College Women's USAU Rankings (OV)

2023-24 Season

Data updated through August 25 at 9:00pm EDT

FAQ
Division I // Division III
Rank    Change Team                                                 Record Rating Change Region Conference Div   SoS PDC %
16 1 Pennsylvania OV 1 22-9 2099.13 26 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DI D-I 1874.51 224.62 0.12
22 3 Pittsburgh 19-12 1934.21 29 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DI D-I 1856.33 77.89 0.04
24 3 Ohio State 27-10 1893.87 188 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 1707.72 186.16 0.11
49 14 Ohio 17-11 1606.71 191 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 1548.46 58.25 0.04
52 2 Haverford/Bryn Mawr 21-2 1569.87 8 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 1206.74 363.14 0.3
64 3 Penn State 15-15 1476.98 27 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DI D-I 1528.83 -51.85 -0.03
80 17 Cincinnati 14-7 1354.51 143 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 1355.68 -1.16 0
94 9 Lehigh 21-6 1275.7 105 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 1013.48 262.22 0.26
108 6 West Chester 11-15 1179.47 119 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DI D-I 1263.67 -84.18 -0.07
112 22 Carnegie Mellon 4-19 1134.03 157 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DI D-I 1404.52 -270.49 -0.19
121 42 Temple 8-17 1078.5 444 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DI D-I 1225.64 -147.13 -0.12
132 4 Cedarville 11-7 1002.53 56 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 855.74 146.79 0.17
134 48 Franciscan 4-2 981 329 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 746.16 234.84 0.31
158 21 Case Western Reserve 2-16 834.5 65 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 1342.85 -508.35 -0.38
159 60 Kenyon 7-7 825.76 389 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 856.14 -30.38 -0.04
168 Swarthmore 10-12 777.22 204 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 878.8 -101.58 -0.12
203 60 Oberlin 4-9 426.88 424 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 746.98 -320.09 -0.43
207 7 Messiah 2-7 377.96 142 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 469.26 -91.3 -0.19
209 52 Miami (Ohio) 1-6 349.33 366 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 748.99 -399.66 -0.53
220 8 Dickinson 1-8 273.22 198 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 745.09 -471.82 -0.63
243 39 Dayton 0-6 -194.86 367 Ohio Valley Ohio DI D-I 282.62 -477.48 -1.69
250 Pennsylvania-B 0-4 Ohio Valley ? NaN NaN NaN

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.