Year 1 Playoffs

The PRO Roundnet League is a national club-based roundnet league featuring P1, P2, M1, M2, and Women's divisions. Clubs compete throughout the season for standings, playoff qualification, promotion, relegation, and championships. The league is built to create long-term club identity, structured competition, regional growth, and advancement pathways from beginner levels to the highest level of play. The season includes three official matchdays followed by championship playoffs in Orlando, Florida.

The season includes three primary matchdays:

• Matchday 1: Super Regionals (Las Vegas & Richmond)
• Matchday 2, Local Conference Competition
• Matchday 3: Orlando Season Finale. Championship playoff brackets begin Friday evening after Matchday 3 and conclude Saturday.

League standings use a group point system:

• Win = 3 points
• Tie = 1 point
• Loss = 0 points. Group points primarily determine playoff qualification. The Power Score sets playoff seeding and the Slot Choice order and helps decide the final Championship and Promotion Bracket spots from the Play-In Schedule.

Seeding runs off the Power Score, which weighs a squad’s group points per match together with the strength of its results, beating strong squads counts for more than running up wins over weak ones. The Power Score sets the seeding and the Slot Choice order for the Championship and Promotion Brackets, and helps decide their final spots from the Play-In Schedule. The first Power Scores publish November 9.

Your PRO Score is a career rating from 1 to 10 that follows you from event to event. It's built from every counted net you've played in the league, and it looks at your game from several angles:

• How strong you are, underneath the score sits a rating built purely from your results: who you played, who was across the net, and who won. It's the league's best single measure of playing strength
• Whether your pairs win, winning matters twice: your overall net record, and how you do across all your partnerships. A player who wins with one star partner scores differently than a player who wins with whoever they're paired with, the score notices the difference
• What happens on the scoreboard, the points your pairs score, the points they give up, and the margin between them, all adjusted for the strength of the pair across the net, so running up the score on a weak pair doesn't count like doing it against a top one
• The team around you, a slice of the score reflects the strength of the squad you play on. Great teams lift their players a little; the score gives some of that credit, and some of that drag, to you
• Whether you're the difference, it also looks at how often you're the bright spot in your pairs, the common thread when your side plays above its usual level

One guardrail keeps it honest. A small number of nets can't inflate a score: until you've built a real body of work, your score is pulled toward the middle of the pack. Past that, there is no ceiling and no shortcut: the top of the ladder sits wherever the best careers in the league take it, and the biggest wins of a career, the games your profile keeps as your career-defining games, are the ones that move it most.

One number, your whole career, that's the PRO Score. Read it as a résumé, not a prediction: it records what your career has proven, and it grows season over season. Its single-match cousin is PER, which grades one match at a time using the same ideas.

PER, Player Efficiency Rating, is your form this season: one grade for the whole season, on a scale of 1 to 99 where 50 is the average for your competition, the field you actually play against. A 60 in Minor and a 60 in P1 are both strong seasons, graded against different fields.

Every match starts at 50, league average. Finish above 50 and the day went well: you won your nets, and how much you won by, how many points you scored, and how strong the pair across the net was all push the number up toward 99. Finish below 50 and the day went the other way, with the same factors pulling you down toward 1.

Four things grade every match:

• Winning your nets, nothing moves the number like winning
• How much you win by, winning by more pays, but running up the score stops paying at 10, so a controlled win counts in full
• The points you score, what your pair puts on the board
• Who is across the net, the pair facing you sets the bar with their PRO Scores: the stronger they are, the higher a great day can climb, and the very top of the scale only opens against the best pairs in the league

One matchday gets its own number: your Matchday Grade is the same grading applied to a single matchday, with nothing blended in, so a great day shows in full. Your season PER blends every matchday together, and it treats a small sample honestly: a PER built on very few nets is pulled toward the average until the body of work behind it is real. Partners share the grade, too: every net grades the pair, so your number reflects the partners you played those nets with.

PER is computed fresh for every match, then rolls up into a Matchday Grade for the day and a PER for the season, so a great month shows up right away. Only official match nets that were fully recorded count: pickup games, partial records, and forfeits never move it.

Because the two numbers do different jobs. A Matchday Grade grades one day on its own: play great that day and the grade says so, in full. Your season PER blends every matchday together, and it pulls a small sample toward the average, so a season built on a modest number of nets lands closer to 50 than the days that made it.

