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1705.94 -69.28 -0.04
67 4 Nevada-Reno 11-6 1439.92 41 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1379.82 60.11 0.04
69 4 Grand Canyon 9-5 1436.37 12 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1312.63 123.75 0.09
72 9 Santa Clara 10-9 1396.79 61 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1430.01 -33.22 -0.02
76 9 Arizona 10-2 1369.93 64 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1146.14 223.79 0.2
79 6 San Diego State 15-11 1360.25 28 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1491.06 -130.8 -0.09
85 16 California-San Diego-B 14-12 1339.27 83 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1365.93 -26.66 -0.02
88 10 California-Irvine 10-11 1309.28 56 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1402.95 -93.66 -0.07
97 Stanford-B 3-3 1235.17 675 Southwest ? 1171.18 64 0.05
119 36 Northern Arizona 3-6 1087.3 243 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1251.26 -163.96 -0.13
131 13 Occidental 6-5 1014.86 6 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 1036.98 -22.12 -0.02
135 11 Claremont 4-11 978.82 9 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 1092.91 -114.09 -0.1
136 20 Arizona State 3-10 955.01 79 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1225.48 -270.47 -0.22
137 1 California-B 8-13 947.01 51 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1111.27 -164.26 -0.15
148 18 Cal Poly-SLO-B 3-9 881.05 45 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1104.28 -223.22 -0.2
184 25 California-Davis-B 4-11 596.28 82 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 689.04 -92.76 -0.13
186 4 UCLA-B 2-8 585.49 149 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 768.25 -182.76 -0.24
198 21 Arizona-B 0-6 465.61 11 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1038.56 -572.94 -0.55
238 23 California-San Diego-C 0-7 17.59 0 Southwest SoCal DI Dev 593.81 -576.22 -0.97

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.