Live tournament standings screen

Rebuilt from scratch, every time

Standings are recomputed from the fixtures rather than accumulated as results arrive. That is the slower way to do it and it is the only correct one: incremental accumulation is exactly where a corrected score produces a table that no longer matches its own fixtures.

So a score fixed two hours later produces the table that would have existed if it had been right the first time, on the wall, within a second.

A tie is explained on the screen

When a table needed more than points to rank, the criteria that actually separated it are printed underneath it. "Why are they above us" is the question that starts arguments in a hall, and a table on a wall that cannot answer it is a table somebody will dispute at the presentation.

Head-to-head is computed among the tied teams only, from the fixtures those teams played against each other — which is why it can separate three teams that are level with each other but not level with anybody else.

Qualification is marked

Teams in a position that goes through to the next stage are marked as such, and the mark only appears once the table is final — a provisional table never promotes anybody, on the screen or in the bracket.

Common questions