Every player starts with a rating of 1000. After a team match with a winner and real players on both sides, everyone who played at least 2 minutes gains or loses up to 32 points. How many depends on the result and on how strong the other team was. Beating a stronger team earns more, and losing to a weaker one costs more.
Which matches are rated
- Team game types with a clear winner. Draws and matches whose result is unknown don’t count.
- Real players on both teams. Bots aren’t rated and don’t count.
- Only players who were on a team for at least 2 minutes of the match.
- Game types where the two sides are deliberately uneven, such as hide-and-seek modes, are left out.
How the points move
- Team strength. Each team’s strength is the average rating of its players.
- Expected result. From the gap between the two averages, the system works out how likely each team was to win. Equal teams are 50/50. A team rated 400 points higher is expected to win about 10 times out of 11.
- Change. Each player moves by 32 × (actual result − expected result), where a win is 1 and a loss is 0. A surprise win earns close to 32; an expected win earns only a few points.
- Time on the pitch. The change is scaled by how much of the match you played, from a quarter up to the full amount.
This is the Elo system used in chess, applied to teams.
Reading a rating
- 1000 is where everyone starts.
- 1200 unlocks the Elite achievement and 1400 unlocks Grandmaster.
- The number of rated games is shown next to the rating. A rating from a handful of games can still move a lot.
- The Top rated leaderboard only includes players with 5 or more rated games.
For a player with several names, the hub shows the rating of the name with the most rated games.
Questions
Why didn’t my rating change after a match?
The match may have had no winner, no real players on the other team, a game type that isn’t rated, or you played less than 2 minutes of it. Some servers don’t publish team scores, so their results can’t be rated.
Does my own score affect my rating?
No. Ratings only use whether your team won, how strong both teams were and how long you played. Your score counts towards points and MVPs instead.
Is rating the same as level?
No. Level only goes up, with everything you do. Rating goes up and down with results. See Levels and ranks.