Swiss Standings (with tie-breakers)
Match points with proper Swiss tiebreakers — Buchholz and Sonneborn-Berger — so a tie is broken on who you had to play.
match_points + Buchholz/SB tiebreakers
Best at
Actual Swiss-paired tournaments, where those tiebreakers are the standard and mean something.
Where it misleads
The tiebreakers only make sense when pairings followed the standings. Two-sided matches only.
How it works
Swiss Standings implements the classic Swiss tournament format with sophisticated tiebreakers. Players accumulate match points, with ties broken by opponent strength measures.
How it works: Win = 1 point, Draw = 0.5, Loss = 0 (configurable). When players are tied on points, tiebreakers like Buchholz (sum of opponents' scores) and Sonneborn-Berger (score-weighted results) determine the ranking.
When to use it: For Swiss-format tournaments where fair pairings and strength-of-schedule tiebreakers are essential. Standard in chess and go tournaments.
Watch out for: Specifically designed for Swiss pairing systems. The tiebreakers only make sense when pairings are based on current standings (not random). Only works for 1v1 or team-vs-team.