How the player rating works

The home page lists the best players in Queens by a single number called Rating. It runs from 0 to 100, and it exists because no one stat settles who the best player is. Someone can lead the borough in 3-dart average and be ordinary at cricket. Someone else wins 70% of their games without topping either list. Rating puts the three together.

The three ingredients

• 3-dart average, for 01 games.
• Marks per round, for cricket.
• Win rate: games won out of games played, in singles, doubles and triples alike.

All three come from the regular season, across every league and every season a player has thrown in.

How the number is made

The three stats are on different scales. A 3-dart average might be 45, an MPR 1.9 and a win rate 0.61, and you can’t add those up. So each one is turned into a percentile first: the share of eligible players you are ahead of on that stat. Beat nine out of ten players on 3-dart average and your percentile for it is about 90.

Your rating is the plain average of the three percentiles.

Rating = (3-dart average percentile + MPR percentile + win rate percentile) ÷ 3

Here is a made-up player to show the sum:

(91 + 77 + 84) ÷ 3 gives a rating of 84. A rating of 100 would mean being the best in the pool at all three, and 50 means the middle of the pack. When two players are tied on a stat, they share the same percentile.

Who is eligible

The home page list needs 100 or more career regular-season games, and a player must have both an 01 average and a cricket average. The games minimum is there for a reason: over ten games anyone can get hot, and a short run would otherwise sit above players who have held their level for years.

The percentiles are measured against the other eligible players, not against everyone who has ever thrown a dart in Queens. That makes it a ranking among regulars. A rating of 50 there is a better player than the borough’s median, because the people who lasted 100 games tend to be the stronger ones.

Hot shots use the same idea

The hot shot on each league’s card is picked the same way, with one change: the pool is the players who threw in that league’s latest week, and the stats are that week’s only. So a hot shot is the player who was furthest ahead of the room on the night, across 01, cricket and results. Where a league doesn’t post match-by-match scores, the card uses the season so far.

What it doesn’t tell you

• Strength of opposition. A win counts the same in every division. A 60% win rate in the top division is harder to earn than in the bottom one, and the rating doesn’t adjust for that.
• Partners. Win rate includes doubles and triples, so who you throw with shows up in it. The partner table on each player page separates that out.
• Form. It is a career number. A player who has improved a lot in the last year is still carrying their early seasons. The season-by-season chart on the player page is the place to look for that.

For a head-to-head, the matchup tool is a better guide than comparing two ratings. Here is how it works.