Skill rating

Shown on a player's profile, in the awards leaderboard (a question mark means provisional), and next to each player in the Companion panel. It is HOTSAnalyst's own Elo-style rating, built only from games uploaded here. It is not Blizzard's MMR and can't be compared with it.

• Everyone starts at 1500.
• Games are replayed in the order they were played. For each one we compare the two teams' average ratings to work out how likely each side was to win. Beating a stronger team moves you up more than beating a weaker one, and losing to a weaker team costs more than losing to a stronger one.
• Everyone on a team moves by the same result, scaled by how settled their own rating is: new players move fast (40 points at most per game for their first 10 games), then more slowly (28, then 20 from 30 games on).
• Until a player has 10 games the rating is labelled provisional, because it hasn't had time to settle.
• Ratings are recalculated from all games at most every five minutes, so a new upload can take a few minutes to show.

Limits: it only sees uploaded games, so someone with few uploads has a thin rating. It doesn't look at the game mode or at individual performance, only wins and losses, and it can't tell a full-party team from a group of strangers. Treat it as a rough guide.

Accounts created before 2027 get a 🌟 Early adopter badge on their profile and in the awards leaderboard, and next to their rating in the Companion panel. It is a thank-you for joining early; it doesn't change any score or rating.