What Are the STIGA World Ratings and Ratings Central?

The STIGA World Ratings is a table tennis rating list that is open to anyone, anywhere. The STIGA World Ratings is hosted by Ratings Central, a state-of-the-art, fully automated, online rating system that is extremely easy for event directors to use while providing organized, detailed information to players.

Regardless of whether your club currently has its own ratings or rankings, now you can join the STIGA World Ratings and produce ratings for your club, thus allowing your members to find out how they rank not only within your own club, but also in your state, country, and even internationally.

You can submit results from almost any type of event that you or your club runs, including tournaments, league matches, and club matches. There are no fees to submit results from table tennis events to the STIGA World Ratings. In particular, there are no sanction fees, no rating fees, and no player membership fees.

Finding your new rating and those of your friends is simple thanks to our attractive, easy-to-navigate website that provides a wealth of information. Ratings and match results are easy to browse and copiously hyperlinked. There are a multitude of options for searching for, and listing, players, events, clubs, and matches. Your results will be posted alongside results from international competitions from countries such as Sweden, Germany, Japan, and France.

Data entry is a snap thanks to the easy-to-use Windows apps that we provide (you can also use a Mac if you have Virtual PC). Simply click a button to automatically download a rating list from our website. Select the players that are playing in your event. To enter a result, click a button and highlight the names of the winner and loser. To submit the results to Ratings Central, click a button and the event is automatically submitted. Within minutes of submission, Ratings Central will process your event and post the results on the Ratings Central website. Ratings Central then emails you and the players to let you and them know that the results and ratings are on the website.

Ratings Central uses a sophisticated rating algorithm (developed by David J. Marcus, Ph.D.) that fairly and accurately rates all players, from world-class to beginner, from those who compete regularly to those who compete infrequently.

Join the dozens of clubs and directors and thousands of players that are already a part of the STIGA World Ratings. See the Information for Event Directors page to sign up.