KPB ranking system

The KPB ranking system is the current system used to rank nations participating in the World Cup and related events. The name KPB comes from the initials of the two nations involved in its creation. It was developed by Kaze Progressa during World Cup IX, with the principal modification made shortly afterward by Bedistan to ensure that Cup hosts did not suffer an unnatural loss of rank due to not participating in the qualifying stages.

For each competition, the total number of points (three per win, one per draw) earned by each team is divided by the maximum possible number of matches. It is then multiplied by some constant, depending on the type of competition and how long ago it occurred. The numbers are finally added together, and the nation with the most KPB points is officially considered the best in the world.

Competition multipliers

These are the constants by which all points-per-match are multiplied for each competition before being added together.

World Cup

World Cup proper

• Most recent Cup: x8
• Previous Cup: x4
• Cup before that: x2

Qualifying

• Most recent Cup: x4
• Previous Cup: x2
• Cup before that: x1

Cup of Harmony

• Most recent CoH: x1.5
• Previous CoH: x0.75
• CoH before that: x0.375

Baptism of Fire

• Most recent BoF: x1
• Previous BoF: x0.5

Under-21 World Cup

Note that the KPB ranking system has nothing to do the Under-21 World Cup any more. The Under-21 results were removed from the KPB rankings forumla is it was deemed unfair that that nations with large amounts of free time could gain rank increases for 'free'. The U21 ranking system uses RPR.

Other modifiers

Nations hosting a World Cup are not required to qualify. However, there would be a large loss of ranking for the hosts due to receiving no points for the qualifying round. Therefore, hosts are automatically credited with receiving double the number of qualifying matches in qualifying points, as this was determined to be a reasonable estimate of how most hosts would perform in qualifying.

A newer addition is that all nations that successfully qualify for the World Cup are credited with an additional five qualifying points, equal to a win and two draws. This was to prevent the phenomenon of nations gaining a higher ranking through participation in the Cup of Harmony than if they had qualified for the World Cup itself.

External Link

The KPB Rankings Excel Sheet is regularly updated and is available at this location. Please note this is a direct link to a Microsoft Excel file.