• Overview
  • Final standings
    • Story of the season
  • Notable games
  • Awards 🏆
  • Stats 📚
  • About

Overview


This season’s games were played between 4 January 2022 and 27 February 2022.

48 players participated, 16 (33%) of whom were new to the league.

144 games were played: White won 75 games (52.1%), 8 games (5.6%) were drawn, and Black won 61 games (42.4%). The season’s ‘unplayed pairing’ rate was 10%.

Final standings


1st place

Supermaths

Score: 7/8 (2072 perf)

2nd place

Michael-Westen

Score: 6.5/8 (2030 perf)

3rd place

AlexGaul

Score: 6/8 (2007 perf)

Story of the season

Notable games

The 10 games with the lowest combined ACPL, including draws.

Players / Link
Result
Sum ACPL
Date
0-1
31
Sat 12 Feb 2022
1-0
37
Sun 30 Jan 2022
0-1
43
Fri 7 Jan 2022
1-0
55
Wed 9 Feb 2022
1-0
55
Tue 11 Jan 2022
1-0
55
Wed 5 Jan 2022
0-1
64
Sun 27 Feb 2022
0-1
64
Sun 13 Feb 2022
1-0
64
Sat 15 Jan 2022
1-0
66
Fri 25 Feb 2022
1/2-1/2
66
Sat 22 Jan 2022

The 10 games with the lowest combined ACPL, excluding draws.

Players / Link
Result
Sum ACPL
Date
0-1
31
Sat 12 Feb 2022
1-0
37
Sun 30 Jan 2022
0-1
43
Fri 7 Jan 2022
1-0
55
Wed 9 Feb 2022
1-0
55
Tue 11 Jan 2022
1-0
55
Wed 5 Jan 2022
0-1
64
Sun 27 Feb 2022
0-1
64
Sun 13 Feb 2022
1-0
64
Sat 15 Jan 2022
1-0
66
Fri 25 Feb 2022

All games ranked at or above the 60th percentile by number of moves played.

Rank
Players / Link
Date
Moves
1
Mon 7 Feb 2022
75
2
Fri 21 Jan 2022
71
3
Thu 3 Feb 2022
66
4
Sun 30 Jan 2022
64
5
Sat 29 Jan 2022
59
6
Sat 22 Jan 2022
57
7
Thu 3 Feb 2022
56
8
Wed 19 Jan 2022
54
1–10 of 41 rows

All games ranked at or above the 60th percentile by total clock time elapsed.1

Rank
Players / Link
Date
Total time
1
Mon 7 Feb 2022
1h 22m 19s
2
Sun 23 Jan 2022
1h 20m 2s
3
Sat 29 Jan 2022
1h 15m 57s
4
Thu 3 Feb 2022
1h 14m 44s
5
Sun 30 Jan 2022
1h 13m 34s
6
Wed 12 Jan 2022
1h 13m 6s
7
Thu 3 Feb 2022
1h 12m 54s
8
Thu 24 Feb 2022
1h 10m 37s
9
Thu 13 Jan 2022
1h 9m 28s
10
Sun 27 Feb 2022
1h 8m 53s
1–10 of 41 rows

Awards 🏆

Assorted awards to celebrate the season - see the footnote for more details.2

Award
Name / Description
Winner(s)
Runner(s)-up
Aces
Aces
Scored +6 or better
supermaths
Archbishop of Accuracy
Archbishop of Accuracy
Lowest ACPL in undecided positions after move 10
Michael-Westen
Achieved a season ACPL of 36.1
eie24, Tellerwascher
Giri Award
Giri Award
Most draws (> 1)
eie24, glbert, Roie, supermaths
2 draws
Grischuk's Cousin
Grischuk's Cousin
Least time remaining after 10th move, and still winning
guingil
Had 5m 6s left after 10 moves
Tellerwascher, SouzaMoraes
Houdini Award
Houdini Award
Biggest comebacks
lnt
Achieved 4 notable comeback wins/draws
root2, Astronominoff
Intimate with Increment
Intimate with Increment
Highest percentage of moves played with < 1 min left
AACtrl
45%
pepepibote, Sesquipedalism
Musing or Snoozing
Musing or Snoozing
Longest time spent on a move
AlexGaul
Spent 16m 38s
AlexGaul, pepepibote
MVP Award
MVP Award
Best performance rating relative to initial rating
Zerque
+4-2=1 perf 1891, initially 1628
FunkSoulBrother, guingil
Primates of Precision
Primates of Precision
Most games < 10 ACPL
jackaardvark
2 games
Rookie Award
Rookie Award
Best relative perf. by a new league player
SouzaMoraes
+1-3=0 perf 1470, initially 1130
Zerque, FunkSoulBrother
Tarjan Award
Tarjan Award
Achieved the biggest upset
SouzaMoraes
https://lichess.org/r8RTzhaY (rating gap: 457)
darubaru, samkellett
Tetrarch of Time
Tetrarch of Time
Spent the most clock time across the season
root2
4h 7m 59s
UncleVinny, Tellerwascher

Stats 📚

This table shows players’ relative performance ratings – that is, their performance rating over the season minus their initial rating before their first game.3 Includes everyone with a positive relative performance rating over at least five games.

