D-III College Men's USAU Rankings (SC)

2023-24 Season

Data updated through August 25 at 9:00pm EDT

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Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
2 [41] 6 Oklahoma Christian SC 1 21-6 1852.87 333 South Central Ozarks DIII D-III 1529.19 323.69 0.21
15 [101] 32 Colorado Mines 21-6 1512.08 143 South Central Rocky Mountain DIII D-III 1336.21 175.87 0.13
20 [119] 9 Colorado College 14-14 1408.16 272 South Central South Central DIII D-III 1400.9 7.26 0.01
27 [143] 18 Truman State 14-15 1337.06 344 South Central Ozarks DIII D-III 1348.19 -11.13 -0.01
29 [153] 26 Missouri S&T 16-15 1305.15 401 South Central Ozarks DIII D-III 1322.04 -16.89 -0.01
30 [165] 23 John Brown 12-11 1268.53 406 South Central Ozarks DIII D-III 1282.74 -14.21 -0.01
50 [231] 39 Harding 8-18 1015.31 164 South Central Ozarks DIII D-III 1324.48 -309.16 -0.23
58 [253] 16 Rice 5-5 929.6 253 South Central Texas DIII D-III 894.54 35.06 0.04
63 [274] 17 Air Force 1-8 850.51 279 South Central Rocky Mountain DIII D-III 1248.21 -397.7 -0.32
66 [281] 7 Trinity 6-14 827.06 323 South Central Texas DIII D-III 1031.22 -204.15 -0.2

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.