How the scoring works: the full system, formula included
29 Aug 2026 · OFCPoker.eu
Most ranking formulas reward the size of your wallet: bigger buy-in, more points. We built the OFCPoker.eu leaderboard the other way around — the buy-in never changes the points. A win is a win, whether it costs €150 or €1,100. What does change the points is the one thing you actually beat: the field. This post lays out the whole system, formula included.
The formula
points = position points × field factor
Two ingredients, nothing else. No buy-in term, no currency conversion, no “prestige” multipliers. Both ingredients are public, so you can recompute any score on the leaderboard by hand.
Ingredient 1: the position table
Position points come from a fixed table, read like a Formula 1 table — winning is worth 100:
| Finish | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 100 | 80 | 65 | 55 | 47 | 41 | 36 | 32 | 28 | 25 |
| Finish | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th | 16th | 17th | 18th | 19th | +20th |
| Points | 22 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 |
Twenty positions, and the gaps only ever shrink — 20, 15, 10, 8, 6… down to single points — so the table glides down to 10 instead of falling off a cliff. Only players in the money score from the table: exactly the event's real ITM, straight from its official payout list. The last tier is open-ended — +20th covers every paid place from 20th down at 10 points. While an event has no payout list yet we estimate with the top 15% of the field (never fewer than three places). Everyone else who played takes 5 participation points home — showing up is how a season is built.
Ingredient 2: the field factor
Outlasting 131 players is worth more than outlasting 15, and the field factor says exactly how much more:
field factor = 0.50 × (entries / 10) ^ 0.4626 (from ×0.50 to ×2.00)
The pieces, one by one:
It is one continuous curve. ×0.50 at the 10-entry minimum — the smallest field that counts — rising through ×1.00 at around 45 entries to ×2.00 at 200. Any size in between is interpolated with the formula: a 47-entry event does not use the factor of 40, it gets its own.
The exponent is 0.4626. Field size matters, but less than linearly: doubling the field multiplies the factor by about 1.38, not by 2. Big fields are rewarded without letting one giant turnout decide the whole season — and it is exactly the exponent that lands 200 entries on ×2.00, so both ends of the scale are exact.
The cap is ×2.00. From 200 entries up, a bigger field adds nothing, which keeps a single mega-event from breaking the scale. The most a win can ever pay is 200 points.
Worked examples
A 60-entry event: factor ≈1.15 — the winner scores 115, second 92, ninth 32. An 80-entry High Roller: factor ≈1.31 — the win pays 131. And the real thing: the Irish Poker Open 2026, 132 entries and 18 paid places — factor ≈1.65: the win paid 165, 3rd 107, 9th 46, 18th (the last paid place) 20, and everyone from 19th down took the 5 participation points. A 10-entry event, the smallest that counts: factor ×0.50, so the win pays 50.
The guardrails
For an event to count at all it needs at least 10 entries and a buy-in of €150 or more (converted where the currency differs — and deliberately no maximum, because a bigger buy-in never buys more points). Your season score is your best 10 results, so nobody wins by volume alone. And to win the season or any prize you must have played OFC at two or more partner brands — a European champion is made in more than one country.
The same table, the factor curve and a live calculator — punch in any field size and finish — are on the Leaderboard page.