Two numbers
This is the ledger, not the rating
Your league also has a League Rating, which answers a different question and is allowed to disagree with this one.
The League Rating asks
How good are you right now?
Zero-sum and self-erasing. Every point you win is taken off an opponent, nothing accumulates, and each offseason pulls everyone back toward average. It is a running estimate of present strength, not a record of what you have done.
The all-time standing asks
How much have you accomplished?
A ledger, in wins above an average manager. Every part is rate × opportunity rather than a rate alone, so a great half-season can only earn a little — there was only a little to earn. Nothing is ever given back.
The four parts
Everything, measured in wins
Not a weighted 0–100 index. The total is a real quantity, so +12 means twelve wins' worth of value over whoever else would have held the slot — and nothing is min-maxed against your league's best, which in a twelve-person league would compress everybody else into the same score.
Winning
(win% − .500) × gamesWins above a .500 manager. Folds win rate, raw wins and longevity into one figure with no weight to argue about.
Going 9-5 once is +2.0. Holding .560 across ten years is +8.4.
Scoring
z-score vs. that season's field × 1Each season's points per game, measured against the field that played it. Season-relative because scoring settings change between eras, and comparing raw career points across them ranks managers by which years they happened to play.
A season you outscored the league by a standard deviation is worth +1.0.
Hardware
9 × titles + 2 × finals + playoff berthsWhat you actually won. A berth is priced per season against how much of the field got one — a league that widened its bracket made every later berth easier, and a flat price would quietly pay the modern era more for the same finish.
A title is worth +9 on top of the +2 for reaching the final, because in a league that plays all year for one trophy, winning it has to outweigh a very good regular season.
Rating
(peak rating − 1,500) ÷ 25Your best League Rating — peak, emphatically not current. Current regresses toward average at every season boundary including the ones after a manager leaves, so peak is the one figure that means the same thing for someone who stopped playing years ago as for someone playing now.
A peak of 1,750 is worth +10.0.
The trophy
What a championship is worth, priced twice
The clearest illustration of the difference between the two systems. Both prices are deliberate.
Career value pays
+11.00
Wins above average, permanently, plus that season's playoff berth. It never regresses and never expires.
The rating pays
+1.6 to 3.2
A title run typically moves a rating 40–80 points, and only the part that sets a new peak reaches your career value at all. A quarter of the rest is gone by next season.
The one price that moves
A playoff berth is worth what it excluded
Scale what the league's own settings made cheaper; never scale the trophy. That asymmetry is the whole rule.
Who ranks
4 seasons, or still in the league
A manager ranks once they have played 4 seasons, or if they are still in the league. The second clause is what lets the first be a flat number: someone playing now is not a sample of a career, they are a career in progress, and the page their league-mates read every week is exactly where they belong. Everyone short of the bar still appears below the table with their record intact — an archive that disappears someone who really did play is lying about the league.
Career questions
What people ask when they see the table
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Settle it with the whole record
Every season your league has ever played, folded into one all-time table — with the arithmetic published, so the argument is about the football.
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