Methodology

SeeMePlayMe Spades rankings is based largely on the official Chess Federation's ranking system. The difference is that Chess is played between only two players, where spades is based on anywhere from two to four players. We accomodate this difference by treating each match as a series of individual matches. The player with the most points at the end of the match wins the game. In a tie situation no points are awarded to the tying players.

One difference is that Chess is played between two people and Hearts can be played with up to four people. We handle this difference by breaking down each game into a series of matches. In each game there are winners and losers. Winning and losing is determined by the number of points scored. Each player is treated as if they are in an individual match against all the other players in the game. The player with the least points at the end of the game wins the match.

Here's an example:

Consider a non-team game with four players See, Me, Play and Me2. In this game See gets the most points, followed by Me, then Play, then Me2. We treat the game as if there were six individual matches: