Methodology
The Brief Rating, explained
An overall and six attributes for every rated player, worked out each week from their match log and Elo. Here is exactly what each number means — and what it does not.
The Brief Rating is ours. We invented it. It is not an official padel ranking, it is not endorsed by any tour or federation, and no player's standing depends on it. The official world ranking and the Elo rating shown beside it are external measures; this one is our own reading of the same match data.
How to read it
- Overall runs 45 to 99, relative to the other rated players on the same tour. It is not a percentage and not a world ranking.
- The six attributes use the same 45–99 scale, each one a rank among rated players rather than a raw total.
- A dash means too small a sample to make a claim — never a low score.
- Updated weekly, from the past twelve months of matches.
The six attributes
- WinWin rate rank
- How often they win. Measured over every match they have played in the past twelve months.
- FrmForm rank
- Recent results against what the odds expected. Their last twenty matches, weighted toward the most recent, compared with what each pair's Elo said should happen — so beating stronger opponents counts for more than beating weaker ones.
- BigBig matches rank
- Semi-finals and finals only, main draw. Needs at least three of them before we will put a number on it.
- ConConsistency rank
- How reliably they beat the opponents they are expected to beat. Only matches where Elo clearly favoured their pair count, and at least five of those are needed.
- ExpExperience rank
- How much padel they have played: matches, tournaments and titles, compressed so the busiest players do not run away with it.
- SynSynergy rank
- How the current partnership does against what the pair's Elo predicted. Needs at least five matches with the same partner — below that we show a dash rather than invent chemistry.
Questions
Is this an official rating?
No. It is ours, and it is unofficial. Nothing on any tour depends on it. We publish it because reading the match data is more interesting than reprinting a points table, not because anyone recognises it.
What is the scale? Is 45 a bad score?
Every number runs from 45 to 99 and is relative to the other rated players on the same tour, never a percentage. The six attributes are ranks — where a player sits among rated professionals on that one measure. The overall is not a rank: it is a blend of Elo and world ranking that keeps the real distances and is stretched onto the same 45-to-99 scale, so the gap between the best pair in the world and the next reflects how far apart they actually are. Either way the best in a field reads 99 and the weakest 45. So a 45 on an attribute means last among rated professionals at that one thing, which is a long way from bad padel.
Is the overall an average of the six attributes?
No, and this is the easiest thing to get wrong about the card. The overall comes from Elo and the official world ranking only. The six attributes sit beside it and describe how a player wins; they are not inputs to it. A player can have a high overall and an unremarkable set of attributes, or the reverse.
Why does a card show a dash?
Because we have not measured enough to say anything. Each attribute has a minimum sample, and below it we print a dash rather than a number. A dash is not a low score; it means no claim.
What do the card colours mean?
The frame follows the official world ranking, not our rating, because a reader can check it: gold for the top ten, teal for the top fifty, a light frame down to 150, and a plain one below that or for anyone with no world ranking at all.
How often does it change?
Weekly, after the new rankings land. Ratings are not reproducible once matches age out of the rolling twelve-month window, so each stored week records which version of the formula produced it.
Formula version 1.1. A player needs at least 10 matches in the past twelve months to be rated at all; below that we show their ranking and record instead.