A lot of other systems use a national ranking system. What about pilot rankings for X-wing? Kind of like a DCI number. Start with the rankings of Worlds, and factor in store championships, regionals, and nationals. Have a Europe and North America league that tracks your performances. That way when you go to a tournament you are initially Swiss paired by your ranking.

Well, funny you should mention. We are actually working on something exactly like that.

We are actually looking for people that are interested in participating in the building of the site etc. If you are interested shoot me a PM.

There's the ELO, which has become more active since the latest Reddit event.

http://www.challengeboards.net/boards/standings/2167

But for that you have to be playing on Vassal

I have a ton of matchups in listjuggler. would be an interesting exercise to run an ELO calculation on all of them, assuming everyone starts at 1500. there are a lot of closed pools of players though; see the interesting story of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Bloodgoodhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Bloodgood.

You'd also need to disambiguate common names, and handle misspellings.

You'd also need to disambiguate common names, and handle misspellings.

and thus was born callsigns and internet handles!

Over here (some countries in Europe), a lot of tournaments (not only for xwing but warhammer, 40K, and many more obscure games) use the http://www.tabletoptournaments.net/website for tournament registration and results.

This allow it to publish a ranking for each game by country or at the european level.

Basically you gain points for your 5 best tournaments (better place at a larger tournament is better than a worse place at a smaller tournament with a decreasing value over time).