| Result | Points |
|---|---|
| Won the match | 3 |
| Lost the match but won a set | 2 |
| Lost without winning a set | 1 |
| Did not play the match | 0 |
The exact numbers for the season you are viewing are always spelled out in the Standings footer, since an owner can change them when creating a season.
Choosing a different table
Not every sport scores a round the way tennis does, so the season screen offers the tables clubs in your sport actually publish. The list changes when you change the sport. Pick one and the line underneath says it back in words. Squash clubs are offered a point for every game won; tennis clubs are offered more for a straight-sets win than for one that went to a decider.
If none of them is yours, choose Set them myself and nine numbers open up:
- Win, and Win in a decider if you want a closer match to be worth less. Leave the second blank and a win is a win.
- Per set won (per game, in squash, badminton and pickleball), counted for both players.
- For playing: a point each for turning up, which a walkover does not earn, because nobody played it.
- Loss, won a set and Loss, none won.
- Played every match: a bonus added at the end of the round to anyone who played everybody they were down to play.
- Ran out, nobody won: what each side scores for a match that ended with the court booking. Leave it at nought and they still keep any per-game points from the games they won.
- Nobody played: what the side who did not turn up scores.
Changing the points re-adds every score in the season. The table moves; the results do not.
How the table is sorted
Level on points is the most argued-about row in a box league, so the order is a choice and the table's footer prints it. Four to pick from, filtered to the ones your sport plays:
- Points, then the match between them (the default, and what every league here has always used): points, the match between the two of them, set difference, game difference, matches won.
- Points, then who turned out most: the same, with matches played moved up above set difference. Clubs use it to reward turning out.
- Games won, then points: the table is ranked on games accumulated across the season, with points as the tie-break. Tennis and padel only, because in squash, badminton and pickleball the numbers in a score line are rally points.
- Points, then fewest sets conceded a match: points, the match between the two of them, then sets conceded divided by matches played. Padel only, and it is the one order that uses an average rather than a total. A box where one pair has played twice and another five times is a normal month. A pair that has played nothing sits at the bottom of that step rather than the top.
Whichever you pick, two players level on every count are separated alphabetically, and when a box is finished the winner’s line says which rule actually decided it. You can change the order part-way through a season: it re-sorts the table and changes no result, because the table was always worked out from the scores rather than stored.