Question 1

What is Elo in Warhammer 40k?

Accepted Answer

Elo is a rating system that ranks Warhammer 40,000 tournament players by skill using their wins, losses, and the strength of the opponents they faced. Beating a higher-rated opponent gains more rating than beating a lower-rated one, and losing to a lower-rated opponent costs more than losing to a higher-rated one.

Question 2

How is Warhammer 40k Elo calculated?

Accepted Answer

This site runs Glicko-2, an Elo variant that also tracks each player’s rating deviation (RD) — how confident the system is in that rating. Every player starts at 1500. Ratings move after each recorded tournament game based on the result and the rating gap between opponents, and the leaderboard ranks players by a conservative rating − 2×RD score rather than raw rating, so unproven or inactive ratings don’t outrank proven ones.

Question 3

What is a good Elo rating in Warhammer 40k?

Accepted Answer

Most players cluster near the 1500 starting rating. A rating above roughly 1700 marks a strong, consistently winning tournament player, and the top of the Dataslate and All-time ladders on this site typically sits in the 1900–2200+ range.

Question 4

What do Dataslate, Regional, Edition, All-time, and TTS Elo mean?

Accepted Answer

They are five separate Warhammer 40k Elo ladders computed from different subsets of games: Dataslate covers only the current balance dataslate, Regional filters to a single country in the current edition, Edition covers the whole current 40k edition, All-time includes every tournament game ever recorded, and TTS covers Tabletop Simulator games only. A player can hold a different rating and rank on each ladder.

Question 5

What is the difference between Competitive, RTT, and Teams Elo?

Accepted Answer

Dataslate, Regional, Edition, and All-time each have three independent circuits: Competitive covers non-team events with 5+ rounds and 20+ players, RTT covers smaller non-team events and locals, and Teams uses individual board results from team events. Team games never change Competitive or RTT player Elo. Teams Elo also adjusts the pre-game expectation for the faction or detachment matchup, using only non-team results completed before that game.

Question 6

How are previous rank and best rank calculated?

Accepted Answer

Rank history follows Wednesday–Tuesday weeks and is frozen at Wednesday 00:00 UTC. Movement shows the change made during the latest completed week, or the current week once new results arrive. Best rank is the player’s strongest completed weekly position rather than a temporary mid-week peak. On Dataslate ladders, best-rank records only begin once the dataslate is at least three weeks old.

Warhammer 40k Elo Rankings

Warhammer 40k Elo Rankings