How Ranking Points are Calculated

Points are awarded to each player for a win or a draw. Points are calculated for each faction. To calculate a factions win score is a fairly simple process:

Take their current win rate as shown in our weekly AoS Meta article and times this by 5:

e.g. Lumineth Realm-Lords: 51.02% x 5 = 2.6

This is the expected number of wins that faction should achieve in a 5 game GT. Next divide 100 by this value to give a score for each win.

e.g. Lumineth Realm-Lords 100/2.6 = 39.2 per win.

When a player has finished their tournament multiply their result (draws are counted as 0.5) by the score.

e.g. a Lumineth player achieves 2 wins and a draw; 2.5 x 39.2 = 98 points

Finally, anther factor is then applied to this result, which is the size of the event. A players score will be multiplied by the following amounts for the specified number of players at that event:

Events where there are further rounds to decide a winner (i.e. the knockout format at LVO), will be based on the first 5 games of that event, any knockout games will not add to a players ranking score.

Likewise any events where the GT consists of 6 rounds instead of 5, the initial score calculation will multiply a factions win rate by 6 instead of 5. This then gives a predicted outcome for a six round event when 100 is divided by the result.

Each Battlescroll (3 month period) the win rates are reset and the scores for the next 3 months restarted. So depending on when the tournament took place will determine the points per win for that faction. Taking Gitz as an example, going 4-1 with them at a tournament before their new battletome dropped would score a player a lot more points than after their battletome dropped and they hit the 60%+ win rate mark.

Based on this, you’ll find our entire player rankings for the 12 months between July 2022 and July 2023.