Resume ranking

Ranked on who you beat, and where.

Penta scores every game a team plays on two things: how good the opponent was, and where the game was played. Beat good teams, especially on the road, and you climb. Lose to bad ones and you fall. The points add up, and the team at the top has the best body of work.

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NCAA FootballRankings → All 138 FBS teams · updated Monday mornings · seasons back to 1998 How it works
NCAA BasketballRankings → All 365 Division I teams · updated every morning · back to 2022–23 How it works
NBARankings → All 30 teams · regular season · updated every morning · back to 2023–24 How it works
NFLRankings → All 32 teams · regular season · updated every morning · back to 2024 How it works
NHLRankings → All 32 teams · regular season · updated every morning · back to 2023–24 How it works
MLBRankings → All 30 teams · regular season · updated every morning · back to 2024 How it works
MLSRankings → All 30 clubs · regular season · updated every morning · draws count halfway How it works
European SoccerRankings → 161 top European clubs · league, cup and European games · updated every morning How it works

How a game is scored

Start with the opponent’s rank from Massey Ratings: the composite of dozens of computer systems for college sports, Massey’s own rating for the pros and soccer.
Adjust for where it was played. On the road the opponent counts as better than their rank (×0.7); at home, worse (×1.3).
Score the result. A win is worth +25 against the best possible opponent down to +1 against the worst. A loss is the mirror: losing to the best costs 1, losing to the worst costs 25. In soccer, a draw lands halfway between.

It is a resume ranking, not a power ranking. It does not guess who would win next week; it adds up what each team has already done. Margin of victory doesn’t count.

Game results, schedules and ratings come from Massey Ratings.