This page explains the ranking of Opti Class GER, the German Optimist class association. Other countries use their own rules. From your place in a regatta to your average in the ranking list, worked through one example. A three-minute video, with everything to read below.
You sail a regatta in Germany. How many points do you get for the German ranking list? And where do you stand after it?
Here is an example. Last weekend you sailed a two-day regatta. 40 boats crossed the finish line at least once. Only these boats count.
There were five races. You finished 9th, 14th, 6th, 24th and 16th. The 24 is your discard. 9 + 14 + 6 + 16 makes 45 points. That puts you 10th overall.
Now every place gets ranking points. Here, more points are better. The winner gets 100. Each place behind gets 2.5 less: 97.5, 95, and so on. The last boat gets 2.5.
You finished 10th. So you get 77.5 points. With only 12 boats, 10th place would give just 25. A big fleet pays off.
Then comes the factor. Your points are multiplied by it. Opti Class GER, the German Optimist class association, sets it for every A regatta. It depends on how strong the fleet was in the last two years.
The German Youth Championship, the IDJM, has the highest factor: 1.4. The Eckernförder Eichhörnchen had 1.3 in 2026. The Seeshaupter Optipreis had 1.15. Big regattas abroad, like the Halloween Cup, have 1.2.
But there are exceptions for very large regattas abroad. The big Easter regatta, the Lake Garda Meeting, has a factor of 1.35.
Your regatta had a factor of 1.2. For 10th place, you calculate 77.5 × 1.2. That is 93 points. The winner gets 120.
A regatta does not count just once. A two-day regatta counts up to four times. Longer regattas count up to five times, if at least six races were sailed. Your regatta counts four times.
Your best nine scores go into the ranking list. Weaker scores drop out. They cannot hurt you.
This regatta was your best result so far. Before that you had 80 and 70 points, also four times each. Four times 93, four times 80 and one 70 count. Your average is 84.7.
The ranking list shows everyone with nine scores first, sorted by their average. Sailors with fewer than nine scores come after them.
Remember: a good place, a big fleet, a high factor. And nine good scores move you up.
All rules are published by Opti Class GER.
P = f × 100 × (s + 1 − x) ÷ s
In the example: 1.2 × 100 × (40 + 1 − 10) ÷ 40 = 93.
The rule “best nine scores” and the order of the ranking list are not in these texts. SailRanker checked them against the published ranking lists.
SailRanker works it out with your sail number: place by place, with your real average.