Leagology Rankings · player ratings for grassroots sport
Every match counts
Not a leaderboard you can talk your way onto. A number that only moves when you actually play someone — in a room, with somebody marking it.
Live right now
There's one board so far.
Real people, real results, updated the moment a match finishes. Every one of these started with somebody putting a tournament on.
Follow one player
Matt started on 1500. Like everyone.
This is every rated match since, in order. Watch where it jumps, and where it does the opposite of what you'd expect.
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1
Beat John Davis 2–0 · +214
First match — we barely know you yet, so it moves a lot.
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4
Beat Karl Peachey 2–1 · -20
Won, and went down — expected to win by more.
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7
Beat Oliver Basi 2–1 · -21
Won, and went down — expected to win by more.
How it works
Everyone starts on 1500.
Win and it goes up, lose and it goes down — everyone knows that bit. What nobody expects is how much it depends on who you beat.
A real result
Beat someone better than you and it counts for more.
Matt Towers went in 341 points ahead and was expected to win. That's the whole reason it cost them 21 — and paid Oliver 89.
Now the other way round
Matt Towers beat Jay Shine, who was 235 points below them. +32.
Same win. Nothing like the same reward — because everyone expected it.
You can win and still go down.
It isn't only whether you win. It's how much of the match you win, against who. Beat someone you were expected to beat easily, but only just, and you can drop a few points. Lose narrowly to someone much better, and you can go up. A draw works the same way.
In a game played in frames, every frame counts, not just the last one. In a sport that only counts the result, it's simply win, draw or lose.
A real match
Adam Butler beat Luke Powell 3–2.
Adam went in 205 points ahead and was expected to win by more than that. Winning 3–2 was a little less than expected, so Luke gained from losing.
Try it yourself
What if?
Pick two players off the board and a score. See what would happen to both numbers — worked out exactly the way the real board does it. Nothing is saved.
The part nobody is told
At first we're guessing. Then we're not.
Your first few series move your points a long way, because we barely know you. Play more and it steadies — same result, smaller move.
Which is why two players can walk out of the same match with different-sized changes.
We're surer about one of them than the other. Nothing is taken off anybody — you're both measured against what we expected, and whoever we know less about moves further.
The obvious question
"We play each other every week. Does that count?"
No. And that's the point.
A number only means something if it can't be fiddled. So it moves for one reason: a match at a real event, with somebody marking it. Not the games you played on Tuesday, not a quick one after work, not you and your mate agreeing you're both brilliant.
Which means when someone tells you their number, it happened. Somebody was there.
The other obvious question
"I missed a couple of months. Why have I dropped?"
Your rating hasn't moved. Your points on the leaderboard have.
Your rating is how good we think you are, and only your results move it. Your points are your rating, minus 50 for every month your venue runs a series that counts and you don't play.
Why: a rating only goes down when you lose. Without this, the safest way to stay top would be to stop playing. That's not fair on the people who turn up every week.
What it doesn't do:
- It never changes how a match is scored.
- It never takes you off the leaderboard.
- Missing one month is about the same as losing one match.
Coming back: each series you play wins back up to three missed months. Beside your points on the leaderboard you'll see what you missed and what it cost, like "−100 away Aug–Sep".
Behind the number
It isn't just a win and a loss.
Somebody marks the match as it happens. In pool that's every pot, every miss, every foul, every break that goes nowhere — so afterwards there's a record of how you actually played, not just who won. Play enough and it starts describing you.
Pool's marker is built and running. Darts is next, then the racket sports — each one catches the things that matter in that game.
The tiers
5 levels. Bronze to Diamond.
You don't get a level for turning up. Until we've seen enough of you, you have a rating and no badge. Climb high enough, you move up. Drop too low, you move down.
Bronze
Where everyone starts.
Silver
You're winning more than you're losing.
Gold
Consistent. Dangerous. The players around you know your name.
Platinum
You're beating good players regularly.
Diamond
You have to play like it and keep playing like it — 30 matches minimum. Almost nobody is here.
What we're starting with
Cue sports first.
Then darts. Then rackets.
We'd rather do a few games properly than list fifty and mean none of them. Each one gets its own marker, built for how that game is actually scored. That's the plan, unless your room needs something else. Tell us.
Getting on the leaderboard
There's a tournament on at The Weston Arms.
It's full — but people drop out, and the waitlist is real. Get on it and every frame you play still counts.
Get in the draw
WA Shootout — Sunday 18 October.
- The Weston Arms
- Everyone plays — it's a draw, not a ladder
- Every frame counts towards this board
- Someone always drops out
Run a venue? Let us handle your rankings.
It makes more sense. Padel centres, sports halls, clubs, pubs — if people play there, it should have a board.
- The draw, the scores and the board, done for you
- Your own page, with what's on and who's best
- Found by people searching for a game near them
Play somewhere that hasn't got a board? Tell us where — there's nothing for you or the venue to sign up to.