College Men's USAU Rankings (SW)

2023-24 Season

Data updated through August 25 at 9:00pm EDT

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Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
5 Cal Poly-SLO SW 1 34-4 2396.85 222 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 2057.03 339.82 0.17
15 California SW 2 31-10 2157.46 233 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1942.7 214.77 0.11
24 1 UCLA 20-20 2020.7 212 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 2029.84 -9.13 0
33 2 California-Santa Cruz 21-18 1907.18 270 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1838.82 68.37 0.04
34 9 California-San Diego 14-18 1903.45 341 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1821.96 81.49 0.04
60 6 California-Santa Barbara 15-18 1715.6 246 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1787.45 -71.85 -0.04
67 2 Stanford 18-21 1671.57 267 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1700.57 -29.01 -0.02
71 8 Grand Canyon 13-11 1629.57 289 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1592.38 37.18 0.02
113 2 Southern California 7-13 1454.03 269 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1546.4 -92.38 -0.06
121 30 Cal Poly-SLO-B 15-12 1401.25 367 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1499.72 -98.47 -0.07
124 5 San Jose State 16-10 1392.34 266 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1406.79 -14.45 -0.01
125 9 California-Irvine 8-14 1391.92 283 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1606.83 -214.92 -0.13
133 23 Arizona State 13-8 1375.09 183 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1284.61 90.49 0.07
144 16 Santa Clara 10-12 1336.2 343 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1445.6 -109.42 -0.08
158 6 UCLA-B 13-6 1289.07 317 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1177.9 111.1 0.09
192 59 Loyola Marymount 10-7 1155.9 46 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1064.32 91.54 0.09
211 1 San Diego State 10-13 1080.14 309 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1121.67 -41.66 -0.04
219 8 Arizona 7-8 1052.48 280 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1126.69 -74.4 -0.07
221 19 California-B 14-9 1048.92 222 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 988.61 60.19 0.06
230 36 California-Davis 12-11 1015.39 167 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 959.44 55.91 0.06
235 1 Claremont 14-9 995.21 292 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 901.2 93.86 0.1
247 54 Northern Arizona 6-8 965.2 115 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1044.22 -79.14 -0.08
255 28 Cal State-Long Beach 7-13 922.79 201 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1034.28 -111.55 -0.11
298 13 Southern California-B 4-10 720.15 293 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 807.96 -88.13 -0.11
328 55 Nevada-Reno 4-13 602 95 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 871.74 -269.77 -0.31
332 2 California-San Diego-B 5-10 591.08 420 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 714.03 -123.14 -0.17
334 42 California-Santa Barbara-B 8-14 581.39 179 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 686.15 -104.58 -0.15
338 11 Cal Poly-Humboldt 4-17 563.56 536 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 812.4 -248.82 -0.31
344 37 Chico State 3-12 540.15 222 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 754.9 -214.88 -0.28
350 40 Arizona State-B 2-8 511.42 209 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 849.17 -337.56 -0.4
352 32 Cal Poly-SLO-C 1-4 498.92 239 Southwest Southern Southwest Dev Dev 782.08 -283.39 -0.36
354 31 California-Santa Cruz-B 6-12 491.33 252 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 597.24 -106.04 -0.18
396 67 California-San Diego-C 0-10 117.11 58 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 601.71 -485.19 -0.81
416 45 San Diego State-B 0-4 266 Southwest ? 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.