We Approximated The USAU College Rankings: See The Early Bid Picture

An early glance at the rankings!

Ultiworld’s Cody Mills has put together a statistical tool to approximate the USA Ultimate rankings by using publicly available score data and applying the algorithm that USA Ultimate uses to run their numbers. While the results below are unofficial and could include some scores which are liable to be altered or removed from the official rankings, they are a good representation of the what the current rankings would look like.

Throughout the remainder of the college season, we will be running this USAU ranking approximation and, later, applying different algorithms and/or ranking methods to test possible alternatives to the existing algorithm.

For more information about the USA Ultimate algorithm, ranking system, and some of its perceived flaws, see this FAQ from 2015.

Of course, at this point in the season, rankings should be taken with a large grain of salt; connectivity is limited and some odd results will diminish given more competition.

Men’s Division

The rankings below include only teams with at least five sanctioned games. This is the same cutoff that USAU will use in their initial rankings.

Rank Team Rating Record Region 1 Pittsburgh 2150.24 8-1 OV 2 North Carolina 2133.71 14-0 AC 3 Minnesota 2091.44 7-2 NC 4 Colorado 2069.92 6-0 SC 5 Massachusetts 2032.47 6-1 NE 6 Georgia 1969.94 6-1 SE 7 Carleton College 1948.58 6-3 NC 8 North Carolina-Wilmington 1928.47 5-2 AC 9 Stanford 1900.87 7-0 SW 10 Washington 1896.76 10-3 NW 11 Cal Poly-SLO 1888.05 12-3 SW 12 Northeastern 1859.39 14-1 NE 13 Colorado State 1853.09 6-2 SC 14 Wisconsin 1819.71 5-4 NC 15 Oregon 1811.98 12-1 NW 16 Michigan 1797.39 5-2 GL 17 Northwestern 1760.54 8-2 GL 18 Central Florida 1756.52 9-6 SE 19 Brigham Young 1743.55 9-5 NW 20 North Carolina State 1736.38 18-4 AC 21 Virginia 1723.52 14-1 AC 22 Florida State 1703.29 3-5 SE 23 Illinois 1689.03 4-2 GL 24 Georgia-B 1682.84 6-0 SE 25 Texas A&M 1681.14 5-5 SC 26 Carnegie Mellon 1662.52 6-0 OV 27 Texas 1660.60 5-3 SC 28 George Washington 1653.23 4-3 AC 29 Florida 1649.46 9-6 SE 30 Cincinnati 1643.55 5-2 OV 31 Western Washington 1634.01 7-6 NW 32 British Columbia 1629.35 4-3 NW 33 Williams* 1614.48 10-5 NE 34 Harvard 1610.86 4-3 NE 35 James Madison 1609.55 8-3 AC 36 LSU 1608.66 19-2 SE 37 Texas Tech 1608.38 15-0 SC 38 Virginia Tech 1607.35 4-3 AC 39 Richmond* 1591.48 3-4 AC 40 Oregon State 1578.81 17-5 NW 41 Auburn 1574.06 10-6 SE 42 Utah 1572.28 4-3 NW 43 Princeton 1564.94 6-1 ME 44 Purdue 1560.56 6-1 GL 45 Case Western Reserve 1559.27 10-5 OV 46 California-San Diego 1510.42 5-6 SW 47 Ohio 1509.78 3-0 OV 48 Southern California 1498.50 9-5 SW 49 Penn State 1496.35 11-4 OV 50 Ohio State 1492.70 9-6 OV

*D-III school and will not be counted in D-I bid allocation

Implied Bid Allocation

Atlantic Coast: 2 bids

Great Lakes: 2 bids

Metro East: 1 bid

New England: 2 bids

North Central: 3 bids

Northwest: 3 bids

Ohio Valley: 1 bid

South Central: 2 bids

Southeast: 2 bids

Southwest: 2 bids

Women’s Division

The rankings below include only teams with at least five sanctioned games. This is the same cutoff that USAU will use in their initial rankings.

Rank Team Rating Record Region 1 Stanford 2279.82 11-1 SW 2 UCLA 2142.78 11-1 SW 3 Dartmouth 2100.33 7-0 NE 4 Texas 2089.43 5-2 SC 5 Williams* 2035.59 7-0 NE 6 Kansas 2020.76 13-1 SC 7 Tufts 2000.75 6-1 NE 8 Colorado 1977.69 3-3 SC 9 California 1935.53 8-5 SW 10 Western Washington 1904.91 4-2 NW 11 Cornell 1899.96 6-0 ME 12 Virginia 1894.69 17-2 AC 13 Southern California 1843.91 8-4 SW 14 West Chester University 1839.16 5-2 OV 15 Oregon 1797.66 9-5 NW 16 Carleton College 1788.18 9-4 NC 17 Pittsburgh 1763.53 11-3 OV 18 North Carolina 1758.34 11-3 AC 19 California-San Diego 1756.14 11-6 SW 20 Ohio State 1737.79 10-4 OV 21 Whitman 1722.07 4-3 NW 22 Florida 1701.54 6-7 SE 23 Kennesaw State 1669.23 10-3 SE 24 Truman State* 1649.75 6-1 SC 25 Vanderbilt 1649.53 5-1 SE 26 Minnesota 1639.66 4-3 NC 27 California-Davis 1623.28 12-6 SW 28 Victoria 1620.95 4-3 NW 29 Michigan 1610.89 4-3 GL 30 Amherst* 1607.46 5-3 NE 31 Liberty 1557.69 5-1 AC 32 Bowdoin* 1556.67 5-2 NE 33 South Carolina 1552.07 4-2 SE 34 Notre Dame 1543.96 4-3 GL 35 Carnegie Mellon 1541.19 4-3 OV 36 Washington 1530.28 4-3 NW 37 Vermont 1529.78 4-3 NE 38 Cincinnati 1522.90 9-4 OV 39 Boston College 1517.56 6-1 NE 40 Auburn 1503.67 5-2 SE 41 Georgetown 1502.74 16-4 AC 42 North Carolina-Wilmington 1501.82 10-9 AC 43 Delaware 1496.80 3-4 AC 44 Denver 1496.18 5-2 SC 45 Northeastern 1420.48 4-9 NE 46 Colorado College 1419.07 2-4 SC 47 Brigham Young 1400.98 4-3 NW 48 Chicago 1392.11 3-2 GL 49 Columbia 1390.07 5-2 ME 50 Florida State 1369.70 5-8 SE

*D-III school and will not be counted in D-I bid allocation

Implied Bid Allocation

Atlantic Coast: 2 bids

Great Lakes: 1 bid

Metro East: 1 bid

New England: 2 bids

North Central: 1 bid

Northwest: 2 bids

Ohio Valley: 2 bids

South Central: 3 bids

Southeast: 1 bid

Southwest: 5 bids