#
Player
Games
W
D
L
Initial
Perf
Diff.
1
Zerque
7
4
1
2
1628
1891
263
2
FunkSoulBrother
6
2
1
3
1382
1584
202
3
guingil
5
3
0
2
1478
1678
200
4
AlexGaul
8
6
0
2
1876
2042
166
5
Gingersquirrelnuts
7
3
0
4
1449
1585
136
6
jackaardvark
7
3
0
4
1314
1450
136
7
prentice_sloth
7
4
0
3
1698
1819
121
8
UncleVinny
8
4
0
4
1492
1590
98
9
lnt
6
3
1
2
1705
1800
95
10
darubaru
6
2
0
4
1296
1382
86
1–10 of 18 rows

All players who played at least five games and achieved a season ACPL in the 20th percentile or below.

Rank
Player
Games
Season ACPL
1
Michael-Westen
7
36.1
2
eie24
7
39.9
3
Tellerwascher
8
40.0
4
supermaths
8
44.0
5
AlexGaul
8
47.8
6
root2
8
49.0
7
jackaardvark
7
52.8
8
Zerque
7
54.3
9
ztraynor
8
57.6
10
UncleVinny
8
60.2
1–10 of 20 rows

The 10 players who spent the most clock time over the season.

Rank
Player
Games
Total time spent
1
root2
8
4h 7m 59s
2
UncleVinny
8
3h 46m 6s
3
Tellerwascher
8
3h 45m 40s
4
mmatros
8
3h 37m 32s
5
SycoraxCirce
8
3h 29m 55s
6
Gingersquirrelnuts
7
3h 17m 4s
7
AACtrl
7
3h 12m 53s
8
pepepibote
7
3h 11m 46s
9
supermaths
8
3h 9m 52s
10
prentice_sloth
7
3h 7m 8s

Everyone who defeated an opponent who outrated them by at least 100 points.

1–10 of 18 rows

About

  • This report was compiled on 07 March 2022.
  • These statistics are presented for general interest only. They are not guaranteed to be comprehensive, complete4, accurate, or up to date. They may be periodically revised to incorporate updates and bugfixes.
  • Any player determined by Lichess to have violated their Terms of Service when this report was compiled should not appear in the detailed statistics.5
  • Homepage / source code
  • Acknowledgements: Noun Project for the award icons; Simon Ilincev for chess_graph, which produces the openings sunburst plots.

  1. Clock time is the sum of both players’ move times from move 2 onwards.↩︎

  2. Aces: all players who achieved a plus/minus score - wins minus losses - of +6 or better over the season. Archbishop of Accuracy: the player with the lowest average centipawn loss (ACPL) over the season, accounting for moves played. For the Chess960 league stats, these calculations are based on Lichess game analysis figures, which are in turn sourced from Lichess server analysis. Players must play at least five games in the season to qualify. Giri Award: named for Anish Giri. Grischuk’s Cousin: named for Alexander Grischuk. Houdini Award: the player with the most comeback “points” over the season - players earn 1 point for winning a game after being in a position with an evaluation worse than -6, 0.7 points for winning after being worse than -3, 0.5 points for drawing after being worse than -6, and 0.3 points for drawing after being worse than -3. MVP Award: players must play at least five games to qualify, and perf. ratings are calculated using FIDE’s method. Primates of Precision: based on Lichess game analysis ACPLs. Rookie Award: to be eligible, players must have played at least four games in the season and not have played in any previous 960 league season. Tarjan Award: named for James Tarjan, who famously defeated Vladimir Kramnik in 2017. Other: all other awards should be self-explanatory.↩︎

  3. The season performance ratings presented in this report may differ slightly from ratings published on the Lichess4545 website, but both calculations are based on FIDE’s preferred method, and both exclude unplayed games such as forfeit wins/losses and scheduling draws.↩︎

  4. For example, this report excludes from its analysis all games of less than 5 plies (half-moves), games that ended in a disconnection or by “cheat detected”, games that were aborted, and games that started from a custom position.↩︎

  5. However, players who were banned from the Lichess4545 leagues after finishing a season in the top three places are still shown with a podium place in that season’s report.↩︎