Club ratings

Each player has a club rating in each sport: squash, tennis, padel, pickleball, badminton and snooker are each rated apart. Every result in any of the club's competitions in that sport moves it. The rating is what seeds a knockout draw, fills the boxes of a box league and orders a new ladder, and it is shown beside each entry so the convener can set grades.

How it starts

Everyone starts at 1500. A club's existing rankings are not brought in, and every competition starts fresh, ordered by rating.

How it moves

• When a match is played, the winner gains points and the loser loses the same number.
• Beating someone rated higher gains more than beating someone rated lower.
• A one-sided score moves it more than a close one: 3-0 counts for more than 3-2.
• It moves in bigger steps over a player's first ten rated matches, then in smaller ones.
• In doubles, each pair is taken as the average of its two players, and both players move.
• Walkovers do not count.
• A match a player retired from, or lost for conduct, counts as a win for the other player, with the score as it was recorded. Where the score was kept as played and the winner had won no more games than the player who retired, it counts as the narrowest win.
• A correction, or a result removed, works every rating in that sport out again from all the results.

Each result shows how far it moved each player's rating, for example +20 and -20.

Where you see it

• Club rankings (Club › > Competitions › > Club rankings): each sport's players highest first, with their rating, rated matches and last five results. Choose the sport at the top. Press a name for their results in that sport. A player who has entered but not yet played shows 1500 and no matches.
• My matches: your own rating in each sport you have played.
• On a competition's Players tab and on the ladder, beside each entry; on a request to enter, beside the ratings already in that grade.
• In the convener's list of members to add, beside each name.

The TVs never show ratings.