Ratings and rankings
Your Scoreper rating shows how well you play compared with the difficulty of the layouts you play. The Scoreper server calculates it from your Ranking Games with the same rules for every player.
What your rating shows, by the number of qualifying rounds
| Status | Qualifying rounds |
|---|---|
| Building your rating | 0–2 qualifying rounds: no rating is shown yet |
| Provisional | 3–9 qualifying rounds |
| Established | 10 or more qualifying rounds |
| Inactive | No qualifying round in 365 days: kept in your history, not on active leaderboards |
Scoreper ratings use Scoreper's own scale. They are not PDGA or UDisc ratings and cannot be converted to them.
Your personal rating uses all your qualifying Ranking Games, solo rounds included. Only you can see it. Fully reviewed rounds imported from Scoreper V1 can count towards it too.
Your competitive rating uses only rounds that another registered player confirmed. It is calculated in exactly the same way and can be shown on leaderboards and your profile if you choose.
Choose Ranking Game before you start. Play every hole of the published layout, include every penalty, and sync the round when you are online. The score entry style and disc tracking make no difference.
Normal Games, practice, doubles, team games, match play and skins never affect ratings; they stay in your history and statistics. An abandoned Ranking Game stays in your history without invented scores. If 3 of your latest 20 Ranking Game starts were abandoned, a note is shown for review – it is not a penalty.
Another registered player who played the same round confirms the exact final scores in their own app – from a confirmation request or when they join a shared round. If the scores are corrected later, the earlier confirmation no longer counts and a new one is needed. You cannot confirm your own round, and a guest name never confirms anything.
Confirmed results are labelled Player-confirmed. That does not mean an official, certified or tournament-verified result.
Your latest 20 qualifying rounds count. Every result in them counts, good and bad – none is dropped as an outlier. Each round is weighted by the holes played and by its age: its weight halves every 180 days, counted from your newest round, so your rating does not change just because time passes.
Each round gets a round rating. Both the layout's difficulty and your score are scaled to 18 holes. One stroke better than the layout's difficulty is worth 10 points. Your rating is the weighted average of your round ratings, rounded to a whole number.
Example: the layout's difficulty is 54 strokes for 18 holes and you play 50. Your round rating is 700 + 10 × (54 − 50) = 740. On a 9-hole layout, 25 strokes counts as 50.
Difficulty is not par. It is fitted from player-confirmed results of people who play several layouts: layout difficulties and player abilities are estimated together, each player and layout weighted equally, and one reference layout keeps the scale fixed. A layout gets a difficulty when it has 30 confirmed results from at least 10 different players and shares at least 3 players with a connected layout. Only the same physical configuration of tees, baskets, pars and lengths is compared.
Until then the round stays in your 20 and the rating shows Difficulty being established – Scoreper never invents a number. When layout difficulties are refined, your rating history is recalculated from the same results.
Best-round leaderboards compare results on exactly the same layout and hole revisions, with shared places for ties. Recent layout form uses your latest 20 rounds there and needs 3 plays; hole consistency needs 5 plays. The field average gives every player the same weight.
Trend compares your newest 5 plays with the 5 before them and appears after 10 plays. Fewer strokes means improvement.
Your personal rating and unconfirmed solo results are never shown to anyone else. Public participation is off by default. When you turn it on, others see only your display name, country and player-confirmed results. Turning it off hides you; it never lets you choose which scores count.
Players who block each other do not see each other on leaderboards. Deleting your account removes your rating data.
Your personal and competitive ratings, confirmations and leaderboards are in the Scoreper app.
