FOM Play’s MMR is a long-term number for registered players. It is separate from the standings for one session: the match-night table answers who led that event, while MMR records eligible scored matches across finalized sessions.
What MMR is
MMR stands for Matchmaking Rating. FOM calculates a change for each eligible scored match, using the result, whether the scoreline was dominant, and the average MMR of the registered players on each team.
The current rules at this article’s update are:
- a standard win starts at +25, while a dominant win starts at +40;
- a standard loss starts at −20, while a heavy loss starts at −35;
- an underdog win adds +15, while a favorite loss adds −15;
- a draw starts at +8, with a capped bonus when the drawing team was the MMR underdog.
A scoreline is treated as dominant when the winning side holds at least 70% of the total recorded score. These are product rules, not an objective measurement of padel skill, and they may be revised in future versions.
The host must finish the match successfully first. That writes the finalized tournament, after which a backend job applies eligible player stats and the match ledger. The update is asynchronous, so the app can briefly show a syncing state rather than changing every profile at the instant the final button is tapped.
The eight tiers
The published ladder currently has eight tiers:
- Rookie — just getting started.
- Amateur — finding your footing.
- Challenger
- Elite
- Master
- Grandmaster
- Legend
- Hall of Fame — the highest published tier.
New profiles use an underlying MMR of 0, which the UI displays with a +1,000 offset, and begin in Rookie. The tier is based on the underlying thresholds even though the interface shows the offset number.
Global vs city
The leaderboard can show the Global Ranking or filter registered players by province. It is not currently a city leaderboard. A player’s province is derived from profile region or home-base data when available.
How to get ranked
You need to be a registered FOM player included by your account ID in at least one scored match of a session that the host successfully finalizes. A guest entered only as a manual name can appear in that night’s schedule and standings but does not receive persistent MMR. Zero-score or still-pending matches are not applied to the ledger.
MMR has no inactivity-decay rule in the current implementation, so skipping a few weeks does not itself subtract points. Your position can still change if other registered players move around you. Read MMR as one product signal built from recorded matches — not as a complete or absolute assessment of a person on court.
