Badminton seasons

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Continental Games is the Asian, Commonwealth, European, Pan American and African Games — the individual events only — and it sits half a rung above the Continental Championships: the same circle of countries, one every four years rather than every year. BWF has filed the Asian Games under four different categories and under none at all, so they are recognised by name; the team editions are separate tournaments and are left out with every other team event. Sub-regional games — East Asian, Mediterranean, SEA — are not in it.

Unmapped is everything from before 2007, and it has no rung because there was no ladder. Until the Superseries began that season the circuit was the IBF World Grand Prix, which graded its events 6-star down to 1-star by prize money alone — and the money was not the prestige: the 2006 All England was a 4-star on $125,000, two rungs under the China Masters at $250,000. Nothing turns a purse into a tier, so these titles are shown together, last, in one section that says plainly that its placing is a guess. BWF's own filing is no help: of 85 tournaments from before 2007, checked across six careers of that era, 77 carry the same category id — one bucket holding a world championship, an All England and a $3,000 satellite alike.
Results stop at 2006 because that is where BWF's own records stop carrying a position. Earlier seasons come back as a list of tournaments with no result beside them, and a cell that can only say “Played” is not a career.

Each block is one level, and the cells in it are that season's results at that level, best first — not one column per tournament. A block is as wide as the most anyone here played at that level in a single season, so the empty cells on the right of a block are events they did not enter that year. Hover any cell for the tournament and the result.
Export draws whichever view is up to a PNG at twice the screen's density, with the link on it. There is no range to pick, unlike the Winners board: it draws what is on screen — the era, the level chips, the round bar, and both players if there are two — so switching a level off takes it out of the picture as well as off the page. ←→ page · G grid · H honours · W World Tour · S Superseries · ↑↓ levels — up adds the highest that is off, down drops the lowest that is on

* BWF ships no name for its pre-2018 categories, so results from the Superseries era are placed on the tier they became, traced through the tournaments themselves: Superseries Premier as Super 1000, Superseries as Super 750, Grand Prix Gold as Super 300 and Grand Prix as Super 100. Those squares carry a notch out of one corner, and hovering one says what it actually was. The Seasons page never translates — there a Superseries Premier is called a Superseries Premier. Four old tiers become five new ones, so nothing lands on Super 500; and before 2011 there was no Premier tier at all, which makes a 2008 All England a rung lower than a 2013 one. Switch to Superseries above to read the ladder the other way.

