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Standings Formatting

Control how standings appear on screen and in print.

Access: Options → Formatting → Standings tab (or right-click in the standings view for quick options)

Sort Order

Primary sort — Choose how players are ranked:

  • Standings — Score first, then configured tiebreaks (most common)
  • Pair number, rating, alphabetical, etc.
  • Game wins — For fixed-roster team events where prizes are based on total game points rather than match points

If Standings is not the primary sort, it becomes the secondary sort automatically.

Secondary sort — When primary sort values are equal, choose between pair number order and score (rank) order. This setting also affects the wall chart.

Display Options

The Standings tab of Format Options, showing the sort dropdowns, the display-option checkboxes, the Tiebreak options and Prize options dropdowns, and the TB place (tiebrk sort only) checkbox

OptionDescription
Order numbersNumber players by standings rank or by pair number
Math symbolsUse +, =, - instead of W, D, L for results. Note: editing requires turning this off.
Show IDDisplay USCF/FIDE ID column
Show ratingsDisplay pre-tournament ratings
Final ratingDisplay estimated post-tournament ratings
Show performanceDisplay performance rating
Rounds in progressShow the most recent paired round even when it is incomplete. Finished games show their result; only games still unplayed show ~opponent. (Off by default — standings normally show completed rounds only.)
Tiebreak optionsNo tiebreaks shown, Show tiebreaks, or Hide until final round
Prize optionsNo prizes shown, Show prizes, or Hide until final round. When prizes are shown, the column is headed Prize, and a warning strip above the standings flags prizes that aren’t final or class ranges that need checking. See Prize warnings in the standings.
Show placeDisplay standings rank up to the specified player limit
TB place (tiebrk sort only)Show the absolute post-tiebreak ranking column. On by default; only takes effect with the tiebreak sort (see below).

TB Place is the player’s absolute finishing place after tiebreaks are applied. Because that ranking only makes sense when the grid is actually ordered by tiebreaks, the column appears only when all of these hold:

  • TB place (tiebrk sort only) is checked (the default)
  • At least one tiebreak is configured and the tiebreak columns are shown
  • The primary sort is Standings (with tiebrk)
  • The section is not team-based

Outside the tiebreak sort the column is hidden, so it can no longer print a confusing value (such as a 4th row reading “TB Place 8”) against a plain rating sort. It is no longer tied to Show place.

Hide until final round (in Tiebreak options or Prize options) hides tiebreaks or prizes until the last round. Sections with no configured round count use the latest paired round as the final round, so they hide correctly while a round is still in progress. With Show prizes, prizes shown before the tournament ends can still change, and SwissSys asks you to confirm before you print standings with prizes.

For Prize options, the clinch-aware behavior described below — showing only clinched prizes once the final round is paired — only works for a plain individual Swiss section with every earlier round finished and the final round paired but not yet complete. Round robin, ladder, team, and fixed-roster sections, and any section with more than 10 games still unfinished in the final round, don’t get that early reveal: prizes stay hidden (or, past the 10-game limit, the prize column stays blank with an explanatory line) until the tournament is complete.

Prize Warnings in the Standings

When the standings show prizes, a strip above the grid (dark red text on a pale yellow background) lists anything that makes those prizes unreliable, one message per line:

  • PARTIAL RESULTS means the tournament isn’t finished. With Show prizes, it reads PARTIAL RESULTS - tournament in progress; prizes are NOT final while any round remains. With Hide until final round, for a plain individual Swiss section with the final round paired and in progress and every earlier round finished, only clinched prizes are shown and the line counts them, for example PARTIAL RESULTS - Final round in progress - 1 clinched, 2 pending. Other section types, and this section with more than 10 games still unfinished, don’t get that early reveal — see the note above.
  • CHECK CLASS SETUP - … names a class whose High is below its Low, so no player can win it. Only a file saved in an older version can show it. See Rating range restrictions.
  • UNAWARDED - … appears once results are final and names a prize nobody could receive.

The Prizes page explains every message and what to do about it. The prize column header always reads Prize.

The standings with prizes shown, and a warning strip above the grid, in dark red text on pale yellow, with two lines: "PARTIAL RESULTS - tournament in progress; prizes are NOT final" and "CHECK CLASS SETUP - Class 3 (1600-1799) has its High below its Low, so no player can win it."

The same lines appear at the top of standings you print, save as PDF, export to HTML, text, or Excel, or copy to the clipboard. On printed pages they sit between the page title and the standings, on every page.

Print preview of the standings with the PARTIAL RESULTS and CHECK CLASS SETUP warning lines printed in dark red between the page title and the standings table

The strip goes away when the tournament is complete and nothing needs your attention.

Fixed-Roster Team Events

For fixed-roster events, you can sort the team standings by game wins (individual game points) rather than match points. This is useful when prize distribution is based on total game points.

When using this:

Pairings Setup DialogLimitations of the Fide-only Version
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