College Women's USAU Rankings (AC)

2024-25 Season

Data updated through March 11 at 8:00pm EDT

FAQ
Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
11 North Carolina AC 1 10-1 2105.45 227 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1758.36 347.09 0.2
21 Virginia 13-4 1778.55 231 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1589.68 188.87 0.12
33 1 William & Mary 3-2 1558.33 232 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1562.69 -4.36 0
36 Georgetown 8-4 1530.84 226 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1403.57 127.27 0.09
41 American 10-4 1495.48 226 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1377.18 118.29 0.09
48 2 Duke 11-2 1434.29 214 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1152.56 281.74 0.24
58 4 Liberty 7-4 1322 241 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1157.81 164.19 0.14
62 5 South Carolina 2-3 1273.89 232 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1434.86 -160.97 -0.11
70 5 North Carolina State 5-6 1213.21 229 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1430.48 -217.27 -0.15
72 4 Maryland 8-5 1162.65 223 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 1021.49 141.16 0.14
73 4 James Madison 7-5 1161.34 220 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 1215.63 -54.29 -0.04
83 7 Appalachian State 4-6 1092.5 227 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 1058.08 34.42 0.03
114 10 Richmond 2-3 819.26 258 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 955.2 -135.94 -0.14
123 7 George Washington 7-5 747.32 223 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 822.34 -75.01 -0.09
133 Clemson 2-2 657.05 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 532.39 124.66 0.23
137 9 Virginia Tech 1-4 640.46 260 Atlantic Coast Virginia DI D-I 874.05 -233.59 -0.27
144 9 Wake Forest 3-3 599.31 223 Atlantic Coast Carolina DI D-I 498.31 100.99 0.2
146 12 Catholic 3-8 577.49 258 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 717.72 -140.23 -0.2
147 10 North Carolina-B 3-9 570.02 223 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 714.91 -144.89 -0.2
149 13 Delaware 6-3 565.71 251 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 472.91 92.8 0.2
182 13 Georgetown-B 1-5 183.04 223 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 585.03 -401.99 -0.69
188 14 William & Mary-B 0-6 94.46 261 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 516.98 -422.52 -0.82
190 18 Johns Hopkins 2-6 71.02 326 Atlantic Coast Colonial DI D-I 277.61 -206.59 -0.74
194 6 American-B 1-6 -24.4 175 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 358.26 -382.66 -1.07
211 Maryland-B 0-3 -528.98 Atlantic Coast ? 71.02 -600 -8.45
215 10 Virginia-B 0-6 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast Dev Dev 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.