The Dynamic Universal Pickleball Rating (DUPR) is a system that rates players’ skill. One of the awesome things about it is that it rates you independently of age, gender, or mixed/gendered doubles play. As a player, you aren’t a better or worse player depending on the gender of your partner. And our sport is so social; we play with players of all ages when we go to the park. So our rating should be independent of age, too!

DUPR looks at the rating of each team and has an expected outcome based on this. If you do better than expected, your rating goes up; if you don’t do as well, your rating goes down. So you can lose a game and still have your rating go up, or win a game and have your rating go down.