How the Ladder scores are Calculated
An
Explanation of how the ladder scores are calculated
To
calculate the ladder scores, we use a spreadsheet that has been used
with success by other pickleball clubs.
The majority of the
score you get each week is based on the percentage of points you won
vs the points that were available to be won. If you want to
move up the ladder, the most important factor is to win as many
points as you can in each game.
The second, much smaller part
of the score is a bonus based on games won, with a small factor to
reward people who win games on higher ranked courts.
Part
one – the percentage of points won out of points available to be
won
Your
total score is calculated on a percentage basis for the week.
For
example:
Round one, if you played 3 games and got 29 points
out of a possible 33 and
Round two, if you played 3 games and got
24 points out of a possible 33
Then you would have 53/66 which
equals 80.30 percent
Part
two – the bonus
The
additional bonus points are calculated as follows:
For every
win on court #1, 3.00 points are awarded; 2.75 points for wins
on court #2,......down to 1.75 points for wins on court #6.
This
has the effect of giving greater value to players on the higher
ranked courts, and over time accentuates the difference in the levels
of play, meaning that over time people will end up having a better
chance of playing with similarly skilled players.
So,
for example, if a player won a total of 5 games on court 1, his bonus
for that week would be 5 x 3 = 15.
If a player won 5 games on
court 6, his bonus for the week would be 5 x 1.75 = 8.75.
There
is a maximum 3 game bonus per round. If you win 4 games in a 5 player
court, you will be given a bonus based on 3 games. This is so
that players in a 5 player court do not get an extra advantage of
being able to earn more bonus points.
Adding
it all together
Our
player in part one above (with a base percentage of 80.30) would get
a different overall weekly score depending on which courts they
played on, and how many games they won.
Examples:
Played
all games on Court One and won 3 in the first round and 1 in the
second round 80.30 + (3 x 3) + (1 x 3) = 92.30
Won 3
games on Court Two and 1 game on Court One 80.30 + (3 x 2.75) +
(1 x 3) = 91.55
Won 4 games on Court Five and 2 games on Court
Four 80.30 + (3 x 2.00) + (2 x 2.25) = 90.80
(remember
you only get credit for a maximum of 3 wins per round)
The
maximum possible score in a given week is 118 (if you won all of your
games on Court One)
Averaging scores over the weeks.
Every
week you play, your score will be averaged with all of your previous
week's scores to give you an overall cumulative ladder score. We
anticipate that there will be a lot of volatility at the beginning of
our ladder season, and that people will zip up and down the ladder,
until things start to average out and we should end up with people
playing in games where they are matched with players of a similar
skill level.