A Badminton ladder is a ranking of Badminton players in order of their performance. We evaluate players performance based on their match results submitted. A player can challenge other players on the same ladder who are within her/his permitted range.
Badminton ladder is the best way for a group of players who often hit with each other to keep track of their match results. It also make the game more fun and competitive.
Badminton tournament, like any other tournaments, is a group of players compete with each other to select the best player. Badminton tournament can be round robin, playoff or mixed.
Badminton club, network, world are kind of a ladder with some differences:
When signing up for OTW, you are given a certain points according to the skill level claimed. Your points will increase when you win a match and decrease when you loose.
How many points increase or decrease in each match depends on the adjustment factor "K" and the difference between your points and your opponent's. It doesn't depend on the margin of win or lose
Ex: We have 4 players A, B, C, D in our ladder
A has 500 points
B has 500 points
C has 900 points
D has 100 points
Suppose K factors for all of those players are the same: 220
If you are interested in the math behind it, you can start from here: Elo Rating System
NOTICE:
Double has their separate points and they are calculated in a very similar way as single points, using the same Elo rating system.
When two players, say P1 & P2, play with each other as a double for the first time, the double (P1, P2)'s points is the average of those two players' single points.
After that, the double (P1, P2)'s point is updated based on the double's match results is the same way as single points are calculated.
Note:
Example:
Four players P1, P2, P3, P4 have 500, 600, 700, 800 single points respectively. If they play a double match for the first time where (P1, P2) upsets (P3, P4) then their single and double points will be calculated as below:
Before match:
After match, according to Elo guideline:
We recommend to create a club instead of a ladder. You can create tournaments and child ladders inside your club if needed. If you already created a ladder, you can convert it to a club by hitting the button in tab "Info".
Fill in the form. You can leave most of them as default. There are some fields you might need to pay attention to:
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