Ranking points and seeding lists

Points come from results in tournaments that the federation has marked as counting for the ranking.

The chain from a result to points

1. The federation marks a tournament as counting for the ranking, and says which age group in that tournament belongs to which ranking category.
2. The ranking category points at a point scale and carries a weight factor. A big championship uses a scale that gives many points; a small local tournament uses a smaller one.
3. The scale converts finishing position + number of participants in the class into points. The same position gives fewer points in a small field than in a large one.
4. The points are stored on the player, for that class, with the date of the tournament and a description of it.

Points from other classes

Federations let points travel between classes, and the rules differ:

• A youth or junior player also gets the points they have earned in senior classes; a veteran player also gets senior points. This is why a strong junior can show a high total in a youth class.
• In the Norwegian federation, girls' classes also count points earned in the corresponding boys' classes.
• In the Swedish mixed class, a share of the player's points from the men's and women's classes is added on top of the mixed points. On the public list this is shown as two numbers in the Own + other classes column.
• Some youth classes are deliberately excluded from inheriting points. That exclusion is in force in the Swedish beach ranking.

Parental leave

A player registered as being on parental leave keeps the points from the periods before the leave instead of dropping down the list. Such players are marked with an asterisk after the name on the public ranking list.

The number shown on a registration and used for seeding is normally not a player's lifetime total. It is the entry points: a limited selection of the player's best recent results.

• Swedish beach volleyball: the five best results within a window of the last ten competition periods. The public list says this in full at the top of the table, for example "Entrypoints inkluderar 5 bästa resultat från och med TP16 2025 till och med TP16 2026".
• Norwegian beach volleyball: the five best results from the last 365 days, counted backwards from the registration deadline of the class (or the tournament start date if the class has no deadline of its own).

A team's entry points are the sum of the entry points of the players on it, rounded.

When two teams have the same total, one further value decides the order:

• Norwegian tournaments: the team whose best player has the highest ranking points — the sum of all of that player's results in the last 365 days, not just the five that make up the entry points.
• Other tournaments: the team whose best player has the most entry points.

If two teams are still level after this comparison, the organiser decides the order between them.

Entry by time instead of points. A ranking category can say that entry into a full class is decided by when the team registered, or by when the registration became complete, rather than by points. When that is set for a class, the order in the registration list follows the clock and not the ranking, even though the points are still shown.

In table tennis, every played match moves points between the two players — there is no placement scale. The list therefore only changes when the federation performs a run ("körning").

Doing a run (federation administrators only)

1. Open the ranking section and go to the list of runs.
2. Played series matches must first have been imported into the ranking system. Matches up to the date you give are imported.
3. Enter a date and a comment for the run.
4. Choose Förhandsvisning to see what the run would produce without changing anything, or Kör to perform it for real.

A run calculates points for matches played since the previous run, up to and including the day before the date you gave. Runs happen roughly monthly in practice; the software does not schedule them.

A run is performed in the background. You get an e-mail and an on-screen notice when it finishes. While it is working the page shows "Körning pågår..." with the start time. A run that never finishes is stuck and can be deleted from the same page — except the very first run, which can never be deleted.

If the same match has been imported twice, the page warns you before you start and offers a link that repairs the duplicates.

Rules that shape the numbers

• New players get a starting rating from their first matches: the average of the opponents' points in the two best wins and the two worst losses. Until the player has four qualifying matches the rating is preliminary. A player with no qualifying matches at all gets a default value based on age.
• Inactivity: a player with no counting match for a year has points deducted, but never falls below the floor the federation has set.
• A single run cannot move a player more than a set maximum number of points.
• Matches against foreign players, and walkovers, put only a small number of points at stake.
• Players aged 11 and under are hidden from the public list.

Normalisation is a separate, yearly action on its own page ("Årlig normalisering/omräkning av spelares rankingpoäng"). It rescales everyone into a new band of point values, keeping the order but compressing or stretching the scale. Like a run, it can be previewed first.

Seeding — deciding which team is number 1, 2, 3 in a class and distributing the seeds evenly across the groups — is done in the tournament scheduling program, not on the Profixio website. The website shows the result.

In the scheduling program

• Seeding is switched on for the tournament as a whole, with options for whether seeding numbers are fetched from the official ranking list and whether the seeding number should be shown in front of the team name.
• Per category you can instead enter your own seeding numbers, which override whatever the official list says.
• A seeding list per category shows the points and lets you adjust the numbers; remember to save.
• Automatic seeding, for one category or all at once, builds the seeding from the points, and the teams are then distributed into the groups in a snake pattern following the seeding order.
• The current ranking points are loaded from Profixio, for one category or all at once, and the points and seeding can be exported to Excel.

