College Women's USAU Rankings (SW)

2023-24 Season

Data updated through April 1 at 8:00pm EDT

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Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
6 Stanford SW 1 14-6 2558.63 23 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 2306.22 252.41 0.11
9 California-Santa Barbara SW 2 16-7 2421.8 18 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 2237.07 184.74 0.08
14 California-Santa Cruz SW 3 6-8 2180.23 21 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 2283.4 -103.16 -0.05
15 California-San Diego SW 4 10-11 2162.55 18 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 2219.97 -57.41 -0.03
23 Cal Poly-SLO 13-11 1971.29 6 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 2021.53 -50.23 -0.02
24 California-Davis 8-12 1971.09 14 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 2012.51 -41.41 -0.02
30 1 California 7-18 1884.55 19 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 2171.54 -286.98 -0.13
32 1 UCLA 10-14 1851.87 2 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1893.4 -41.52 -0.02
55 2 Southern California 6-11 1556.09 12 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1716.93 -160.83 -0.09
65 7 Grand Canyon 4-2 1448.37 65 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1256.88 191.5 0.15
67 9 Arizona 8-1 1433.92 68 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1217.99 215.94 0.18
69 5 California-San Diego-B 10-8 1422.37 41 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1383.01 39.37 0.03
71 26 Nevada-Reno 9-3 1398.78 196 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1184.11 214.68 0.18
73 13 San Diego State 10-3 1388.37 113 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1249.03 139.34 0.11
78 21 California-Irvine 7-4 1364.93 175 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1186.31 178.63 0.15
81 14 Santa Clara 7-2 1335.36 125 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1150.46 184.91 0.16
83 5 Northern Arizona 3-3 1330.1 64 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1271.09 59.01 0.05
116 5 Arizona State 2-4 1033.73 62 Southwest Desert DI D-I 1186.45 -152.71 -0.13
118 32 Occidental 3-4 1021.24 301 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 1121.39 -100.14 -0.09
124 40 Claremont 3-9 969.82 316 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 1158.33 -188.51 -0.16
130 19 Cal Poly-SLO-B 2-7 925.76 203 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1205.59 -279.83 -0.23
138 14 California-B 6-9 896.13 218 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1052.83 -156.69 -0.15
159 22 California-Davis-B 3-9 677.88 336 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 782.95 -105.07 -0.13
- Stanford-B 1-2 560.45 168 Southwest ? -38.61 600 -15.54
177 5 Arizona-B 0-6 476.56 40 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 1049.51 -572.94 -0.55
182 11 UCLA-B 1-7 436.13 265 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 664.66 -228.52 -0.34
215 5 California-San Diego-C 0-5 17.67 305 Southwest SoCal DI Dev 572.36 -554.67 -0.97

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.