Help:Power Rankings

How do power rankings work?

 * First, power rankings are defined in a Data page for a tournament with the argument . Points only need to be added to the first line of each block of places that get the same points; for example if places 6-10 get 1400 points and 11-20 get 1200 points, define in line 6 and then  in line 11, and places 7-10 will remember the value from 6.
 * Then, player pages query all of the tournaments to determine their total points. You can define different groups of points to add by adding tags to the event and the player; for example, if you wanted to tag Worlds-qualifying events and show only points earned from these, you could add in each event you care about, and then set up the tag to store in the player page too.
 * Finally, on the power rankings board, we query the totals from the player page and display rankings.

But what about notability guidelines?
There is a Python script that runs once-daily to create every player page that should have points but doesn't exist yet. However, these pages aren't going to be maintained by wiki staff; they only exist to query and store power rankings. The benefit of this system is that we can show all players' achievements, but wiki staff don't have to maintain tens of thousands of pages (literally).