About

Why crew rankings?

World Sailing publishes official match racing rankings for skippers, but crew members are not tracked in any structured way. This project aims to fill that gap by extracting crew data from event results and assigning the same ranking points to crew as their skipper earns.

You cannot sail a match race without a crew, and you cannot win one without a good crew. Justice for the crew!

Methodology

This project follows the World Sailing ranking policy, applying the same points system to crew members.

• Crew members receive points based on their team's finishing position, event grade, and year weighting.
• Rankings use a 24-month rolling window (Jan 2024 – Dec 2025 for the current period).
• Points = Points Allocation × Event Grade Multiplier × Year Weighting.
• Open and Women divisions are ranked separately.
• Same best-4 rule as skippers: a crew member's ranking uses their best 4 results from each of the most recent 2 years (up to 8 counting results).
• Note: Skipper bonus points (for beating higher-ranked opponents) are not included as we lack access to pre-event skipper ranking data.

Data sources

Crew names are manually extracted from event websites, registration lists, and official results. Data quality varies by event — some events publish full crew lists while others only list skippers.

Submit a correction

If you spot an error — wrong name spelling, missing crew member, incorrect event assignment — please send us an email.

Disclaimer

This is an unofficial, community-maintained project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by World Sailing. All ranking data is derived from publicly available event results.