College Men's USAU Rankings (NW)

2023-24 Season

Data updated through April 1 at 8:00pm EDT

FAQ
Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
6 Oregon NW 1 25-4 2109.26 35 Northwest Cascadia DI D-I 1819.74 289.52 0.16
17 3 Brigham Young NW 2 16-11 1875.44 39 Northwest Big Sky DI D-I 1768.55 106.89 0.06
18 1 Oregon State NW 3 15-8 1869.3 32 Northwest Cascadia DI D-I 1855.01 14.3 0.01
22 Washington 14-10 1819 44 Northwest Cascadia DI D-I 1748.89 70.11 0.04
24 2 British Columbia 14-8 1800.53 42 Northwest Cascadia DI D-I 1715.23 85.29 0.05
26 7 Utah State 8-10 1769.41 88 Northwest Big Sky DI D-I 1776.03 -6.63 0
30 2 Utah 13-13 1676.99 31 Northwest Big Sky DI D-I 1681.12 -4.13 0
39 7 Victoria 6-16 1585.73 38 Northwest Cascadia DI D-I 1754.19 -168.45 -0.1
45 22 Utah Valley 19-4 1532.9 241 Northwest Big Sky DI D-I 1335.89 197.01 0.15
59 2 Whitman 13-1 1436.78 10 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1039.43 397.35 0.38
63 11 Western Washington 9-11 1422.23 46 Northwest Cascadia DI D-I 1613.45 -191.22 -0.12
80 8 Lewis & Clark 12-2 1339.69 16 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1050.79 288.89 0.27
94 4 Puget Sound 10-0 1260.79 17 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 742.28 518.51 0.7
159 4 Gonzaga 5-1 1002.87 1 Northwest Big Sky DI D-I 632.5 370.38 0.59
168 3 Washington State 14-5 953.98 7 Northwest Big Sky DI D-I 692.21 261.77 0.38
171 58 Montana State 1-4 947.5 255 Northwest Big Sky DI D-I 1238.41 -290.9 -0.23
178 39 Brigham Young-B 4-11 912.89 179 Northwest Northwest Dev Dev 1187.2 -274.31 -0.23
186 1 Washington-B 7-3 865.41 10 Northwest Cascadia DI Dev 724.83 140.59 0.19
190 2 Portland 10-6 861.75 11 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 701.53 160.22 0.23
246 34 Montana 3-4 638.01 112 Northwest Big Sky DI D-I 651 -12.99 -0.02
279 8 Whitworth 8-10 479.7 3 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 512.49 -32.79 -0.06
284 5 Pacific Lutheran 4-9 430.87 7 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 525.17 -94.29 -0.18
286 4 Reed 2-10 422.14 9 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 707.05 -284.9 -0.4
291 8 Idaho 2-4 405.33 5 Northwest Big Sky DI D-I 611.88 -206.54 -0.34
339 7 Portland State 2-13 105.28 3 Northwest Cascadia DI D-I 371.47 -266.18 -0.72
340 6 Willamette 1-4 97.38 5 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 356.12 -258.73 -0.73
341 11 Boise State 0-11 96.53 22 Northwest Big Sky DI D-I 551.15 -454.62 -0.82
345 5 Seattle 1-4 54.9 7 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 427.61 -372.71 -0.87
356 12 Oregon State-B 2-13 -8.5 2 Northwest Cascadia DI Dev 244.39 -252.89 -1.03

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.