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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. Here is every step.

Honor Index (counting the trophies)

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

base — each honor's base value, set by prestige and scarcity (table below).
Team titles — Championships, weighted by event tier
Individual awards — MVPs & All-Pro selections, scaled by vote share
Deep runs — Finals appearances that fell short of the title

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.

No diminishing returns: every repeat win of an honor adds full value — dominance is only ever rewarded.

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

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).

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

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

Worked example

How the current No. 1, Lewis Hamilton, builds a score of 6,340:

World Drivers' Championship ×73,640

Grand Prix Win ×1051,470

Pole Position ×104624

Podium ×202606

Weights by achievement

The base value of every honor in this sport, calibrated by event prestige and scarcity — the base term in the formula above.

Achievement	Bucket	Tier	Base points
World Drivers' Championship	Individual awards	S	520
Grand Prix Win	Team titles	A	14
Pole Position	Deep runs	B	6
Podium	Deep runs	B	3

Weighting presets

Multipliers applied per bucket. Switch presets on the leaderboard to re-rank instantly.

Balanced

Team titles×1

Individual awards×1

Deep runs×1

Titles purist

Team titles×0.7

Individual awards×1.6

Deep runs×0.6

preset.volume

Team titles×1.35

Individual awards×0.8

Deep runs×1.2

Comparison dimensions

The head-to-head radar maps six facets, each scaled 0–100 against the strongest player.

TitlesTeam championships — the trophies that define a dynasty.

WinsCareer race wins — the headline volume of victories.

PolesCareer pole positions — raw one-lap qualifying speed.

PodiumsCareer podium finishes — sustained front-running pace.

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.