College Women's USAU Rankings (GL)

2024-25 Season

Data updated through March 23 at 10:00pm EDT

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Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
7 7 Michigan GL 1 9-3 2557.08 100 Great Lakes Eastern Great Lakes DI D-I 2445.12 111.98 0.05
30 1 Notre Dame 4-3 1970.77 85 Great Lakes Eastern Great Lakes DI D-I 1954.33 16.45 0.01
61 6 Davenport 10-1 1585.63 58 Great Lakes Great Lakes DIII D-III 1283.68 301.96 0.24
72 37 Illinois 7-6 1482.07 166 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 1311.92 170.19 0.13
76 5 Butler 5-2 1431.18 46 Great Lakes Great Lakes DIII D-III 1347.1 84.1 0.06
87 4 Chicago 3-3 1350.52 117 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 1411.28 -60.8 -0.04
90 8 Northwestern 3-8 1332.75 139 Great Lakes Illinois DI D-I 1561 -228.23 -0.15
104 12 Michigan State 3-3 1234.05 44 Great Lakes Eastern Great Lakes DI D-I 1102.62 131.45 0.12
107 1 Purdue 1-4 1222.13 112 Great Lakes Eastern Great Lakes DI D-I 1324.97 -102.86 -0.08
135 10 Indiana 4-2 1002.17 47 Great Lakes Eastern Great Lakes DI D-I 941.99 60.19 0.06
145 24 Knox 1-5 877.88 41 Great Lakes Great Lakes DIII D-III 1216.54 -338.65 -0.28
149 9 Grand Valley 1-5 852.77 43 Great Lakes Eastern Great Lakes DI D-I 1154.49 -301.71 -0.26
206 6 Northwestern-B 0-5 264.49 65 Great Lakes Illinois DI Dev 627 -362.5 -0.58
216 Purdue-B 0-6 50.83 72 Great Lakes Great Lakes Dev Dev 594.86 -544.01 -0.91

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.