College Women's USAU Rankings (SW)

2024-25 Season

Data updated through February 19 at 11:00am PST

FAQ
Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
8 California-Santa Cruz SW 1 8-5 1694.26 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1583.15 111.1 0.07
9 Cal Poly-SLO SW 2 10-3 1692.49 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1647.79 44.69 0.03
10 California-San Diego SW 3 8-6 1681.64 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1619.85 61.78 0.04
15 Stanford SW 4 6-6 1596.71 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1517.52 79.2 0.05
19 California-Davis 5-9 1463.79 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 1460.88 2.91 0
22 California-Santa Barbara 7-5 1418.77 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1419.99 -1.22 0
27 UCLA 7-11 1319.44 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1567.38 -247.94 -0.16
43 California 5-2 1062.06 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 845.58 216.48 0.26
45 California-Irvine 9-4 1048.33 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 699.52 348.81 0.5
49 Southern California 5-8 1024.85 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 1207.01 -182.16 -0.15
54 Santa Clara 9-2 973.55 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 598.95 374.6 0.63
57 San Diego State 6-0 891.77 Southwest SoCal DI D-I 557.52 334.25 0.6
66 Grand Canyon 5-1 737.18 Southwest Desert DI D-I 514.3 222.88 0.43
72 Northern Arizona 2-4 575.1 Southwest Desert DI D-I 776.56 -201.47 -0.26
74 Arizona State 8-5 550.62 Southwest Desert DI D-I 449.03 101.59 0.23
75 Occidental 4-2 537.05 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 618.48 -81.43 -0.13
76 Cal Poly-SLO-B 3-7 518.91 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 715.01 -196.1 -0.27
77 California-San Diego-B 4-5 500.22 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 255.7 244.51 0.96
78 Claremont 1-6 491.32 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 886.38 -395.06 -0.45
82 California-B 5-6 469.87 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 538.65 -68.78 -0.13
84 Stanford-B 1-5 452.82 Southwest ? 827.3 -374.48 -0.45
88 Nevada-Reno 3-7 292.09 Southwest NorCal DI D-I 473.95 -181.86 -0.38
89 California-Davis-B 1-5 282.77 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 487.72 -204.94 -0.42
91 Arizona 4-8 261.67 Southwest Desert DI D-I 391.55 -129.88 -0.33
97 UCLA-B 3-4 -29.04 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 151.13 -180.17 -1.19
102 Arizona-B 0-6 -289.35 Southwest Southwest Dev Dev 184.48 -473.83 -2.57
106 California-San Diego-C 0-7 -935.05 Southwest SoCal DI Dev -335.05 -600 1.79

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.