OPR & Playtomic — How They Compare

The quick answer

The rough conversion

OPR runs on its own scale — built for doubles, and finer-grained than Playtomic's 0–7.

As a rough guide, an OPR level sits about 5.5 to 6 points above the equivalent Playtomic level:

OPR level ≈ Playtomic + 5.5

So an OPR 9.6 is around a Playtomic 4.

It's a guide, not a strict formula — and that's deliberate. No two rating systems convert exactly (even Playtomic says its level doesn't convert cleanly to other systems). Giving a range is the honest, accurate way to do it.

Why it's a guide, not a formula

What the numbers show

Here are three real players across both systems:

Player	OPR level	Playtomic
Player A	9.6	4.0
Player B	9.7	3.45
Player C	7.9	2.0

Look at A and B. OPR has them almost level — 9.6 and 9.7. Playtomic has them half a point apart, in the opposite order. They can't both be right — and the reason matters.

OPR has watched A and B play a full body of matches at the club, so it knows they're the same standard. The Playtomic figures come from only a handful of logged rounds — and Playtomic itself says a level isn't reliable until a player has played ~15–20 matches. So the gap wanders not because OPR is uncertain, but because the Playtomic numbers are still settling.

Why OPR is the truer read at your club

Built on your real history

Full match history. OPR is built on every match a player has actually played at the club — not a handful of app-logged games.
Finer resolution. Where a broad 0–7 scale lumps players into half-point bands, OPR can separate two players who'd both just show as "a 4" — exactly what you need inside a club where everyone's a similar standard.
Built for doubles. OPR rates how pairs actually perform together, which is how club padel is really played.
It's your club's number. The OPR level is the real standing where a player actually plays — not a global average from elsewhere.

How to put it

The friendly one-liner

When someone says "but we use Playtomic"

"Great — roughly, take about 5.5 off an OPR level and you're in Playtomic territory, so a 9.6 is around a Playtomic 4. But OPR's a sharper instrument: it can tell two similar players apart that a broad global scale, on limited rounds, gets in the wrong order — because OPR is reading your actual club history."