How standings are ordered
Round-robin and pool standings use the same rules everywhere — the division page, the venue scoreboard and the seeding for a playoff — so the order never differs from one screen to another.
The order, step by step
- Winning percentage (wins divided by matches played). Teams that have played fewer matches aren't penalized — 1-0 and 2-0 are both 100%.
- Head-to-head — only when exactly two teams are tied on winning percentage. The team that beat the other ranks higher. It shows a small H2H tag beside the team that moved ahead this way.
- Point differential (points scored minus points allowed, across all games).
- Points against — fewer points allowed ranks higher.
- If teams are still level, a fixed internal order is used so everyone sees the same table.
When head-to-head does not apply
- The two tied teams haven't played each other, or they split their matches (for example a double round robin where each won once) — the tie goes straight to point differential.
- Three or more teams are tied on winning percentage — head-to-head is skipped for the whole group and point differential decides. (Otherwise a three-way circle, A beat B, B beat C, C beat A, would have no answer.)
What counts
- Only completed matches count. A forfeit counts as a win for one team and a loss for the other, with no points added to either side's point totals.
- In flexible leagues, a result a player reported but the opponent hasn't confirmed (or that is disputed) doesn't count — not for wins, not for head-to-head.
Pools and playoffs
In pool play, teams are ranked within their own pool using the rules above. When a playoff is seeded from pool results, all pool winners are seeded first, then all runners-up, and so on, so teams from the same pool are kept apart. Teams that finished in the same spot in different pools have never played each other, so they are compared by winning percentage, then point differential, then points against.
