D-III College Women's USAU Rankings

2024-25 Season

Data updated through March 31 at 3:45pm EDT

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 [35] 6 Carleton College-Eclipse NC 1 10-3 1951.89 23 North Central North Central DIII D-III 1693.57 258.32 0.15
2 [40] 16 Haverford/Bryn Mawr OV 1 13-7 1843.37 181 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 1812.66 30.73 0.02
3 [42] 14 Kenyon OV 2 12-0 1837.77 145 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 1237.79 600 0.48
4 [44] Whitman NW 1 12-2 1830.92 8 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1552.59 278.33 0.18
5 [47] 2 Wesleyan ME 1 11-3 1820.96 10 Metro East Eastern Metro East DIII D-III 1673.92 147.06 0.09
6 [50] 53 Middlebury NE 1 12-1 1802.59 552 New England North New England DIII D-III 1391.41 411.23 0.3
7 [59] 2 Davenport GL 1 10-1 1659.67 72 Great Lakes Great Lakes DIII D-III 1288.6 371.1 0.29
8 [61] 6 Lewis & Clark NW 2 9-4 1656.43 13 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1603.85 52.59 0.03
9 [65] 6 Portland NW 3 11-8 1626.91 22 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1571.66 55.26 0.04
10 [66] 15 St Olaf NC 2 9-9 1623.78 81 North Central North Central DIII D-III 1612.62 11.17 0.01
11 [69] 107 Rochester ME 2 10-3 1586.57 891 Metro East Western NY DIII D-III 1389.52 197.05 0.14
12 [72] 10 Colorado College SC 1 12-6 1556.22 30 South Central South Central DIII D-III 1438.02 118.22 0.08
13 [73] 9 Union (Tennessee) SE 1 9-1 1522.08 37 Southeast Southeast DIII D-III 1174.03 347.9 0.3
14 [78] Mount Holyoke NE 2 2-4 1491.17 New England South New England DIII D-III 1638.1 -146.93 -0.09
15 [81] 104 Wellesley 12-5 1466.26 883 New England Metro Boston DIII D-III 1265.34 200.93 0.16
16 [84] 32 Macalester 9-5 1432.7 256 North Central North Central DIII D-III 1390.65 42.06 0.03
17 [90] 8 Ithaca 7-6 1376.07 92 Metro East Western NY DIII D-III 1406.32 -30.24 -0.02
18 [92] 5 Richmond AC 1 6-5 1356.1 72 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 1375.98 -19.89 -0.01
19 [93] 11 Rice 7-5 1345.62 31 South Central South Central DIII D-III 1270.61 74.83 0.06
20 [95] 36 Williams 13-5 1338.62 307 New England South New England DIII D-III 1218.32 120.38 0.1
21 [96] 2 Michigan Tech 8-5 1336.29 28 North Central North Central DIII D-III 1333.38 2.93 0
22 [101] 26 Butler 5-2 1312.73 121 Great Lakes Great Lakes DIII D-III 1228.66 84.1 0.07
23 [102] 9 Lehigh 9-12 1276.26 75 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 1290.63 -14.41 -0.01
24 [114] 22 Cedarville 8-4 1211.01 108 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 1114.18 96.92 0.09
25 [117] 15 Swarthmore 8-5 1195.07 166 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 1104.33 90.74 0.08
26 [121] 8 Puget Sound 5-7 1171.73 17 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 1249.02 -77.29 -0.06
27 [122] 3 Claremont SW 1 9-10 1150.79 72 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 1229.61 -78.86 -0.06
28 [124] 16 Xavier 8-5 1134.5 88 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 1065.91 68.57 0.06
29 [125] Dartmouth 5-1 1120.25 New England North New England DIII D-III 795.08 325.12 0.41
30 [129] 24 Winona State 12-7 1098.99 133 North Central North Central DIII D-III 939.34 159.57 0.17
31 [134] 4 Catholic 3-8 1058.71 77 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 1141.11 -82.41 -0.07
32 [136] 7 Trinity 7-9 1035.87 27 South Central South Central DIII D-III 1115.82 -79.99 -0.07
33 [141] 5 Georgia College 6-7 1012.61 3 Southeast Southeast DIII D-III 1078.21 -65.48 -0.06
34 [142] 32 Berry 8-7 1002.17 205 Southeast Southeast DIII D-III 1077.99 -74.82 -0.07
35 [143] 4 SUNY-Geneseo 6-9 1000.08 123 Metro East Western NY DIII D-III 1072.07 -71.96 -0.07
36 [151] 67 Davidson 7-6 970.84 390 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 913.7 56.79 0.06
37 [154] 42 Occidental 5-4 952.23 237 Southwest Southwest DIII D-III 936.25 15.98 0.02
38 [157] 9 Knox 5-8 935.2 60 Great Lakes Great Lakes DIII D-III 975.38 -40.17 -0.04
39 [165] 8 Oberlin 1-8 837.33 10 Ohio Valley Ohio DIII D-III 1153.84 -316.48 -0.27
40 [167] 51 Colby 3-7 836.35 735 New England North New England DIII D-III 932 -95.63 -0.1
41 [173] 17 Pacific Lutheran 4-7 793.46 39 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 848.34 -54.85 -0.06
42 [177] 14 Colorado Mines 4-5 762.06 27 South Central South Central DIII D-III 879.06 -117.02 -0.13
43 [179] 42 Bates 3-7 754.54 709 New England North New England DIII D-III 857.54 -102.94 -0.12
44 [181] 13 Truman State 6-12 739.96 26 South Central South Central DIII D-III 927.21 -187.23 -0.2
45 [183] 24 Harding 3-4 727.98 72 South Central Ozarks DIII D-III 740.84 -12.8 -0.02
46 [185] 10 Skidmore 4-8 689.71 199 Metro East Eastern Metro East DIII D-III 893.27 -203.53 -0.23
47 [187] 25 St Olaf-B 2-10 668.07 123 North Central North Central DIII D-III 980.62 -312.51 -0.32
48 [213] 14 Dickinson 3-9 476.19 29 Ohio Valley Pennsylvania DIII D-III 595.75 -119.56 -0.2
49 [226] Connecticut College 0-5 338.33 Metro East Eastern Metro East DIII D-III 731.19 -392.9 -0.54
50 [228] 22 John Brown 0-4 302.65 34 South Central South Central DIII D-III 902.66 -600 -0.66
51 [234] 26 Lewis & Clark -B 0-6 230.67 56 Northwest Northwest DIII D-III 601.97 -371.27 -0.62
52 [237] Elon 1-5 203.3 Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast DIII D-III 359.98 -156.53 -0.43
53 [244] 15 Colorado College-B 0-6 South Central South Central DIII D-III 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.