Methodology

The ranking uses the common elo rating formula. However unlike normal elo ratings, we take into account the following: Match Importance, Series Score, and Region Weights, all these will be explained below.

Remember that elo ratings are a good measure of a team's past performances, but they don't tell the future on who will win, if this is to be used in articles and arguments, maybe use this to determine who's the favourite to win.

The following are the k-factor used across all leagues (qualifiers/leagues/mct):

Regular Season - 100

Playoffs - 150

For MSC and M-Series the following are used:

Wildcard - 100

Group Stage - 150

Playoffs - 200

This k-factors reflect match importance and gives weight to matches of importance.

2-0 and 2-1 victories are obviously different. Our elo rating formula factors in a score multiplier depending on the game score per series. The following formula is used to calculate the score multiplier:

Game Winner Score / Total Games

To determine the initial elo of regions, we first made a ranking on the past six international tournaments. This can also be found in Region Rankings.

We patterned the Region Rankings to UEFA coefficients where we assigned points depending on their series results in MSC and M-Series. There is also a decay where more recent tournaments weight higher than older tournaments.

For Best-of-1s

• 1-0 = Winner gets 1 point, Loser gets none

For Best-of-3s

• 2-0 = Winner gets 3 points, Loser gets none

• 2-1 = Winner gets 2 points, Loser gets 1 point

For Best-of-5s

• 3-0 = Winner gets 5 points, Loser gets none

• 3-1 = Winner gets 4 points, Loser gets 1 point

• 3-2 = Winner gets 3 points, Loser gets 2 points

For Best-of-7s

• 4-0 = Winner gets 7 points, Loser gets none

• 4-1 = Winner gets 6 points, Loser gets 1 point

• 4-2 = Winner gets 5 points, Loser gets 2 points

• 4-3 = Winner gets 4 points, Loser gets 3 points

This applies for Group Stage and Knockout Stage. For Wildcards, points earnt is halved.

After this we also assigned points based on a team's final ranking.