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// Race Index
// Season 2017
// Battle of the Brands
// EuroTour
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Welcome to the SUP Racer World Rankings, the most accurate way to follow and analyse this great sport of ours. The top 100 men and top 50 women are ranked on their best five performances at the biggest races of the past 12 months.
Our ranking system uses a complex algorithm that includes the all important Race Index formula, which rates every event in the world based on the elite level of talent competing. Only races that score 20% or more on the Race Index will count for the World Rankings.
Take a look at the Season 2017 Star Ratings for more info on this year’s world rankings race schedule.
Top 100 men | Year-end rankings
- Last updated December 6th
- There are currently 30 races from the past 12 months counting towards the World Rankings (see: Race Index)
- Showing the Top 100 out of 607 total paddlers in the database
- Maximum five best results count
Top 50 women | Year-end rankings
- Last updated December 6th
- There are currently 28 races from the past 12 months counting towards the World Rankings (see: Race Index)
- Showing the Top 50 out of 194 total paddlers in the database
- Maximum five best results count
[See also: Season 2017 Star Ratings]
The SUP Racer World Rankings system uses a complex algorithm to provide a fair and accurate ranking of the world’s best paddlers:
- Every race in the world receives a unique ‘Race Index’ score from 0-100%. This score is based on how many of the current top paddlers (top 50 for men / top 20 for women) are competing. The more competitive a race, the closer to 100% its Race Index will be.
- Paddlers with a higher ranking inside the Top 50/20 add more weighting to the Race Index score than the lower ranked paddlers.
- Each race offers a unique amount of points. The higher the level-of-competition at a race (and therefore the harder it is to win) the more points that are on offer.
- An event’s Race Index score is combined with the Base Points Table to produce the total points on offer at each race. The race winner receives the same amount of points as the Race Index score, while the other finishers receive a diminishing percentage. See the Base Points Table for a full explanation.
- A race must have a Race Index score of at least 15.0% to be included in the SUP Racer World Rankings.
- After an event is more than 12 months old (or when it comes around again the following year; whichever is shorter) it will be dropped from the system.
- I don’t believe a blanket points system can work in a sport as fragmented as SUP racing, so I engineered this Race Index system to be the most fair and accurate world ranking possible, one that rewards those paddlers who perform better in the bigger races.
Currently there are 30 men’s and 28 women’s races from the past 12 months counting towards the SUP Racer World Rankings:
MEN’S RACE INDEX
WOMEN’S RACE INDEX
The ‘Race Index’ score detailed above is only half the equation though:
- The Race Index percentage is multiplied with a base Points Table to produce the unique ranking points each of the Top 50 paddlers receive at every major race.
- This Points Table is designed to give a fair distribution of points for the entire Top 50 finishers while still rewarding those who finish near the front.
- Just like the rest of this system, the Points Table was created from scratch specifically for the SUP Racer World Rankings – I closely studied the ranking systems used in a dozen different professional sports and designed my own that fits the unique world of SUP racing. What I’ve come up with is a mix of professional tennis, surfing, golf, cross country and half a dozen other major world ranking systems.
- If you want to see exactly how the Base Points Table converts to real world ranking points, scroll right down and you’ll see the final points distribution from the 2015 Carolina Cup.
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Example of How Points Are Calculated At Each Event
Below is a real example of how the Ranking Points are calculated for an event.
The final points are a combination of ‘Base Points’ and the event’s ‘Race Index’ score.
These are results from the 2015 Carolina Cup (Men’s Elite Graveyard Race).
The 2015 Carolina Cup was one of the most competitive races of all time. The event scored a Race Index of 63.5% after attracting a lot of the world’s Top 50 men.