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How the Honor Index works

The Honor Index counts only real, hard-won silverware — fully transparent and reproducible by hand, with no black box and no penalty for winning more.

HonorScore = Σ ( base × bucket × share × count )

Honor Index · counting trophies

Every title and win is recorded individually at its real year and laid out year-by-year on the timeline — career totals are never collapsed onto one season.

No diminishing returns: every repeat win adds full value, never discounted — dominance is only ever rewarded.

Vote share applies only to individual awards: a unanimous MVP counts fully, a narrow vote counts proportionally. It is summable across a career, so five dominant MVP seasons read as more than five split ones.

  • baseeach honor's base value, set by prestige and scarcity (tariff below).
  • Team titlesChampionships, weighted by event tier
  • Individual awardsMVPs & All-Pro selections, scaled by vote share
  • PlacementFinishing and ranking positions — poles, podiums, finals reached, and year-end standings.

Stature & Era Strength · the reputation lens

Stature = base × ( 1 ± 12% · eraStrength )

An optional lens, fully separate from the trophy-based Honor Index, capturing all-time standing and influence — toggle it on the leaderboard.

Crucially this is one-pass (honor scores → era density → stature) and never feeds back into the Index — no circular dependency, capped at ±12%.

  • Basea curated GOAT-consensus rating where authored, else derived from the player's Honor-Index percentile.
  • Era strengththe percentile density of decorated rivals whose prime overlapped yours (median player = 50).

Worked Example

How the current No. 1, Lee Chang-ho, builds a score of 2,636:

Korean Major Title ×117936
Tong Yang Cup ×4400
LG Cup ×4400
Samsung Cup ×3300
Fujitsu Cup ×2200
Chunlan Cup ×2200
Ing Cup100
Toyota & Denso (World Oza)100

Weights by achievement

Honor tariff by achievement bucket
AchievementBucketTierBase points
Ing CupIndividual awardsS100
Fujitsu CupIndividual awardsS100
Tong Yang CupIndividual awardsA100
LG CupIndividual awardsS100
Samsung CupIndividual awardsS100
Chunlan CupIndividual awardsA100
Bailing CupIndividual awardsA100
MLily CupIndividual awardsA100
Toyota & Denso (World Oza)Individual awardsA100
Quzhou-Lanke CupIndividual awardsA100
Nanyang CupIndividual awardsA100
Other World/Continental TitleIndividual awardsB45
Japanese Major TitleTeam titlesA8
Korean Major TitleTeam titlesA8
Chinese Major TitleTeam titlesA8

Weighting presets

Multipliers applied per bucket. Switch presets on the leaderboard to re-rank instantly.
Balanced
Team titles×1
Individual awards×1
Placement×1
preset.world
Team titles×0.6
Individual awards×1.4
Placement×1
preset.domestic
Team titles×1.6
Individual awards×0.8
Placement×1

Comparison dimensions

The head-to-head radar maps six facets, each scaled 0–100 against the strongest player.
World TitlesInternational world-championship titles — the cross-era measure of greatness.
JapanMajor Japanese domestic titles (Kisei, Meijin, Honinbo and more).
KoreaMajor Korean domestic titles.
ChinaMajor Chinese domestic titles.
PeakThe single most decorated season or year of the career.
LongevityCareer span and the number of decorated seasons.

Data & sourcing

Illustrative dataset for this prototype — honors are approximate and seeded by hand, not yet synced from Leaguepedia.

Production data will sync from Leaguepedia's Cargo tables (CC BY-SA), reconciled against Wikidata IDs, with traditional sports added later through a sport-agnostic achievement model.

Compiled2026-07
SourcesNihon Ki-in · Hanguk Kiwon · Chinese Weiqi Association · Go Ratings · Wikidata