College Men's USAU Rankings (NC)

2023-24 Season

Data updated through May 6 at 11:30pm EST (roster game invalidations not accounted for)

FAQ
Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
11 Minnesota NC 1 18-10 2239.55 237 North Central Northwoods DI D-I 2116.96 122.6 0.06
12 2 Carleton College NC 2 24-11 2224.62 214 North Central Northwoods DI D-I 2150.96 73.66 0.03
36 3 Wisconsin 18-13 1893.9 248 North Central Lake Superior DI D-I 1846.78 47.13 0.03
45 4 St Olaf 31-3 1811.34 308 North Central Northwoods DIII D-III 1503.24 308.11 0.2
63 18 Iowa 22-5 1686.69 349 North Central West Plains DI D-I 1435.38 251.32 0.18
78 Carleton College-CHOP 28-8 1604.23 255 North Central Northwoods DIII D-III 1456.36 147.87 0.1
94 1 Wisconsin-Eau Claire 20-9 1534.71 285 North Central Lake Superior DI D-I 1421.06 113.66 0.08
105 3 Wisconsin-Milwaukee 15-10 1484.87 285 North Central Lake Superior DI D-I 1415.62 69.26 0.05
107 14 Iowa State 15-13 1476.13 321 North Central West Plains DI D-I 1444.03 32.11 0.02
122 18 Minnesota-B 16-7 1400.63 323 North Central North Central Dev Dev 1294.68 105.95 0.08
129 11 Michigan Tech 14-10 1382.05 208 North Central Lake Superior DIII D-III 1257.56 124.49 0.1
134 10 Macalester 19-12 1372.12 226 North Central Northwoods DIII D-III 1290.44 81.68 0.06
184 4 Wisconsin-La Crosse 12-10 1186.43 288 North Central Lake Superior DI D-I 1214.95 -28.52 -0.02
185 15 Minnesota-Duluth 7-10 1177.59 227 North Central Northwoods DI D-I 1336.29 -158.69 -0.12
193 2 Grinnell 8-11 1154.63 309 North Central West Plains DIII D-III 1163.69 -9.06 -0.01
200 29 Northern Iowa 13-12 1121.31 406 North Central West Plains DI D-I 1073.15 48.16 0.04
227 28 St John's (Minnesota) 9-9 1029.82 445 North Central Northwoods DIII D-III 1015.49 14.33 0.01
237 11 Carthage 15-12 989.65 359 North Central Lake Superior DIII D-III 862.04 127.61 0.15
243 10 Nebraska 9-12 983.44 378 North Central West Plains DI D-I 1002.68 -19.23 -0.02
257 2 Wisconsin-B 8-12 917.85 357 North Central North Central Dev Dev 1077.12 -159.27 -0.15
270 17 Wisconsin-Platteville 11-11 860.27 439 North Central Lake Superior DIII D-III 910.24 -49.96 -0.05
299 Minnesota-C 5-16 718.6 361 North Central North Central Dev Dev 870.06 -151.45 -0.17
304 18 Luther College 5-14 694.97 447 North Central West Plains DIII D-III 958.1 -263.12 -0.27
353 28 Carleton College-Karls-C 3-9 494.35 282 North Central Northwoods DIII Dev 593.61 -99.25 -0.17
362 7 Concordia-Wisconsin 5-17 438.12 431 North Central Lake Superior DIII D-III 740.83 -302.71 -0.41
368 9 Iowa State-B 5-9 400.66 431 North Central ? 584.86 -184.18 -0.31
400 22 Iowa-B 3-8 42.04 426 North Central ? -121.82 163.86 -1.35
414 31 Wisconsin-Milwaukee-B 1-11 -464.77 277 North Central ? -63.39 -401.38 6.33
418 42 Wisconsin-Eau Claire-B 0-6 352 North Central ? 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.