[EricH]

Originally Posted by jasper.s.jacobs

Can someone please explain the First Ranking Score system to me? I am not sure the way that it was originally explained to me is correct because imo it does not make much sense. The person who explained it to me said that a higher ranking score is achieved by beating a team by a smaller margin??? Imo that takes the competitive nature away from the game, because a high scoring team might choose to not play defensively against other teams so that they can achieve a higher ranking score.
any opinions? anything helps

This is the second such thread since Championship...

The person who explained it to you is correct. It's effectively a strength of schedule, calculated as follows:

RS(win)=loser's unpenalized score
RS(loss)=your penalized score
RS(tie)=score with all penalties

Average(RS(win)+RS(loss)+RS(tie))=the displayed ranking score.

If this still doesn't make sense, Section 9 has the answer.