It's a new season for WFTDA competition, and with it we've had the first new official WFTDA rating for the season ( https://wftda.com/rankings-january-31-2019/) Throughout the year, however, those ratings and rankings will change - not just as the teams play more games, but also because the weighting of their past games will alter. Games will "age out" of the rating if they become more than 1 year old; and games which become more than 6 months old will count only 50% as much.

All the locations with teams in our top 100 (larger stars mean more than one team is in the list - for example, 2x4 and Sailor City in Buenos Aires).

Speedy Convalesce, Head NSO of Mannheim's Delta Quads, as well as many other things, is here to help us better visualise what's likely to happen at Playoff selection, however. This ongoing series will report the ratings and rankings of the top 100 WFTDA teams, calculated as if we were at June 30th 2019 [the ranking which will be used to decide Qualifications and seedings into both WFTDA Playoffs, and the Continental Cups]. Whilst we can't predict the future, this will give the best guess of what teams need to do to qualify, based on what they've already done.

As well as attaining a minimum ranking, teams also need to play at least 4 bouts within the eligibility period (December 2018 to June 2019), and we'll be tracking their progress on this measure, too.

The list: (# is number of bouts contributing to the ranking, whilst #El is the number of bouts contributing to their eligibility for playoffs). We'll colour teams to indicate when they've played their minimum number of games for eligibility, but as yet, it's too early for anyone to have met this. We've eliminated any teams which have played less than 2 games since July 2018 here.

[We plan to update this list each time WFTDA release a rating and ranking until Playoffs selections]

As you can see, the re-weighting isn't just a technical thing, it produces real effects, visible at the very top of the table. For now, the focus on "more recent games" helps to push Rose above Victorian in our rating here; but these closely matched teams are likely to jostle a lot as the year progresses.