DUPR
What is DUPR?
The Dynamic Universal Pickleball Rating (DUPR) is a system that rates players’ skill. One of the awesome things about it is that it rates you independently of age, gender, or mixed/gendered doubles play. As a player, you aren’t a better or worse player depending on the gender of your partner. And our sport is so social; we play with players of all ages when we go to the park. So our rating should be independent of age, too!
DUPR looks at the rating of each team and has an expected outcome based on this. If you do better than expected, your rating goes up; if you don’t do as well, your rating goes down. So you can lose a game and still have your rating go up, or win a game and have your rating go down.
First, you need a profile on DUPR.
- If you have played a tournament through PickleballTournaments.com in the past couple years, you probably already have a rating, or at least a profile on DUPR. Go to mydupr.com and search for your name first. DO NOT create a new profile before searching for an existing one, otherwise you’ll need to merge the accounts later.
- If you have searched for yourself on mydupr.com and there isn’t a profile for you yet, then click the “Sign Up” button and create an account.
Now that you have a profile, you need to enter scores into DUPR so that they can rate you, based on your performance against other existing players.
We will use a player’s DUPR to organize play by skill level. We won’t do this immediately and we will still have events that are non-DUPR restricted and reported, we know that many players seek out more competitive games and can be frustrated when skill levels are mismatched. We might add open play events delineated by DUPR ratings.
Please know that this is not intended to be divisive or exclusive! It is intended to help everyone play games that are competitive and well matched by skill. While social open play can be lots of fun, sometimes we want to play hard and not get beat-up by a better player, or walk all over a newer player.
Yes! When you know your score is being entered into DUPR, fight for every point and every game because they all count; not just wins or losses like traditional ranking systems.
That’s okay! Those scores will retroactively count once you or the other players play against someone who does have a DUPR. This is called “connectivity” and it’s a beautiful thing that improves accuracy of our ratings by having a broad base of players & scores. Open play is a great place to play with other players who are rated, to help get a solid rating for yourself.
If you’re interested in joining the fun, please create your account and load the app on your phone.
Yes! We encourage you to download the app so you can claim your DUPR and track your progress! Search “DUPR” in your app store.
If you’ve already played in a tournament on PickleballTournaments.com, you have an account waiting for you to claim!
From the sign up page search for your name, location, and age to claim your existing account.
Yes, make it easy to track your rating and progress in your games with us!
Once you have an account, tap the “Play” icon in the side bar, then search for “Dynamite” to find us. Tap on our page and select “Join Club.” Your request will be sent to us so you can be added to our club!
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