Canterbury Pickleball DUPR Sessions

Canterbury Pickleball Club will organise specific DUPR sessions. These will be advertised and players who join these sessions will have their games recorded and entered on DUPR by the club administrator. All matches on those sessions will count. If you are joining a DUPR session, expect ‘real’ competition, rather than rec play games!

To join these sessions, you will need to be a DUPR member.

1. Existing DUPR members

There is nothing for you to do.If you are a CPC member, you will be added to the club in DUPR automatically.

2.  Players without a DUPR account

If you wish to enter a DUPR event, you will need create a free DUPR account (via their website or app – available for Android and iOS).

Once registered, go to ‘Clubs’, search for Canterbury Pickleball and Join.

To learn more about the rating algorithm check out ‘How your DUPR rating is calculated” in the ‘About DUPR’ section below.

What is DUPR?

DUPR (rhymes with “super”) stands for Dynamic Universal Pickleball Rating and was developed in 2021 by Steve Kuhn, founder of Major League Pickleball (MLP). DUPR aims to be the most accurate, global rating system in pickleball.

How DUPR works

All players, regardless of their age, gender, location or skill are rated on the same scale between 2.000-8.000 based on their match results. 

Those accustomed to the conventional rating system, with ratings ranging from 2.5 to 5.0, will find their DUPR rating fits within that scale, while at the top end, the professional ratings are expanded above 5.000 up to 8.000. Ben Johns, the current No. 1 player, is rated 7.131. 

DUPR is an algorithm that uses a player’s last 30 singles or 60 doubles eligible matches. The algorithm considers three factors: 

Points Won:                   How many points did you win? 

Victory:                          Did you win or lose? 

Type of Result:             Was this a self-posted rec play score, a league match, an unsanctioned                                                         tournament or a sanctioned tournament result?

​​​​​​​The image below gives a good summary of how the DUPR ranking works. The important thing for the club members is that matches that are logged on club sessions (by the DUPR Canterbury Club administrator) worth more than rec play sessions.

• Tournaments, club, and league matches impact your rating more than self-posted scores.
• You can log games you play anytime/anywhere on DUPR, but those will have less weight and take a longer time to be credited. 
• DUPR sessions organised by the Canterbury Pickleball Club have more weight in your DUPR rating and are automatically accredited by the system. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

When a player creates their account, DUPR gives them the rating “NR” (No Rating). Think of this as a placeholder, a starting point as DUPR begin to gather data about your performance. Once the first match is logged, whether it's a singles or doubles game, it sets in motion a designed mechanism to create their initial rating for that match type.

From the moment a player plays their first match, a timer kicks into action. The essence of this timer is twofold:

• It waits for 7 days after the player's debut match in the respective format.
• It observes the type and quality of matches the player engages in during this time.

Every match a player plays in the 7-day span contributes points towards shedding their "NR" status. However, not all matches are weighed equally–some matches provide more information than others based on the rating status of the opponents! The value of a match is determined based on the familiarity of the players involved.

Here's the rundown:

1 Point - If our new player is the only 'unknown' entity in a match.

0.5 Points - If the new player's teammate also does not have a rating, but the entire opponent team does.

0.25 Points - If the teammate has a rating, but one opponent still does not.

0.125 Points - When only one player in the entire match has a known rating.

0.0625 Points - In matches where every participant's rating is up in the air.

The target?  To accumulate 3 points. Once you do, you’ll be initialised with a rating! If you can’t manage to get to 3 points, that’s okay, DUPR will give you their best guess 7 days after your first match is entered, but the more you play the better the DUPR guess will be for you and the quicker your rating will home in on the truth.

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