e-Rankings | SCII

The World Rankings evaluate all tournaments of the past twelve months. A tournament counts if it features a prize pool of $500 (or equivalent amount in another currency) or more. Hardware-prizes are not included since it is difficult to evaluate their worth. The size of the prize pool determines the amount of points that is distributed among all participants. The higher the prizes, the more points will be awarded. The number of points is capped at 30,000 when the prize pool of a tournament reaches one million dollar.

The points are then assigned to all teams and players that participated in a tournament or league. For math nerds, the exact formula for the distribution is 0.4082 * (Rank to the power of -1.387) with the exception of 25 percent of all points going to the winner of an event. For normal people: Take a look at this table for the detailed distribution.

		Examples for events with a prize pool of...
Rank	Percentage of points	$1,000,000	$100,000	$1.000
1.	25%	7500	750	237
2.	15,6%	4682	468	148
3.	8,9%	2668	267	84
4.	6%	1790	179	57
5.	4,4%	1314	131	42
6.	3,4%	1020	102	32
7.	2,7%	824	82	26
8.	2,3%	685	68	22
9.	1,9%	581	58	18
10.	1,7%	502	50	16
11.	1,5%	440	44	14
12.	1,3%	390	39	12
13.	1,2%	349	35	11
14.	1,1%	315	32	10
15.	1%	286	29	9
16.	0,9%	262	26	8
17.	0,8%	241	24	8
18.	0,7%	222	22	7
19.	0,7%	206	21	7
20.	0,6%	192	19	6
21.	0,6%	180	18	6
22.	0,6%	168	17	5
23.	0,5%	158	16	5
24.	0,5%	149	15	5
25.	0,5%	141	14	4
26.	0,4%	133	13	4
27.	0,4%	127	13	4
28.	0,4%	120	12	4
29.	0,4%	115	11	4
30.	0,4%	109	11	3
31.	0,3%	105	10	3
32.	0,3%	100	10	3
33.	0,3%	96	10	3
34.	0,3%	92	9	3
35.	0,3%	88	9	3
36.	0,3%	85	8	3
37.	0,3%	82	8	3
38.	0,3%	79	8	2
39.	0,3%	76	8	2
40.	0,2%	73	7	2
41.	0,2%	71	7	2
42.	0,2%	69	7	2
43.	0,2%	66	7	2
44.	0,2%	64	6	2
45.	0,2%	62	6	2
46.	0,2%	60	6	2
47.	0,2%	59	6	2
48.	0,2%	57	6	2
49.	0,2%	55	6	2
50.	0,2%	54	5	2
51.	0,2%	52	5	2
52.	0,2%	51	5	2
53.	0,2%	50	5	2
54.	0,2%	48	5	2
55.	0,2%	47	5	1
56.	0,2%	46	5	1
57.	0,1%	45	4	1
58.	0,1%	44	4	1
59.	0,1%	43	4	1
60.	0,1%	42	4	1
61.	0,1%	41	4	1
62.	0,1%	40	4	1
63.	0,1%	39	4	1
64.	0,1%	38	4	1
65.	0,1%	37	4	1
66.	0,1%	37	4	1
67.	0,1%	36	4	1
68.	0,1%	35	4	1
69.	0,1%	34	3	1
70.	0,1%	34	3	1
71.	0,1%	33	3	1
72.	0,1%	32	3	1
73.	0,1%	32	3	1
74.	0,1%	31	3	1
75.	0,1%	31	3	1
76.	0,1%	30	3	1
77.	0,1%	30	3	1
78.	0,1%	29	3	1
79.	0,1%	29	3	1
80.	0,1%	28	3	1
81.	0,1%	28	3	1
82.	0,1%	27	3	1
83.	0,1%	27	3	1
84.	0,1%	26	3	1
85.	0,1%	26	3	1
86.	0,1%	25	3	1
87.	0,1%	25	2	1
88.	0,1%	25	2	1
89.	0,1%	24	2	1
90.	0,1%	24	2	1
91.	0,1%	23	2	1
92.	0,1%	23	2	1
93.	0,1%	23	2	1
94.	0,1%	22	2	1
95.	0,1%	22	2	1
96.	0,1%	22	2	1
97.	0,1%	21	2	1
98.	0,1%	21	2	1
99.	0,1%	21	2	1
100.	0,1%	21	2	1
101.	0,1%	20	2	1
102.	0,1%	20	2	1
103.	0,1%	20	2	1
104.	0,1%	20	2	1
105.	0,1%	19	2	1
106.	0,1%	19	2	1
107.	0,1%	19	2	1
108.	0,1%	19	2	1
109.	0,1%	18	2	1
110.	0,1%	18	2	1
111.	0,1%	18	2	1
112.	0,1%	18	2	1
113.	0,1%	17	2	1
114.	0,1%	17	2	1
115.	0,1%	17	2	1
116.	0,1%	17	2	1
117.	0,1%	17	2	1
118.	0,1%	16	2	1
119.	0,1%	16	2	1
120.	0,1%	16	2	1
121.	0,1%	16	2	1
122.	0,1%	16	2	0
123.	0,1%	15	2	0
124.	0,1%	15	2	0
125.	0,1%	15	2	0
126.	0%	15	1	0
127.	0%	15	1	0
128.	0%	15	1	0

The only exception of these rules are tournaments that end before on winner is determined - for example Starcraft II GSL Code A which ends with seven 'winners'. In a case like that, the players and teams are awarded as much points as if they would have lost the following match. For example if a tournament ends in Round of 8 and thus has 8 'winners', each of them gets the points for the 5th place in the respective tournament category, since you would have been fifth if you had lost in Round of 8.