Say your Matchday Grades are 72 and 84, on a light schedule: the blend can print as a season PER in the 60s, below both days. Nothing was taken away; the season number is simply asking for more proof, and stacking more nets at that level pulls the PER up toward the days that built it.

The same blending is why one huge day on a handful of nets does not print at face value: a grade of 80 over 4 nets can land as a PER in the 50s, while the same 80 across 40 nets prints around 70. Volume is what turns a great day into a great season number.

Say your pair wins a net 15-8, twice in the same day.

• Against a developing pair still finding its feet, that is a good, solid win, and PER grades it that way: above average, a strong day
• Against one of the best pairs in the league, the same 15-8 is a statement win, and the grade climbs far higher, into the range that only opens against the best

That is the design working exactly as intended. The pair across the net sets the bar, so their PRO Scores decide how high your grade can reach. Beating up on a weaker field tops out in the high 80s; to see the 90s, you have to beat the best pairs in the league, and beat them well. Two identical scorelines, two very different tests, two honest grades.

PER grades every match on the same four things, so the path up is the play itself:

• Win your nets, nothing moves the number like winning
• Win by more, every extra point of margin helps, up to 10. Past 10 it stops counting extra, so a controlled win counts in full
• Score, the points your pair puts on the board count too, so a high-scoring win grades above a low-scoring one
• Build a partnership, every net grades the pair, so the partners you win with share your grade, and a pair that wins together climbs together
• Play the best pairs you can, strong opposition raises the ceiling on your grade. The top of the scale only opens against the best pairs in the league
• Play more nets, a handful of nets is still a small sample, and small samples get pulled toward the average. A full day of nets lets a great day show its full value

And the mirror image: the same four things pull a below-average day down, so the fastest fix is usually the simplest one. Win the next net.

PRO Score is career proof, so it rewards what a career is made of: strong competition, repeated over time.

• Play the long game, PRO Score does not reset, and it is built from every counted net you have ever played in the league. There is no shortcut and no one-weekend spike
• Chase strong competition, beating good pairs is what actually moves it; wins over soft fields count for far less
• Win at your level, then test yourself above it, the score can tell the difference between winning with one star partner and winning with whoever you are paired with
• Keep showing up, bank matchdays and seasons. A deep body of work is exactly what the score is built to reward, and a small sample gets pulled toward the middle until you build one
• Win the big ones, the biggest wins of a career move it most: beating top pairs on the biggest stages is the fastest climb there is, and your profile keeps those games as your career-defining games

One quiet season does not erase a strong career, and one hot month cannot create one. Read the number as a résumé, not a prediction of your next match. That is the point: when a PRO Score says a player is proven, it is because they have proven it, over and over.

Because the two numbers answer different questions. PER is current form: it is graded fresh for every match, so one great weekend moves it right away. PRO Score is career proof: it is built from every counted net you have ever played in the league, so the same weekend is one chapter in a long book, and the number moves like it.

Watch PER for how you are playing now, and PRO Score for what your career has proven.

For the Pro ballot, a player needs a Pro-division PER of 40 or better and at least 6 counted Pro nets. Only P1 and P2 nets count toward the 6, and the PER that counts is the Pro-division line, not a combined one. Every player who clears the bar is on the ballot, whether they attended both matchdays or just one, and their card shows which. Playing any division counts toward the matchdays you attended, and coaching a matchday counts as attending it.

The Women's ballot asks for at least one match this season, in any division, with no PER minimum. Every player in a club is on that club's MVP ballot. The full ballot, with the voting rules, lives on the All-Star page.

Season leaderboards ask for a body of work: a player shows on them once they have played in at least two of the league's last three events. For 2026 those events are the January Playoffs, Matchday 1 and Matchday 2, so last year's playoffs plus one matchday this season counts. One matchday on its own does not. Under that bar a player's numbers still count: they live on the player's card and profile, and a season PER built on very few nets is pulled toward the average while the sample is small. Once the events stack up, the player takes their place on the boards and the PER stands on its own.

Divisions create balanced competition at every skill level while providing a clear pathway for advancement. The structure helps:

• Reduce major skill mismatches
• Create promotion opportunities
• Encourage club growth
• Reward long-term development
• Allow newer teams to compete meaningfully