How it works

Whenever you play a rated match at an official event, the result feeds into your rating for the current set. There is no separate score per tournament; everything rolls into one number that reflects how you are performing right now. Around 1500 is average, and higher is stronger.

Who you beat matters: beating a strong player moves you more than beating a weak one, so the rating rewards real competition rather than padding wins against easy opponents.

After each match your rating updates based on the result and how strong your opponent was. The system forms an expected score from both ratings, then rewards you for doing better than expected and deducts when you do worse. Beating a higher-rated player gains you more than beating a lower-rated one, and a narrow loss to a strong opponent costs less than losing to someone you were expected to beat.

Only the result counts, not the score line: a 2-0 and a 2-1 are both a full win, and a 0-2 and a 1-2 are both a full loss. Byes do not change your rating, though they still show as a win in your record.

Ratings are calculated per event, not per match: the engine weighs your whole performance at an event as one unit and updates your rating once the event finishes, usually within an hour.

The system also tracks how sure it is about your rating. New players, and players who have been away, have an uncertain rating; regulars have a confident one. Your earliest games move you the most, and the number settles as you play.

The leaderboard needs both enough games and enough confidence before it ranks you, so one lucky run will not put you on top.

New to a season, you start off the leaderboard and play a short run of placement matches that settle your rating in. Once you have played enough and the system is confident enough, your tier and ladder position appear automatically.

Those games stay marked as placements in your match history, so you can tell which results were still calibrating your rating.