Your level is one number for how good you are, from 1.0 to 10.0. It comes from your results across everything the club runs: boxes, the ladder, tournaments and club nights. Nobody types it in, and nobody can change it by hand.
You will find it on your own screen under Where you stand, and at the top of any member’s record.
What one level apart means
- Half a levelA close game.
- One levelThe higher player wins about two matches in three.
- Two levelsA mismatch. You will both know it by the third game.
That is the whole point of the scale. It is there so you can find someone worth playing.
It appears after three results
After one match the number could still move a long way, so we hold it back. From three results it is worth reading, and until then your own screen says how many you have.
Everyone is treated the same. A member with one or two results is not on the levels list either, and the club sees how many are waiting rather than their names.
Confident, fairly sure, not sure yet
Beside your level is a word for how sure we are of it. The levels list draws the same thing as a bar: the wider the bar, the less sure we are.
Not sure yet. You are new, or have played very little. Your next few results will move it a long way.
Fairly sure. Enough results to be in the right area. Still moving.
Confident. One result will nudge it, not swing it.
So somebody with six results can sit near the top of the list. The wide bar beside them tells you to read it as a guess.
Take a season off and the word slips back. Your level does not drop while you are away. We just become less sure it is still right.
How a result moves it
We count the games, not just who won. A thrashing moves you further than a close win.
Beating someone above you moves you up more than beating someone below you.
If somebody you beat turns out stronger than we thought, that win counts for more. Your level can move when you have not played.
They say less about you on your own, so they move you less and it takes more of them to be sure.
Two full sets are more games than a first to four, so they tell us more. That is how a Fast4 tournament, a ladder on match tiebreaks and boxes on two sets all feed one number fairly.
Your number starts from the box you were first put in. Your results move it from there. If you were put in too low, it does not wait for promotion: win well and it climbs ahead of your box.
How far you got counts for nothing. We read the matches you played, not the round you reached. Win your group and lose the semi-final, and that is three wins and a defeat like any other.
It is ours, and it is not a WTN
This is your club’s own measure, from your club’s own results. It is not a WTN, an LTA rating or an ITN, and it does not convert into one.
Those scales work because players move between clubs. Your club’s results only compare your members with each other, which is exactly what you need to pick a fair match here and means nothing anywhere else.
What it is not for
- No prize. There is no level table to win, no season and no reset. The moment a number has a prize on it, people play the number: ducking the strong newcomer, sitting out while it looks good.
- No doors. Nothing in the app is locked or unlocked by your level.
- Your club decides who sees it. Levels can be turned off for members in Settings. Staff can always see them.