Approximated USAU College Rankings: The Early Season Bid Picture

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 rankings approximation.

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

Men’s Division

The rankings below include only teams with at least five sanctioned games. Teams will be required to have 10 games logged for the final rankings at the end of the season.

Rank Team Rating Record 1 Auburn 1920.54 5-1 2 North Carolina 1920.48 11-0 3 North Carolina-Wilmington 1896.19 11-0 4 Washington 1852.46 7-0 5 Alabama-Huntsville 1704.68 6-1 6 Georgia Tech 1702.04 6-1 7 Florida 1680.17 3-2 8 Kennesaw State 1663.81 13-1 9 Michigan 1646.40 4-2 10 North Carolina State 1642.70 6-4 11 Cal Poly-SLO 1613.51 6-3 12 Colorado State 1612.26 5-3 13 Texas State 1602.13 9-0 14 Tennessee 1588.86 4-0 15 Massachusetts 1584.40 4-2 16 Stanford 1575.27 5-2 17 Illinois 1573.24 7-0 18 California 1548.90 10-4 19 Brigham Young 1537.86 4-2 20 North Carolina-Charlotte 1537.66 4-2 21 Western Washington 1535.61 5-2 22 Southern California 1531.59 5-3 23 Northeastern 1526.69 4-2 24 Connecticut 1498.64 5-1 25 Pittsburgh 1490.75 4-2

Implied Bid Allocation

AC 3 · GL 2 · ME 1 · NE 1 · NC 1 · NW 1 · OV 1 · SC 2 · SE 6 · SW 2

Women’s Division

The rankings below include only teams with at least five sanctioned games. Teams will be required to have 10 games logged for the final rankings next week.

Rank Team Rating Record 1 Carleton College 2273.45 5-0 2 Pittsburgh 2209.58 4-1 3 Tufts University 2209.23 4-1 4 Stanford 2174.85 6-0 5 North Carolina 2163.83 4-1 6 California-San Diego 2142.47 5-1 7 West Chester University 2041.22 8-3 8 Ohio State 1999.79 8-3 9 Dartmouth 1883.32 4-1 10 North Carolina State 1846.48 3-2 11 Wisconsin 1788.59 2-3 12 North Carolina-Wilmington 1764.49 9-2 13 Michigan 1758.96 6-6 14 California 1755.09 4-2 15 Vermont 1727.83 5-1 16 Georgia Tech 1722.69 3-2 17 California-Santa Barbara 1703.46 9-2 18 Northeastern 1663.73 2-3 19 Florida 1620.15 4-7 20 Washington University 1604.63 3-3 21 Colorado College 1598.09 0-4 22 Cal Poly-SLO 1596.31 9-3 23 Kansas 1560.68 2-4 24 Kennesaw State 1548.19 7-4 25 Florida State 1534.46 5-1

Implied Bid Allocation

AC 3 · GL 1 · ME 1 · NE 3 · NC 2 · NW 1 · OV 3 · SC 1 · SE 1 · SW 4

For more information, check out Cody’s rankings site, which also includes ‘seeded’ rankings for both Men’s and Women’s, that includes a component based on teams’ final rating from 2017 (which reduces the early season variance). Also, check out these cool connectivity visuals (Men’s / Women’s).