# SwingElo

> How we score West Coast Swing competitions — methodology, metrics, and transparency

## Docs

- [FAQ](/faq): **What is SwingElo?**
An analytics platform for West Coast Swing competitions. We collect publicly available competition results, compute metrics like strength scores and odds to finals, and make them available through a searchable interface.
- [How Scoring Works](/scoring): Every metric on SwingElo is derived from publicly available competition results — prelim callbacks, finals placements, and WSDC registry data. Nothing is subjective or manually assigned.
- [Judge Quality](/scoring/judge-quality): Which judges are best at spotting rising talent? The judge quality metric answers this by looking at a simple question: **when a judge says "yes" to a dancer in prelims, does that dancer go on to level up?**
- [Odds to Finals](/scoring/odds): The odds calculation estimates your chances of making finals at each event. It looks at two things: how strong a competitor you are, and how hard it historically is to make finals at that specific event.
- [Power Rankings](/scoring/power-rankings): Power rankings list the top 500 dancers in the WCS circuit. Unlike the [strength score](/scoring/strength) (which is used to calculate odds), power rankings are meant to be read — they show who the strongest active dancers are overall.
- [Strength Score](/scoring/strength): Your strength score is a number from 0 to 100 that captures how well you've been competing. It's used behind the scenes to calculate your [odds to finals](/scoring/odds) at each event.
- [Callback Stats](/profiles/callbacks): Your profile shows prelim callback statistics per skill level. Here's how to read them.
- [Understanding Your Profile](/profiles): Your SwingElo profile brings together competition data from across the WCS circuit. Here's how to read it.
- [WSDC Points](/profiles/wsdc): The World Swing Dance Council (WSDC) maintains an official point registry for competitive West Coast Swing dancers. SwingElo pulls this data to enrich your profile.
- [Prelim Callbacks](/data/callbacks): Prelim callbacks are the most common competitive interaction in WCS — and for many dancers, especially at the novice level, they're the *only* scored interaction. Here's how they work and how we use them.
- [Divisions & Levels](/data/divisions): West Coast Swing competitions are organized into divisions by skill level, competition type, and role. Understanding these is key to reading your analytics.
- [Event History](/data/events): SwingElo tracks 176 events across the WCS circuit from 2018 to 2026.
- [What We Track](/data): SwingElo collects publicly available competition results from the West Coast Swing circuit and the WSDC registry. Here's what goes into the system.