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Championships and rankings
Nico Verlinden (speler nico)

Ranking breakdown

Computed 1 November 2026 · full Belgian ranking

Rank
#16
Rating
1626
1500 + 126.0
SourceHowEventsPoints
BGA Peak Elo 599 → 38.6 of 60; current Elo 465 → 37.4 of 60, × 0.72 for 5 months ago. Normalised across 50 players with 20+ rated games (peak 190–825, current 115–677). 561 65.7
Belgian Championship (BCLC) Placement points of every live Belgian Championship. 3 46.5
Online Championship (BCOC) Placement points of every online championship, × 0.75. 4 9.9
BCL Placement points per league season, scaled by tier and × 0.5. 1 4.0
WCC 100 × (field − rank) / (field − 1) per World Championship, × 0.7. 0.0
Nations 4 points per win for Team Belgium, 5 (ETCOC) or 6 (WTCOC) in the knock-out stages. 0.0
Friendlies 2 points per win in a Team Belgium friendly. 0.0
TotalRating = 1500 + total126.0

Belgian Championship (BCLC) · 46.5 points

EventDateRawDecayPoints
BCLC 2025 — rank 3 10 May 2025 50.0 0.85 42.5
BCLC 2024 — rank 30 16 Mar 2024 3.0 0.72 2.2
BCLC 2023 — rank 17 4 Mar 2023 3.0 0.61 1.8

Online Championship (BCOC) · 9.9 points

EventDateRawDecayWeightPoints
BCOC 2026 — rank 31 23 Dec 2025 3.0 1.00 0.75 2.3
BCOC 2025 — rank 17 30 Dec 2024 3.0 0.85 0.75 1.9
BCOC 2024 — rank 15 19 Dec 2023 8.0 0.72 0.75 4.3
BCOC 2023 — rank 18 22 Dec 2022 3.0 0.61 0.75 1.4

BCL · 4.0 points

EventDateRawDecayWeightPoints
BCL 2026 Spring ML — rank 12 (ML) 14 May 2026 8.0 1.00 0.5 4.0

How the ranking is computed

Every Belgian player collects points from six sources. The rating shown is 1500 plus the total, and the ranking is rebuilt every night.

BGA
Up to 120 points: the all-time peak Elo and the current Elo on Board Game Arena, each normalised to 0–60 across the Belgian players with at least 20 rated games. The current part halves for every year without a game.
Belgian Championship (BCLC)
Placement points for every live Belgian Championship: 100, 70, 50, 35, 25, 20, 17, 14 for places 1–8, then 8 (top 16), 3 (top 32) and 1 for everyone else.
Online Championship (BCOC)
The same placement table for the online championship, weighted 0.75.
BCL
Placement points per league season, weighted 0.5 and scaled by tier: Master 1, Gold 0.6, Silver 0.35, Bronze 0.2.
WCC
100 × (field − rank) / (field − 1) for every World Championship, weighted 0.7: the winner gets the full 100, the last place 0.
Nations
4 points per win for Team Belgium in the ETCOC and WTCOC group stage, 5 and 6 in their knock-out stages, 2 per win in a friendly.

Decay. Every event counts for 0.85 per year since it was played (a result from two years ago counts for 0.72), never less than 0.1. Recent form therefore weighs more than old titles, but a title never disappears.