College Men's USAU Rankings (SW)

2024-25 Season

Data updated through February 19 at 11:00am PST

FAQ
Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
5 Cal Poly-SLO SW 1 12-2 1902.5 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1589.67 312.83 0.2
11 California SW 2 9-5 1762.78 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1599.03 163.75 0.1
15 California-Santa Cruz SW 3 8-6 1700.54 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1630.83 69.7 0.04
42 Stanford 10-8 1375.63 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1398.98 -23.35 -0.02
44 California-San Diego 2-9 1348.17 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1546.55 -198.38 -0.13
48 California-Santa Barbara 3-11 1325.4 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1530.04 -204.64 -0.13
55 Grand Canyon 11-1 1216.94 Southwest Desert DI D-I 908.93 308.01 0.34
62 UCLA 3-9 1170.49 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1423.47 -252.98 -0.18
70 Southern California 9-2 1121.25 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 827.8 293.45 0.35
81 Claremont 3-3 1034.16 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 1033.1 1.06 0
84 Cal Poly-SLO-B 8-5 1024.65 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 956.86 67.79 0.07
90 San Diego State 14-4 959.3 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 752.4 206.9 0.27
94 California-Irvine 5-6 931.06 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 930.62 0.44 0
99 Santa Clara 3-2 879.87 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 801.25 78.61 0.1
102 San Jose State 5-5 863.84 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 855.49 8.35 0.01
114 Cal Poly-Humboldt 7-4 762.08 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 691.17 70.91 0.1
116 California-Santa Cruz-B 6-4 745.44 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 581.59 163.85 0.28
117 Arizona State 2-3 713.56 Southwest Desert DI D-I 845.36 -131.8 -0.16
121 California-Davis 1-12 683.93 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1104.39 -420.46 -0.38
129 Arizona 6-5 629.02 Southwest Desert DI D-I 684.08 -55.06 -0.08
136 Nevada-Reno 2-3 564.58 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 721.48 -156.9 -0.22
146 California-Santa Barbara-B 2-4 458.32 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 623.29 -164.97 -0.26
151 Chico State 1-3 407.01 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 584 -176.99 -0.3
152 UCLA-B 3-7 401.62 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 537.44 -135.82 -0.25
155 Northern Arizona 2-3 356.56 Southwest Desert DI D-I 379.98 -23.42 -0.06
156 California-B 3-8 356.51 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 679.1 -322.59 -0.48
157 Loyola Marymount 3-8 356.37 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 557.82 -201.45 -0.36
166 Grand Canyon-B 2-4 257.51 Southwest ? 469.93 -212.42 -0.45
176 California-San Diego-B 2-4 69.66 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 224.46 -154.8 -0.69
177 San Diego State-B 0-5 64.24 Southwest ? 347.32 -283.08 -0.82
183 Cal Poly-SLO-C 0-5 -125.27 Southwest Southern Southwest Dev Dev 418.76 -544.02 -1.3
188 Arizona State-B 0-5 -291.95 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 308.05 -600 -1.95

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.