How FGrank ratings work
Purpose
FGrank is a free, public ranking of Street Fighter 6 players, built from every set played at start.gg tournaments around the world.
Every set counts
Ratings come from individual sets, not just final placements. Beating a strong player moves your rating more than beating a newcomer, and losing to a newcomer costs more than losing to a top player. New results are loaded every morning.
A bracket counts once it’s finished on start.gg and has at least 8 entrants. Team and doubles brackets don’t count. Disqualifications aren’t counted as wins or losses.
The rating system: Glicko-2
FGrank uses Glicko-2, a well-tested rating system also used in chess. Everyone starts at 1500. Next to every rating is a ± number: how sure the system is. It shrinks as you play more sets and grows when you take a break. Results are processed in weekly batches.
You appear on the leaderboard once your ± drops to 90 or less and you’ve played at least 5 counted events, and you stay on it after that. Until then your profile is marked “provisional”.
LANs are worth more
Every set played in person counts 1.2× as much as an online set, wins and losses alike: LAN results are rated higher stakes. On top of that, wins at in-person events earn a bonus on the points you gain.
| Event | Bonus on wins |
|---|---|
| Online | None |
| Local LAN (in person) | +10% |
| Regional LAN (64+ entrants) | +20% |
| Major (400+ entrants) | +25% |
| Premier (Evo-level events) | +30% |
Online brackets reward finishing on top: the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishers get +15%, +10% and +5% on the points they gain from wins in that bracket.
Side brackets, like redemption or amateur brackets, count at 50% in both directions and don’t get a LAN bonus.
Not every bracket counts the same
How much a bracket counts also depends on who runs it. Brackets from long-running, well-known organizers count fully; brackets from newer organizers count less, for wins and losses alike. That keeps made-up brackets from inflating anyone’s rating.
| Organizer | Bracket counts |
|---|---|
| Trusted | 100% |
| Established (8+ brackets over 60+ days, 50+ different players in total) | 90% |
| New | 75% |
In-person events with 64+ entrants always count fully, whoever runs them. Side-bracket weight applies on top.
Inactivity
If you don’t play a counted event for 6 weeks, your rating drops 15 points a week, up to 150 in total, and never below 1500. It stops as soon as you play again, and you never drop off the leaderboard.
Seasons and prizes
Your normal rating never resets: it runs continuously across seasons, and season dates don’t affect it.
Each season has its own season rating: everyone starts it at 1500 on the season’s first day, and the same sets move it, with the same rules except decay. To play for the season’s prizes, enter the season on the season page: you need an account with your start.gg account linked. Prizes go to the entered players with the best season ratings, once they’ve played the season’s minimum number of counted events and their rating is settled. The season page has this season’s prize pool, exact rules, key dates and live standings.
Where players are from
A player’s region comes from the country on their start.gg profile. If that’s blank, it’s the country where they’ve played the most in-person events.
Data
All results come from start.gg’s public API. FGrank stores only what the rankings need: tags, team prefixes, results and the country on public profiles. Spotted a wrong result or a duplicate player? Email contact@fgrank.pro.