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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, 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

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
Ing Cup	Individual awards	S	100
Fujitsu Cup	Individual awards	S	100
Tong Yang Cup	Individual awards	A	100
LG Cup	Individual awards	S	100
Samsung Cup	Individual awards	S	100
Chunlan Cup	Individual awards	A	100
Bailing Cup	Individual awards	A	100
MLily Cup	Individual awards	A	100
Toyota & Denso (World Oza)	Individual awards	A	100
Quzhou-Lanke Cup	Individual awards	A	100
Nanyang Cup	Individual awards	A	100
Other World/Continental Title	Individual awards	B	45
Japanese Major Title	Team titles	A	8
Korean Major Title	Team titles	A	8
Chinese Major Title	Team titles	A	8

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

preset.world

Team titles×0.6

Individual awards×1.4

Deep runs×1

preset.domestic

Team titles×1.6

Individual awards×0.8

Deep runs×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.