Checking your Xpert team Ranking

One thing everyone in Xpert wants to do is to achieve a good ranking. There are various things that help your ranking but one thing that is crucial is to be able to check how many ranking points you received from a game.

Rating points explained

When managers play games with their official team they receive rating points. The points score in the last 6 months (the player's ranking cycle) are added together and then rankings are calculated based on who has the most points.

Points are also translated into the skill bars you see - but like many things in X11 it's not overly straightforward. Odd number bars have 27 points per bar. Even numbered bars have 33 points per bar - presumably this is X11's even number rounding system. The following table is manager points for the number of bars:

Skill Bars	Manager Points
4	0-32
5	33-59
6	60-92
7	93-119
8	120-152
9	153-179
10	180-212
11	213-239
12	240-272
13	273-299
14	300-332
15	333-359
16	360-392

Obviously it's easy to see how many bars you have and to know the approximate number of points you have, but that's not massively useful. What we need to do is find the exact number of points.

Calculating your exact number of manager points

Calculating the exact number of manager points is fiddly and can take a few minutes but it's not hard. What happens is everyone with the same number of manager points is given the same rank. You need to find how many of these ranking levels there are between you and the next ranking bar below (r above) and you know your exact points.

To do this you need to be a VIP and search for managers by ranking points. Depending on your ranking there could be 100+ people on the same ranking step as you - not much fun to search through so I tend to search for a specific country to reduce the number on the same point. EG if you search for English managers you get approx 1/6 of all managers, reducing that 100 figure to around 17.

Here's an example screen done just for English manages. Note there are approx 30 players each on the same ranking levels. If you look more closely you will see the managers ranked at 1860 have 10 bars whereas the managers at 1826 all have 11 bars. These managers are on the first rung of the 11-bar ladder so have 213 manager points.

This lets you easily check the exact number of manager points you have at any given time. Actually that isn't entirely true - once you get to around 14 bars there isn't always somebody on each rung of the ladder so the system stops working after a while

Calculating manager points from a match

If you are able to calculate your manager points at any given time then you can calculate how many points you gained (or lost) from a given match. You need to be careful for matches coming off your ranking cycle so it's best to check on the day of the match then the following day after rankings are recalculated.

Once you can check how many points you get for a match you can see what formation & tactical options work well for increasing your ranking.