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 Majors and RTT Elo?

Accepted Answer

Dataslate, Regional, Edition, and All-time each split into two ladders by event size: Majors (5+ rounds and 20+ players) is the main proving-ground ladder, and RTT (smaller events and locals below that) is rated separately so a handful of casual games doesn’t get weighted the same as a major tournament result.

Warhammer 40k Elo Rankings

Warhammer 40k Elo Rankings