Reloading, and losing manual changes

According to the federation documentation for beach volleyball:

• The first time a tournament is activated, all players and their ranking data are loaded, and the seeding list and the positions in the groups are set.
• Activating the tournament again after the registrations have changed reloads the seeding and resets the changes the organiser has made.
• If a whole team is deleted, the seeding data has to be reloaded manually. Other changes do not require this.
• When a player is looking for a partner, a vacant player is inserted into the team. When a real player joins, the vacant player is replaced the next time the window is opened or the data is reloaded manually.

On the website

Once teams have seeding numbers, they appear as "#2" in front of the team name in the group lists and on match cards, and the team list for a group is sorted by seeding number, with unseeded teams after the seeded ones in alphabetical order.

Play keys, which control who meets whom, and the rest of the match programme are covered on the match generation and scheduling page.

A tournament only produces ranking points if the federation has registered it as a ranking tournament. A tournament administrator cannot do this for their own tournament.

The registration is either created automatically when the federation approves the tournament application, or made by hand by a federation administrator, who gives the tournament a description, a date, a year and a type, and connects each age group in the tournament to a ranking category.

What changes in the tournament once it counts for the ranking

• Teams and registrations show entry points and ranking points, and the points button appears.
• The category list gets a Ranking Klasse column showing which of the federation's ranking classes each category maps to, with a link to it.
• Category codes can no longer be edited, because the code is what ties a category to a ranking class. Bulk editing of categories is switched off as well.
• The ranking-points endpoint of the tournament API starts returning data for the tournament.

If a category shows no points at all while others do, the usual reason is that its code does not match any ranking class of the federation, or that the matching ranking class is not marked as having a ranking.

Three federation-level pieces decide how much a result is worth. All three are maintained by the federation — not by tournament organisers.

Where they are edited

• Ranking classes are maintained in two places. On the federation's own ranking pages a federation administrator can both add and edit classes; to take a wrongly created class out of use, untick that it has a ranking, and ask Profixio support if it has to be removed entirely. In the tournament-settings list of ranking classes, a federation administrator can edit an existing class.
• The levels and categories page shows the categories and the point scales behind them, but it is read-only — it is a reference view, not an editor.
• The federation maintains the point scales and can copy an existing scale as the starting point for a new one.

Do not edit a scale that has already been used. The federation documentation is explicit about this: changing or deleting a scale that tournaments have already used affects the whole point system. Create a new scale for future use instead, and leave the old one alone. Nothing in the software prevents you from editing a scale in place — the safeguard is the routine, not the system. The intended way to retire a scale is to mark it inactive, which stops it being offered on new tournaments while leaving old results untouched.

Beach volleyball and badminton (placement-based rankings)

A federation administrator opens the player search in the ranking section, finds the player and opens their ranking page. It shows the player's points per class and every result behind them, with description, class, date, placing and points.

Only federation administrators get the button for registering new points. Opened by a club user, the screen is limited to that user's own club, and the federation decides whether club users can open it at all.

Beach volleyball and badminton (placement-based rankings)

Registrer nye poeng opens a form with: tournament (or "register manually"), class, type, placing, number of participants, points, date, registration date, description and category. The points are calculated for you from the placing, the number of participants and the category's scale — the form tells you whether the points shown were calculated or typed in — and you can overwrite the calculated value. The same screen has a delete button for removing a wrongly registered result.

Table tennis (match-based ranking)

Individual point totals are not edited. You correct the underlying match data — there are separate screens for correcting a match and for handling duplicate matches and duplicate players — and then perform a new run. There is also a screen for registering manual results.

Profixio can hand a tournament's ranking points to another system. The tournament API has a ranking-points resource that returns, per team, the team's total entry points, the value used to sort the seeding, and each player's individual points. A single team can be fetched on its own.

Two limits apply:

• It only returns data for tournaments that have been registered as counting for the ranking. For any other tournament the answer is empty.
• It needs a webservice account with access to that tournament — an API key issued by Profixio. The federation decides who gets one, so ask your federation first.

How to request and use a webservice account is covered on the integrations page.

Points in some classes but not others

1. Does the category's code match one of the federation's ranking classes, and is that ranking class marked as having a ranking?
2. Does the class have a ranking category with a seeding method? Without one, the points columns are not shown for that class.

Seeding numbers are wrong in the match programme

3. Seeding numbers come from the scheduling program, not from the website. Reload the ranking points and the seeding there.
4. If a whole team was deleted, the seeding data has to be reloaded manually.
5. Manual seeding changes are lost when the tournament is activated again after the registrations changed — re-enter them after the reload, not before.