Explain ISU rankings to me, please?

November 15, 2017 11:45 AM

I'd call this inside baseball, but it's inside ice dance: how do the ISU world rankings work? Specifically, I don't understand this current ranking because Virtue/Moir in 3rd & Papadakis/Cizeron in 7th is crazy. Does this have to do with who's done 2 GP comps so far and who hasn't? Or...?

I can see that Virtue/Moir's 2-year layoff after Sochi might come into play, but I'm still confused about, say, Chock/Bates so far ahead of Papadakis/Cizeron who were world champs 2 years ago and in 2nd last year. Not to mention the fact that V/M are the current world champs.

Figure skating nerds, help me out here!

posted by BlahLaLa to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (2 answers total)

Response by poster: Okay, hang on. I see that this is the current season's rankings, in which who's done 1 GP vs. who has done 2 comes into play.

But I'm still confused about the current world rankings above.
posted by BlahLaLa at 11:54 AM on November 15, 2017

I'm not sure how it's calculated myself, but you might want to send your question on to figureskatingask.tumblr.com.
posted by Dante Riordan at 9:36 PM on November 15, 2017 [1 favorite]