Skoryd Skill Rating (SSR)

Your Skoryd Skill Rating — SSR for short — is a single number that estimates how good you are, and, unlike a stats average, it's relative to who you played. Beating a stronger opponent moves it up more than beating a weaker one; losing to a stronger opponent costs you less than losing to a weaker one.

Your SSR shows on your profile, with a separate rating for each sport and for singles and doubles. So next time you're at the boards, go ahead and ask: "What's your SSR?"

The number and the ± band

Your SSR is shown like 55 ±4.

• 55 is the rating itself, on a roughly 0–100 scale where the middle of the pack sits near 50.
• ±4 is our confidence band — how sure we are. A rating of "55 ±12" means "probably around 55, but we don't have much to go on yet."

The band starts wide and gets tighter the more you play. This is the honest part most rating systems hide: after one or two games we simply don't know you well yet, and the band says so.

Provisional vs. established

While your band is still wide, your rating is marked Provisional — it will swing around as you play your first games. Once you've played enough for the band to tighten, the Provisional label drops and the number is one you can trust. There is no fixed number of games you have to hit; it's based on how settled your results are.

What moves your rating

• Who you beat. Wins over higher-rated players move you up the most.
• How you play as well as whether you won. A close win counts less than a comfortable one — but only up to a point. Running up the score past a clear win doesn't keep paying off, so there's nothing to farm.
• Time off. If you don't play for a while, your band widens again — we get a little less sure until you're back on the boards.

Doubles

In doubles, your team's result updates both partners, but not evenly — the partner who did more of the scoring gets more of the credit for a win (and is cushioned a bit on a loss). So carrying a match helps your rating more than being carried.

How it's different from your production stats

Your production stats (like cornhole's points-per-round and OPR) measure how you threw — your raw output. Your skill rating measures how good you are against real opponents. A player can put up big numbers against weak fields; the skill rating doesn't reward that, because it only cares about results relative to the competition. The two answer different questions, and both live on your profile.

See also How stats work and Cornhole stats & OPR.