BWF Ranking Points Calculator
Find the BWF World Ranking points for a result and add up your ranking total from your best 10 tournaments
What is a BWF Ranking Points Calculator?
The BWF World Ranking lists players and pairs in order of ranking points. Points are won by playing in graded tournaments: the higher the level of the tournament, and the further a player or pair goes in the draw, the more points they get. This calculator shows the points for a result and adds up a ranking total from several results.
Worked example: reaching the semi-final (and losing) at a World Tour Level 4 (Super 500) tournament is worth 6,420 points, a quarter-final exit is worth 5,040 points, and winning the title is worth 9,200 points.
Ranking totals follow the BWF rule that if a player or pair has played 11 or more tournaments in the last 52 weeks, only their 10 highest results count. With 10 or fewer, all of them count. There is a separate ranking list for each of the five events: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles.
How to Use This Calculator
Why BWF Ranking Points Matter
The World Ranking decides how players are seeded in tournaments. It is also the basis for qualification to the Olympic Games and the World Championships, so ranking points have a direct effect on a player's draw and their chances of qualifying.
Points stay on a player's ranking until the next edition of the same tournament (same grade and level) is held, or for 52 weeks, whichever comes first. This is why a player has to keep earning points at tournaments throughout the year to stay in the ranking.
The rankings are published every Tuesday on the BWF website. If two players or pairs have identical points, the one who has played in the most tournaments is ranked higher.
?Frequently Asked Questions
Each graded tournament has a points table by round. Your points depend on the level of the tournament and how far you went in the draw. Your ranking is the sum of your results from the last 52 weeks, and if you have played 11 or more tournaments, only your 10 highest results are counted.
Yes. BWF publishes one points table that is used for all five events (men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles). Each event has its own ranking list.
A player or pair that had a bye in the first round and lost in the second round gets the first-round loser's points. A player that had a bye in the first round, won in the second and lost in the third gets the third-round loser's points. A wildcard entry that loses in the first round receives no ranking points. The full list of cases is in BWF Statutes Section 5.3.3.1, clause 4.2.
In a tournament with group play, a player or pair gets the points for their finishing position, equal to the same finishing position in a knockout tournament. At the World Tour Finals, 3rd place in the group gets 8,900 points and 4th place gets 7,800 points in the table used by this calculator.
Grade 4 regional closed tournaments and team tournaments (such as the Thomas, Uber and Sudirman Cups) have extra rules. Only one Grade 4 tournament counts and only for players ranked below 250 in singles or 200 in doubles, and team tournaments use a separate calculation based on average points and opponents' points. See BWF Statutes Section 5.3.3.1 for the details.
Under the BWF rules, the Asian Championships are graded as World Tour Level 2, the European Championships as Level 4 and the Pan American Championships as Level 5. The Oceania and African Championships are graded as International Challenge.
BWF publishes the World Rankings every Tuesday. The points tables can also be revised by BWF, so check the current BWF Statutes for the version in force.