Rating system
One rating. Every match counts.
Padel Fast gives every player a single 0-10 rating that updates from everything you play ranked — a casual doubles match, an americano night, a league fixture or a full tournament. It reflects everything you play, not just league fixtures.
What is the Padel Fast rating?
Your rating is a number from 0 to 10 that reflects how you've actually played. You set your starting level when you sign up, and from there it's earned on court: win and it rises, lose and it falls — and how much depends on how strong your opponents were, not just on the result. You'll occasionally see ratings written as points: 5.0 is the same as 500 points.
Earned on court — only real, ranked results ever move it
One number across every club, format and event you play
It measures who you beat, not how often you play
The ladder
Beginner
0.0–3.0Intermediate
3.0–5.0Advanced
5.0–7.0Expert
7.0–9.0Elite
9.0–10.0How one match changes your rating
Before the rating moves, the system makes a prediction: from the gap between the two sides it works out how likely each is to win. Your rating then moves on the difference between what was expected and what actually happened. Beat a higher-rated pair and you gain a lot; beat a much lower-rated pair and you gain a little.
Upsets pay: winning as the underdog earns extra, and losing as the big favourite costs extra.
In doubles your opponents count as the average of their pair — but you and your partner are each rated on your own number, so the lower-rated partner gains more from the same win.
The higher your rating, the less a win pays and the more a loss costs. Staying at the top means keeping on winning.
Only the result of each match counts — win, draw or loss. The score decides the standings on the night, not the size of the rating swing.
Try it: the rating exchange
Drag the ratings and see the exchange change. This is the same maths the app uses after every ranked match.
Elsa
5.8
Oliver
6.4
+0.12
Elsa wins
-0.14
+0.02
Draw
-0.02
-0.08
Oliver wins
+0.07
Tournament nights count — round by round
There's no separate tournament rating. When an organizer finishes a ranked event, every completed round you played is rated as its own match — an americano round, a mexicano pairing, a knockout tie, a league fixture. Your rating change for the night is simply the sum of those matches, applied when the event is finished.
Two roads, one rating
Ranked match
Elsa & Astrid vs Oliver & Jack
6–3 · one rated matchTournament night
Club americano · 12 players
7 rounds · every round rated5.9
Every format feeds the same rating — americano, mexicano, winner's lane, beat the box, knockout, leagues and more.
You're measured against the opponents you actually faced, round by round — not against your final placing.
Everyone is measured at one fixed rating for the whole event's calculation, so the order results are entered never changes the outcome.
Unranked events still show in your match history — they just leave your rating untouched.
Your first rating
When you first sign up to Padel Fast, you set your own starting rating to match your current level — so you begin where you actually play, not at the bottom of a queue. From there the system fine-tunes it quickly: in your first ranked events your rating moves up to 1.5 times faster than an established player's, easing back to normal speed as you approach thirty ranked events. A few good nights are enough to correct a first guess that was too modest — or too bold.
You set your starting rating at sign-up — pick the level you play at today
Faster movement early on, so your rating finds your true level in a handful of events
After that it settles, and only your results move it
For organizers
Ratings make the first round fair
Turn on rating-based seeding when you create an event and the opening round groups players of a similar level onto the same court — strongest court first — instead of a random draw. Later rounds already regroup on the night's results, so the whole event stays competitive from the first serve.
Available where courts play independently: mexicano (including teams and mix), winner's lane and beat the box
Level decides who shares a court — who partners whom stays random, so repeat nights never repeat
Seeding only applies when at least three quarters of the field carry a rating (in mixed events, each gender counts separately); otherwise the draw stays random
Players without a rating are placed mid-field — unknown doesn't mean weak
You can always shuffle back to a fully random draw
A season on the ladder
Here's how a season can look: Elsa starts the autumn at 5.0, grinds through club nights, wins an americano against a stronger field, drops a surprise loss — and ends the season a genuinely better player, with the rating to show it.
Rating questions, answered
Yes. Lose a ranked match and you lose points — more if you were the favourite, fewer if you were the underdog. Draws nudge ratings slightly in favour of the lower-rated side. Unranked games never move your rating in either direction.
Yes. In a ranked event every completed round you play is rated as its own match against the pair you actually faced. Your rating change for the event is the sum of those rounds, applied when the organizer finishes the event.
You're rated individually, even in doubles. Your opponents count as the average of their pair, but your own gain or loss depends on your own rating — the lower-rated partner had less expected of them, so the same win is worth more.
No. A 7–6 win moves your rating exactly as much as a 6–0 win — only the result of each match counts: win, draw or loss. The score still decides the standings on the night; it just doesn't scale the rating exchange.
Organizers can reopen a finished event to fix a result. When they finish it again, rating changes are recalculated from the corrected results and your rating history shows the updated numbers.
Any event created as ranked — from a single doubles match to a full tournament or a league fixture. Unranked events still appear in your match history but never move your rating, and ladder challenges move your ladder position rather than your rating.
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