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A score of 100 is the whole season — every title on the board that year, and nobody else with one. It is a share, so one player's rise is always somebody else's fall, and the seasons can be held against each other however many titles each of them held.
Not every title counts the same. Each is worth what its rung on the board is worth, on the same ladder the photographs above are sized by. So the score is not a second ranking; it is the board's own ranking, added up. A Super 750 is the unit: Seven Super 750s to an Olympic gold, which is about the trade anybody who has watched the sport would make. The rungs step by φ, the golden ratio — 1.618, except for four half steps of √φ — 1.272: a Tour Finals over a Super 1000, a Continental Games over a Continental Championships, and each global event over its own continental one is a full step, but the Olympics over the Worlds is half. That is what puts two continental rungs on the ladder and still leaves an Olympic gold at 6.854. Seasons before 2018 are weighed on the same rungs and named for what they were called at the time — 2013 held twelve Superseries where 2023 holds six Super 750s — so a title is never called something it was not, and never weighed on a ladder of its own.
⚠️ A competitor has a point only in the seasons they won something. This data says who won, not who entered, so “nothing in 2013” and “not on the tour in 2013” cannot be told apart — and a line drawn along the bottom would be claiming the first while knowing only the second. Lines break at the gaps, and a lone season stays a lone face.
⚠️ In the doubles draws a competitor is the pair, not the two people in it. A title is won by a partnership; halving it would draw every pair as two identical lines and make the chart describe people rather than teams. So a partner change ends one line and starts another — which is what happened.
⚠️ A faint column is a season not to read at face value, named at its foot. Two different things put one there. An asterisk on the year means far fewer titles than the seasons around it — 2020, which stopped in March and held three, and 2022, which held eight. And the pandemic seasons are marked whether or not they were short: 2020, 2021 and 2022. 2021 is the one a count cannot find — it held ten, the same as 2018 and 2019, and what was wrong with it was not how many but who was in the draw. A score is a share, so a thinner field flatters everybody left in it: eight of 2021's eleven events had literally no Chinese player — both Thailand Opens, the All England, the French, both Indonesia events and both World Tour Finals — against a normal 12–15% of the field. 2020 is split by the shutdown: the All England on 11 March had an ordinary field, the October Denmark Open and the January-2021 Finals none at all. 2022 is the weakest case and is in on a judgement — present everywhere but at three quarters of normal, on a calendar cut to eight events from twelve.
⚠️ The season being played is weighed against the whole year, not against the part of it that has happened. Otherwise whoever won the first tournament of January would have taken 100 of the season — and the strip below the axis says 8/12 rather than 8 so you can see it. The titles still to come belong to nobody yet, so the column adds up to less than a whole season and will only rise: it cannot flatter anyone, which is what makes it safe to count. Finished seasons keep the titles that were actually played — 2020 is a share of three, not of the nine still on the calendar when it was abandoned.
The bars under the axis are how many titles each season held, and a dashed leg is a line crossing one of the marked years.
Show hides the crowd: it draws everybody whose best season clears the bar. Its default is worked out from the data — as high as it will go without dropping anybody who ever led a season — and the season being played is left out of that sum, because a part-played year cannot say who led it.
Dominators ranks the whole board rather than a season of it, and there are three honest ways to do that. Total is every season's share added up: it rewards staying there, and it is why LEE Chong Wei is second in the men's singles on a best season of 43. Peak is the best single season: it rewards the year nobody else got a look in, and it is why KIM / SEO are first in the men's doubles on two seasons and eighth on total. Both numbers are always on screen and only the sort moves, because the two orderings disagree and the disagreement is the point — a table showing one column at a time would have hidden it.
Best seasons ranks the seasons themselves, and it is the one where a competitor can appear more than once. The other two answer once per career, so a career's second-best year is invisible in them however good it was: Kento MOMOTA took 78 of 2019 and 53 of 2018 — the first and fifth best men's singles seasons on the board — and Peak can only ever say the first of those. Five seasons, and two of them among the best anyone has played. The hover carries the career total the columns drop, which is what makes a short peak read as one.
⚠️ It is a different question, not a better answer, which is why it is a third chip rather than a replacement. A list of the best seasons is crowded by the people who had them — six competitors hold the top fifteen men's singles seasons, and KIDAMBI Srikanth, tenth on Peak, is twenty-eighth here. That is what the list is; it simply stops being a ranking of competitors while it does it, and the ranking of competitors is one chip away. Picking a name still picks the competitor, so clicking one of MOMOTA's seasons lights both.
⚠️ There is deliberately no average. It is the obvious third column and it would be a lie. This data says who won, not who entered, so a competitor has a point only in the seasons they won something — the seasons they played and won nothing are missing from the divisor rather than sitting in it as zeroes. One good year and nothing else would out-rank a fifteen-year career, and the number would be describing the hole in the data rather than the players. It is the same fact that makes the lines above break at a gap instead of running along the bottom.
⚠️ The pandemic seasons get the same denominator as every other season. What is most obviously wrong with 2020 is arithmetic before it is competition: three titles were played, so one of them would be a third of the year. So 2020 and 2022 are weighed against what a full season of the era was worth — nineteen and a third Super 750s, twelve titles, read off the seasons the file holds rather than typed in, and exactly the figure 2023 and 2025 are weighed against. A season cut short then reads as the fraction of a year it actually was. Viktor AXELSEN's career total is 269; against 2020's own three titles it would read 315. The strip under the axis says 3/12, the way the year still being played does.
⚠️ The thin field stays in the record, and that is deliberate. Fewer Chinese players entered, so fewer Chinese players won, so their scores are lower and everybody else's are higher — and that is what happened. What the denominator removes is the arithmetical distortion, not the sporting one: a player who won one of 2020's three titles cannot bank more than one title's worth of a whole year, because the rest of the year was never played and nobody won it. The seasons are marked wherever they appear — a faint column, the word Covid, an amber asterisk on the year and an amber bar in the strip beneath it, and the same asterisk on the season in the ranking below — so you know not to read them as ordinary, and then you do the judging.
⚠️ That mark is on the season, never on the competitor. A peak taken in 2021 is a peak taken in a year played largely without one country's team; that is a fact about the year, and the player did nothing to earn an asterisk of their own. There used to be one beside the name — it meant "this career is being under-counted" and it went when the seasons stopped being set aside.
⚠️ It is a calendar correction and it cannot see a field. Two things were wrong with these years — fewer events, and a thinner draw at the ones that ran — and this fixes only the first. 2021 is where that shows: it held more than a normal season by weight, an Olympics and a Worlds and two World Tour Finals, so it is left exactly as it was — and 2021 had the thinnest field of the three, eight of its eleven events with no Chinese player in the draw at all. AXELSEN's peak sits in that season. Known, and the reason those marks on the chart are not decoration.
⚠️ The Show bar does not reach this table. The bar filters on peak, and a total ranking cut by peak is a different claim: at the men's singles default it draws twelve of the forty-five careers listed here, and it drops Jan O JORGENSEN — four seasons, twelfth on total — for a best season of 7. The bar declutters the chart; the ranking is the whole board. Clicking a name picks it out everywhere, and if the bar was hiding them the bar comes down to fit. Click a name to pin it — or click the face on the chart, which is the same name with a season attached and does the same thing. The others stay on the chart, dimmed, because a share means nothing without the people it was taken from. Click again to unpin, or press Esc to clear the lot.
Export draws whatever range of seasons you pick to a PNG at twice the screen's density, with the link on it — the bar you set and the names you pinned included, because those are what the picture is about. Cropping changes what is shown and never what is counted: a score is a share of its own season, so the numbers, the colours and the height of the axis are all settled over the whole board and then cut to the years you asked for. ←→ page · Y year · B board · S score · MWX discipline, twice for the doubles · ↑↓ the bar · T total · P peak · N best seasons · Esc unpick

