Understanding the rankings

In short

• A win earns you points — and all the more when your opponent wins often.
• A loss never takes any away. It only weighs on your consistency, the multiplier shown next to your points.
• Only your 15 best wins count. Anything beyond that doesn't add up.

Which matches count

Public matches and those limited to your circle, as soon as they're recorded. Not training sessions — no score, no result to count. Not private matches, and not declined ones.

Everything counts sport by sport: your tennis points and your padel points never mix, and an opponent's value is measured on their record in that sport. The "All sports" view simply adds up each total.

A match counts for 365 days, then it drops out of the rankings. It disappears from nothing else: your stats, your head-to-head and your history keep it forever.

What a win earns you

100 points × opponent value × repeat discount

An opponent's value is their share of wins in that sport, as it stands on the day of the match — measured with caution. A player nobody has seen play yet is worth 17%: beating them earns little. Real progress comes from beating players who have proven themselves.

"Cautiously" means this: as long as a player has few matches on record, their record is topped up with a handful of matches counted in advance, and mostly lost ones. The more they actually play, the less that ballast weighs. Which is exactly what makes it pointless to manufacture a rating with a brand-new account.

What a first win is worth, depending on your opponent:

• A player nobody has seen play yet0 W · 0 L17 pts
• A player who loses more than they win2 W · 8 L19 pts
• A player who wins one out of every two5 W · 5 L42 pts
• A player who wins far more than they lose8 W · 2 L65 pts
• A player who almost never loses45 W · 5 L86 pts

In doubles

Against a pair, it's the average of the two that counts, and both winners get the same. Beating a player who wins far more than he loses — 65 pts on his own — paired with a player nobody knows anything about — 17 pts — earns 41 pts for each of you.

Beating the same player again pays less and less

Each new win against the same opposition is worth a share of the previous one: 100%, 75%, 50%, then 25%.

The last tier is a floor: it goes no lower. The discount follows the sport — beat the same player in another sport and it's back to full value — and, in doubles, the exact pair: the same opponents in a different line-up count as new too.

Both effects stack — each defeat also lowers their value. If you beat the same player five times in a row:

• Win no. 142 pts
• Win no. 229 pts
• Win no. 318 pts
• Win no. 49 pts
• Win no. 58 pts

A loss never takes points away

Your win points are yours for good. What a loss does is weigh on your consistency — the multiplier shown on every line of the rankings, next to your points.

And not all losses weigh the same: losing to a strong player counts for far less than a loss to someone you should have beaten. A loss weighs at least 50% of what the worst one would weigh. So taking your chances against someone better than you costs almost nothing.

What a loss weighs, depending on who beat you:

• A player who almost never loses45 W · 5 L57%
• A player who wins one out of every two5 W · 5 L79%
• A player nobody has seen play yet0 W · 0 L92%

How your total is built

win points × consistency = your points

Win points are the sum of your 15 highest-scoring wins of the period, in that sport. Beyond that, one more win adds nothing to the total — that's what keeps sheer volume from making a champion. Just like the pros.

Consistency compares what you win to everything you play. It rises with every win, drops with every loss — and never all the way to zero: it multiplies your points, it doesn't erase them.

(your wins + 1) ÷ (your wins + the weight of your losses + 2)

Those two little numbers are why a brand-new record isn't yet worth full price: a single win, however handsome, doesn't outrank ten. They fade away on their own as you keep playing.

Three records, in the same sport:

• A single win, against an unknown player11 pts17 × 65%
• Ten wins against even-record players, no losses385 pts420 × 92%
• The same ten wins, plus five losses290 pts420 × 69%

A match's points never change again

They're calculated the moment the match is logged, using that day's records, then set in stone. If the player you just beat becomes unbeatable the following month, your points don't go up; if they quit altogether, they don't go down.

A match logged long after the fact is therefore valued using the records from the day you enter it, not the day you played it.

Only two things can undo those points. A match declined by an opponent no longer exists for anyone: it leaves the rankings of everyone who played in it. And a match switched back to private drops out too — make it public again and it comes back intact, worth exactly what it was worth.

The board, ranks and filters

Two players separated by nothing share the same rank, and the next one picks up the count — just like in competition. On equal points, wins break the tie, then the most recent match.

Switching scope recalculates nothing: "My circle" and a group keep everyone's points and simply re-rank whoever's left. Your total never depends on who's looking at it.

"Internal matches" is the only exception: this filter counts only games played between members, and both the win cap and consistency are recalculated on that selection. An internal total can therefore exceed your overall total — with fewer losses in the denominator, there's less to dilute.

Players in range with no match over the period still appear on the board, on zero points. All that's left is to challenge them.