A full breakdown of how Table Tennis Tube ranks players inside a round-robin group — the ranking rules, what each column means, and exactly how two-way, three-way, and bigger ties are resolved step by step.
Every player's spot in the table is decided by the first rule below that isn't a tie. If it's a tie, move to the next rule — but only among the players still tied.
2 points for a match win, 1 point for a match loss. Every completed match — including walkovers and retirements — awards points to both players. A player who hasn't finished any matches yet has 0 points.
Total points (balls) scored across every game in the group, minus points conceded. A player who wins matches by big scorelines climbs above one who only just scraped through.
Total sets/games won minus sets/games lost across the group. This only comes into play when two or more players still can't be separated by points or point differential.
The higher-rated player ranks first if everything above is still level. This is the final tiebreaker — if ratings match too, it's treated as a genuine tie.
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
| PL | Matches played (completed, including walkovers/retirements). |
| W / D / L | Matches won / drawn / lost. Draws don't occur in table tennis, so this column stays at 0. |
| PF–PA (or GM) | Points For–Points Against: total points scored minus conceded across every game played. GM is just an older column label for this exact same number — some pages call it PF–PA, others call it GM, but it's the identical stat either way. |
| PTS | Total points from Rule 1 above (2 per win, 1 per loss). |
There's no separate "tiebreaker system" — it's the exact same four rules above, applied repeatedly to a shrinking group of still-tied players.
Only the two tied players are compared, rule by rule: point differential first, then set differential, then rating — stopping as soon as one of them is ahead.
All tied players are re-ranked together on the next rule. If that separates some of them, the players still tied form a smaller group and only they continue on to the rule after that. This repeats until everyone is separated, or every rule is exhausted.
Alice and Bob both finish 2 wins–1 loss = 5 points each (tied on Rule 1).
| Player | PTS | Point diff. |
|---|---|---|
| Alice | 5 | +30 (150 for, 120 against) |
| Bob | 5 | +10 (140 for, 130 against) |
Alice's +30 beats Bob's +10 on Rule 2, so Alice ranks above Bob — no need to even look at set differential or rating.
Alice, Bob, and Carol all finish 2 wins–1 loss = 5 points each (three-way tie on Rule 1).
| Player | PTS | Point diff. | Set diff. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alice | 5 | +25 | +3 |
| Bob | 5 | +25 | +1 |
| Carol | 5 | +10 | — |
Carol's +10 is behind on Rule 2, so she drops to 3rd. Alice and Bob are still tied at +25, so only those two continue to Rule 3 (set differential): Alice +3 beats Bob +1. Final order: Alice 1st, Bob 2nd, Carol 3rd.
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