College Men's USAU Rankings (SW)

2024-25 Season

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

FAQ
Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
6 Cal Poly-SLO SW 1 33-6 2236.91 31 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1941.81 295.11 0.15
8 1 California-Santa Cruz SW 2 27-9 2150.25 35 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1896.02 254.25 0.13
12 1 California SW 3 28-14 2077.75 26 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1953.89 123.88 0.06
32 1 California-Santa Barbara 19-21 1836.17 26 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1838.32 -2.14 0
41 California-San Diego 15-22 1772.27 20 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1809.48 -37.2 -0.02
46 Stanford 23-21 1741.55 24 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1739.73 1.83 0
54 UCLA 15-19 1683.5 21 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1768.38 -84.87 -0.05
65 Grand Canyon 15-5 1624.33 21 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1479.8 144.55 0.1
85 1 Southern California 20-13 1499.33 20 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1398.48 100.87 0.07
94 3 Cal Poly-CCWR 4-1 1474.67 18 Southwest SoCal DI Dev 1019.68 455 0.45
107 Claremont 10-4 1428.35 16 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 1281.08 147.28 0.11
109 San Diego State 23-12 1410.79 18 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1308.78 102.02 0.08
120 1 Cal Poly-SLO-B 14-8 1348.07 19 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1272.27 75.8 0.06
121 1 Arizona State 8-12 1347.3 19 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1381.89 -34.58 -0.03
126 2 San Jose State 20-13 1340.19 19 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1225.61 114.6 0.09
131 4 Santa Clara 9-13 1322.07 20 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1418.63 -96.54 -0.07
138 2 California-Irvine 8-10 1300.29 20 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1400.62 -100.32 -0.07
174 1 California-Santa Cruz-B 15-7 1162.98 17 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 947.56 215.44 0.23
175 2 California-Davis 5-19 1162.65 20 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1371.92 -209.26 -0.15
187 1 Arizona 11-8 1106.58 13 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1062.4 44.19 0.04
199 Occidental 7-7 1058.14 17 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 1068.59 -10.44 -0.01
202 2 Cal Poly-Humboldt 11-12 1047.02 18 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1066.35 -19.32 -0.02
214 3 UCLA-B 13-15 1007.79 18 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 993.67 14.14 0.01
217 1 Cal Poly-Pomona 4-12 996.29 19 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1216.5 -220.2 -0.18
237 Loyola Marymount 5-12 907.24 18 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1119.32 -212.06 -0.19
249 Northern Arizona 5-9 871.65 14 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1015.92 -144.25 -0.14
260 5 Santa Clara-B 1-2 837.41 24 Southwest ? 925.16 -87.74 -0.09
262 1 Nevada-Reno 8-9 822.12 10 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 920.77 -98.64 -0.11
269 Grand Canyon-B 2-4 798.15 9 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 932.01 -133.85 -0.14
279 3 Chico State 2-14 766.49 18 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1048.1 -281.6 -0.27
281 2 California-B 10-19 761.82 15 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 917.25 -155.42 -0.17
289 4 Southern California-B 6-6 739.54 14 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 778.01 -38.46 -0.05
301 2 California-Santa Barbara-B 3-12 670.56 17 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 878.28 -207.7 -0.24
318 2 Arizona State-B 2-8 602.98 15 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 855.3 -252.31 -0.29
333 6 Cal State-Long Beach 1-14 565.67 17 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 959.5 -393.81 -0.41
342 2 Stanford-B 0-5 512.29 21 Southwest NorCal Dev Dev 869.62 -357.32 -0.41
352 2 California-San Diego-B 4-13 420.58 16 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 654.38 -233.78 -0.36
377 3 Cal Poly-SLO-C 0-5 271.44 17 Southwest Southern Southwest Dev Dev 815.48 -544.02 -0.67
379 3 San Diego State-B 1-14 250.94 16 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 641.31 -390.36 -0.61

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.