College Men's USAU Rankings (GL)

2024-25 Season

Data updated through May 4 at 8:45pm EDT (some scores likely missing)

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Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
15 Davenport 25-1 2041.09 19 Great Lakes Great Lakes DIII D-III 1530.89 510.2 0.33
26 Michigan GL 1 17-6 1903.48 24 Great Lakes Michigan DI D-I 1783.41 120.08 0.07
49 Chicago 19-10 1729.32 19 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 1652.6 76.75 0.05
53 1 Purdue 18-13 1692.88 21 Great Lakes East Plains DI D-I 1526.56 166.34 0.11
56 Indiana 20-9 1659.35 20 Great Lakes East Plains DI D-I 1560.37 98.98 0.06
59 1 Illinois 22-9 1650.19 23 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 1493.1 157.11 0.11
61 Michigan State 22-8 1636.07 23 Great Lakes Michigan DI D-I 1482.77 153.3 0.1
78 1 Notre Dame 15-14 1554.57 17 Great Lakes East Plains DI D-I 1506.36 48.24 0.03
95 2 Southern Illinois-Edwardsville 22-12 1470.96 17 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 1372.83 98.18 0.07
122 1 Northwestern 10-14 1344.78 19 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 1422.09 -77.31 -0.05
127 2 Butler 17-9 1335.19 16 Great Lakes East Plains DIII D-III 1168.85 166.36 0.14
153 Kentucky 12-11 1248.49 17 Great Lakes East Plains DI D-I 1301.84 -53.34 -0.04
157 9 Grand Valley 14-13 1232.58 47 Great Lakes Michigan DI D-I 1229.11 3.54 0
203 1 Eastern Michigan 9-8 1043.18 16 Great Lakes Michigan DI D-I 1012.33 30.88 0.03
221 6 Michigan-B 12-16 979.37 17 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 1078.78 -99.8 -0.09
236 2 Illinois State 11-20 908.05 16 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 1114.9 -206.8 -0.19
242 Grace 9-12 896.1 14 Great Lakes D-III 850.1 46.04 0.05
257 1 Illinois-B 14-17 845.74 15 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 882.36 -36.7 -0.04
258 1 DePaul 4-11 840.77 16 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 1092.07 -251.25 -0.23
268 Michigan State-B 9-6 799.33 9 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 720.98 78.54 0.11
294 2 Ball State 8-14 714.61 16 Great Lakes East Plains DI D-I 881.31 -166.53 -0.19
297 1 Loyola-Chicago 8-15 701.18 16 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 843.71 -142.45 -0.17
298 1 Knox 6-10 696.55 14 Great Lakes Illinois DIII D-III 674.75 21.01 0.03
304 2 Western Michigan 3-13 665.74 15 Great Lakes Michigan DI D-I 999.88 -334.14 -0.33
312 4 Illinois-Chicago 3-9 630.93 16 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 724.81 -93.89 -0.13
340 2 Rose-Hulman 5-19 529.44 13 Great Lakes D-III 815.15 -285.66 -0.35
345 2 Chicago-B 2-3 492.07 12 Great Lakes ? 641.92 -152.42 -0.24
353 2 Purdue-B 6-10 420.2 9 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 529.99 -108.2 -0.2
358 4 Indiana-B 3-3 403.06 6 Great Lakes ? 410.66 -10.97 -0.03
372 1 Northwestern-B 1-3 298.6 12 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 531.88 -232.04 -0.44
403 Notre Dame-B 2-8 -9.61 10 Great Lakes ? 244.56 -256.61 -1.05
410 Illinois-C 1-7 -191.96 10 Great Lakes ? 169.91 -361.91 -2.13

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.