How Rankings Work
A complete guide to how pro athlete rankings are calculated — from how points are earned per race, to how they roll up into the leaderboard and country qualification.
- Points Scoring — how points are earned per race
- Event Tiers — Pro, Regional, Major, World
- Points Rankings — best 5 results, rolling window
- Time Rankings — fastest finishing times
- All-Time Rankings — every result ever
- Country Rankings (NPI) — mixed relay qualification
- Field Strength — tiebreaker metric
Points Scoring
Every pro race awards points to the top finishers. The number of points depends on two things: the event tier and your finishing position.
The race winner always receives fixed bonus points (the higher the tier, the more). Athletes finishing just behind the winner also earn fixed points, as long as their time stays within certain thresholds of the winner's time. Beyond the fixed-points positions, athletes earn ratio-based points: their score equals the percentage of the winner's time they achieved (e.g. finishing 5% slower than the winner ≈ 95 points), capped at 20% behind the winner.
Event Tiers
Not all races are equal. Events are classified into four tiers based on their prestige. Higher-tier events award more points to the top finishers and have deeper fields eligible for scoring.
| Tier | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Scoring depth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World | 115 | 112 | 110 | Top 15 |
| Major | 110 | 108 | 107 | Top 15 |
| Regional | 108 | 106 | 103 | Top 12 |
| Pro | 105 | 100* | Ratio | Top 8 |
* At Pro tier, 2nd place gets 100 points only if within 10% of the winner's time. 3rd–8th earn ratio-based points with progressively wider time cutoffs (12.5%–20%).
At higher tiers (Regional, Major, World), more positions receive fixed points before switching to ratio-based scoring. Athletes finishing more than 20% behind the winner receive no points.
Points Rankings
The Points Rankings leaderboard sums an athlete's best results within a rolling 365-day window. Only recent form counts — older results automatically drop off.
- Singles: best 5 results
- Doubles: best 3 results
An athlete's total score is the sum of the points from their counting results. If two athletes have the same total, the tiebreaker is field strength.
Time Rankings
The Time Rankings rank athletes by their fastest finishing times, also within a rolling 365-day window.
- Singles: average of best 2 times
- Doubles: best 1 time
Where Points Rankings reward consistency across multiple races, Time Rankings highlight peak performance.
All-Time Rankings
The All-Time Rankings show every individual race result ever recorded, ranked by finish time. There is no rolling window — a fast time from Season 1 still counts. You can filter by season to compare across eras.
Country Rankings (NPI)
The National Performance Index (NPI) ranks countries for World Championship Mixed Relay qualification. It combines the Points Rankings scores of a nation's best athletes.
- Each nation's team = top 2 men + top 2 women
- Each athlete's contribution = their Points Ranking total (best 5 singles results)
- NPI score = sum of all 4 athletes' totals
- Qualification window: April 2025 – April 2026 (fixed, not rolling)
20 nations qualify: 1 host nation (Sweden for 2026) + 19 highest NPI scores. An additional 3 spots are awarded via Regional Championships (EMEA, APAC, Americas), which are not tracked here.
Field Strength
Field strength (SoF) measures how competitive a race division was before the race happened. It is calculated by summing the existing points totals of all competitors in the division at the time of the event.
A higher field strength means you were racing against stronger competition. It is used as a tiebreaker in the Points Rankings: if two athletes have the same total points, the one with higher aggregate field strength across their counting races ranks higher.