D-III College Women's USAU Rankings

2024-25 Season

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

AC 1 · GL 1 · ME 2 · NE 2 · NC 2 · NW 3 · OV 2 · SC 1 · SE 1 · SW 1

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Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
1 [36] Haverford/Bryn Mawr OV 1 22-7 1619.05 1 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 1404.83 214.22 0.15
2 [39] Wesleyan ME 1 20-3 1587.33 0 Metro East Eastern Metro East DIII D-III 1400.76 186.57 0.13
3 [46] Carleton College-Eclipse NC 1 14-4 1538.86 6 North Central North Central DIII D-III 1297.78 241.09 0.19
4 [48] 6 Whitman NW 1 16-2 1505.02 63 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1098.47 406.55 0.37
5 [49] Kenyon OV 2 20-1 1498.8 0 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 1095.4 403.4 0.37
6 [51] Middlebury NE 1 20-2 1481.68 0 New England North New England DIII D-III 1100.38 381.3 0.35
7 [55] St Olaf NC 2 14-9 1441.22 1 North Central North Central DIII D-III 1328.99 112.23 0.08
8 [56] Rochester ME 2 19-4 1421.74 0 Metro East Western NY DIII D-III 1119.95 301.79 0.27
9 [58] Davenport GL 1 15-1 1403.13 0 Great Lakes Great Lakes DIII D-III 974.35 428.77 0.44
10 [67] 1 Lewis & Clark NW 2 12-5 1297.81 16 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1167.65 130.16 0.11
11 [71] 1 Union (Tennessee) SE 1 11-1 1270.35 1 Southeast Southeast DIII D-III 853.26 417.1 0.49
12 [73] Colorado College SC 1 17-7 1260.16 9 South Central South Central DIII D-III 1105.44 154.72 0.14
13 [75] 2 Mount Holyoke NE 2 12-5 1222.8 0 New England South New England DIII D-III 1080.41 142.39 0.13
14 [79] 3 Portland NW 3 13-11 1206.76 17 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1234.39 -27.62 -0.02
15 [84] 1 Richmond AC 1 12-5 1148.86 0 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 1071.9 76.97 0.07
16 [85] 1 Wellesley 19-7 1143.84 0 New England Metro Boston DIII D-III 921.92 221.93 0.24
17 [87] 1 Michigan Tech 12-7 1133.92 2 North Central North Central DIII D-III 1090.22 43.7 0.04
18 [88] 1 Rice 12-6 1127.4 4 South Central South Central DIII D-III 1036.03 91.36 0.09
19 [89] 1 Williams 20-8 1118.74 0 New England South New England DIII D-III 950.49 168.25 0.18
20 [94] 2 Ithaca 14-10 1094.08 0 Metro East Western NY DIII D-III 1067.31 26.78 0.03
21 [97] 1 Lehigh 15-17 1090.28 0 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 1074.14 16.15 0.02
22 [101] 1 Macalester 13-7 1054.48 1 North Central North Central DIII D-III 981.47 73.01 0.07
23 [115] 1 Cedarville 13-8 947.08 0 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 876.06 71.02 0.08
24 [116] 3 Puget Sound 8-9 943.82 26 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1072.92 -129.09 -0.12
25 [118] 1 Swarthmore 13-11 939.23 0 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 950.13 -10.9 -0.01
26 [125] 2 Georgia College 7-8 856.15 0 Southeast Southeast DIII D-III 907.73 -51.59 -0.06
27 [127] 3 Butler 7-5 845.17 0 Great Lakes Great Lakes DIII D-III 853.47 -8.3 -0.01
28 [128] 1 Winona State 14-11 844.6 1 North Central North Central DIII D-III 829.5 15.08 0.02
29 [133] Claremont SW 1 11-10 811.23 12 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 773.79 37.45 0.05
30 [135] 1 Trinity 10-12 802.96 4 South Central South Central DIII D-III 883.33 -80.42 -0.09
31 [141] 3 Catholic 6-11 734.02 0 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 739.32 -5.3 -0.01
32 [144] 2 Knox 8-10 725.69 1 Great Lakes Great Lakes DIII D-III 686.3 39.37 0.06
33 [148] 1 Dartmouth 6-9 708.43 0 New England North New England DIII D-III 774.76 -66.33 -0.09
34 [149] 1 Davidson 11-8 704.52 0 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 686.26 18.27 0.03
35 [154] 1 Xavier 10-11 677.47 0 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 703.15 -25.68 -0.04
36 [155] 1 Berry 8-9 677.43 0 Southeast Southeast DIII D-III 830.64 -153.22 -0.18
37 [157] 1 Bates 7-13 671.73 0 New England North New England DIII D-III 802.56 -130.83 -0.16
38 [161] 1 Colby 4-10 659.88 0 New England North New England DIII D-III 749.81 -89.93 -0.12
39 [162] 1 SUNY-Geneseo 8-17 646.31 0 Metro East Western NY DIII D-III 768.85 -122.54 -0.16
40 [171] 3 Pacific Lutheran 5-10 603 17 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 715.96 -112.95 -0.16
41 [183] 1 Occidental 5-6 525.62 9 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 673.43 -147.8 -0.22
42 [184] Skidmore 10-12 521.4 0 Metro East Eastern Metro East DIII D-III 572.27 -50.88 -0.09
43 [191] 2 Colorado Mines 4-5 470.45 4 South Central South Central DIII D-III 557.95 -87.58 -0.16
44 [192] 2 St Olaf-B 4-13 470.42 1 North Central North Central DIII D-III 608.6 -138.2 -0.23
45 [198] 1 Harding 3-4 454.21 3 South Central Ozarks DIII D-III 466.88 -12.8 -0.03
46 [199] Oberlin 1-16 440.83 0 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 789.87 -349.04 -0.44
47 [200] Truman State 7-17 433.99 3 South Central South Central DIII D-III 602.51 -168.55 -0.28
48 [202] Messiah 1-3 396.79 0 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 730.74 -333.95 -0.46
49 [223] 2 Dickinson 3-13 205.15 0 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 451.07 -245.92 -0.55
50 [228] 1 Elon 1-9 165.12 0 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 428.82 -263.7 -0.61
51 [239] 1 Connecticut College 0-9 75.32 0 Metro East Eastern Metro East DIII D-III 444.04 -368.72 -0.83
52 [250] Lewis & Clark -B 0-6 -38.61 14 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 332.67 -371.27 -1.12
53 [251] Colorado College-B 0-10 -46.09 8 South Central South Central DIII D-III 477.97 -524.21 -1.1
54 [256] John Brown 0-4 -165.86 8 South Central South Central DIII D-III 433.99 -600 -1.38

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.