NOTHING BEHIND THE CURTAIN
A score you can understand.
The rules, the evidence, and the result behind every point.
Competitive ranking
Competitive points come from finished results published by an event organiser. They are separated by sport and distance band, with category and country filters. A category winner earns 1,000 event points.
- For each published event and category, find the fastest eligible finish time.
- Calculate 1,000 × winner time ÷ athlete time, rounded to one decimal place.
- Keep finished, published results from events in the last 365 days. Cancelled events, DNS, DNF and disqualifications are excluded.
- Take each athlete’s 4 highest results within the selected sport and distance band, and add the points.
- Equal totals share a ranking position. Equal category finish times share an event placing.
For example: if the category winner finishes in 5 hours and an athlete finishes in 6 hours, the athlete earns 833.3 event points. Course difficulty and field strength are not estimated by this formula. The score describes relative event performance, and more eligible results can increase the total up to 4 counting performances.
Method versions, proposals and recorded decisions →
Published corrections
Organisers save result changes before publication. Existing published results remain available while those changes are pending. Publication updates results and creates a fresh ranking snapshot in one database transaction. Earlier snapshots are available through the publication selector. Every result has an immutable public version history with correction reasons, and athletes can request a private review from their result record. Publishing does not add duplicate contributions.
Personal progress
Manual and file-imported activities contribute to personal history, recorded distance, elevation and elapsed time. They do not enter the official competitive ranking. A file import is a source record, rather than proof that an activity was independently verified. Editing imported performance metrics changes the evidence to self-reported.
Race difficulty
Verified finishers and starters with a published DNF can rate the specific event edition and course version from 1 (easiest) to 5 (most difficult). Each athlete has one response, which they may update. Organisers may exclude a response through the moderation controls.
The raw average and response count are shown alongside an adjusted public score: (sum of overall ratings + 12 × 3) ÷ (response count + 12). This published prior prevents a small number of responses from dominating the score. The rating reflects participant perception; distance, terrain and elevation remain separate course facts.
League standings
Only published match scores count. Each competition stores its own win, draw and loss points. Teams are ranked by points, scoring difference and scores for. Equal sporting totals share a place; names only order their display. Football, basketball and rugby use their own match validation; basketball requires a winner.
Volleyball uses best-of-five sets, 25 points per set and 15 in the fifth, with a two-point margin. A 3–0 or 3–1 victory earns 3 standings points; a 3–2 victory earns 2 and the losing team earns 1. Rugby Union applies a bonus for four tries and another for a loss by seven points or fewer. Rugby League is a separate competition sport.
Privacy and optional consent
New profiles and activities are private by default. Public activity pages show a route outline without geographic coordinates. Original activity files and account exports are available only to the athlete. Optional insights and contact consent may be withdrawn independently of event registrations and official result records.