One season, one column per tournament, left to right in the order they were played. Three rows: the champion, the runner-up, and the two who lost in the semi-finals. The Board view simplifies twenty seasons so they can be read side by side; this is the other half of that trade — one season, at the depth the simplification gave up.
Size means how far they got, and nothing else. The winner of a Super 500 is drawn exactly as large as the winner of the Olympics, because the question here is how far each person got at each event, and a size that meant two things at once would answer neither. The level is in the column header instead: a gold numeral for the World Tour rungs, sized by what that tier is worth, and the same two marks the Board uses for the two titles that are not a number — the rings for an Olympics, the cup for a World Championships. The Tour Finals, a continental championships and the whole Superseries era get a word, because BWF never gave those tiers a number to draw.
An empty column says which kind of empty it is, and there are three kinds. Most of a season drawn in the autumn has not been played yet. Some tournaments were played and have no result at all. And some finished after this board was last harvested, which is not a fact about badminton but a fact about this page — those are hatched in blue and say so on hover, with the harvest date in the line above the board.
⚠️ The data behind this page is a photograph, not a feed. It is collected by hand and committed, so the heading says as of a date — and on 2 November 2026 that date was twelve days old, with the French Open and the HYLO Open both finished and both drawn as holes. They read "BWF has no result", which was the page asserting something untrue about BWF rather than admitting something true about itself. A column whose tournament ended after the harvest ran now says exactly that.
⚠️ No result is not always a gap in the records. Fifteen of 2020's twenty-one tournaments have none because they were cancelled — that season is what a pandemic looks like on a calendar, not a failed harvest. Three continental championships of 2014 are the other case: played, and missing from BWF's own archive. Nothing in the data tells the two apart, so the page says the one thing it can prove — that there is no result — and leaves the reason to the reader who knows the year.
Third and fourth are only in order where a match decided it. The Olympics plays a bronze play-off, so its two semi-final losers really are a third and a fourth and are numbered; a tour event does not, so the pair share third place and no order is implied. A medal can also be won without a match — Carolina MARIN withdrew injured from her Paris 2024 semi-final and the bronze play-off was never played — and there is nothing in BWF's data that tells that apart from a shared third, so the page draws them level.
⚠️ In the doubles draws a cell holds the pair, split down the middle, exactly as a square does on the Board, and the pair is one competitor — one cell, one row in the ledger. A cell is one competitor and a column is two cells wide, because the semi-final row holds two of them.
Click a face to follow one competitor across the season — everything else recedes and the picked faces stay lit. The ledger under the board picks the same way, and it is the answer the board can only imply: how many of these a person won, lost, or lost a semi-final of. Press Esc for the whole season back.
⚠️ The continental chips are shared with the Board, and they start on Asia and Europe there for a reason that is about the Board's score rather than about this drawing — so a 2026 season opens on 24 of its 27 tournaments and the Oceania, African and Pan Am championships are one click away. One control cannot honestly mean two things, so it means the Board's.
⚠️ Super 500 and above. Which costs nothing before 2018: four old tiers became five and Super 500 is the one nothing maps to, so in the Superseries era this floor lands on exactly the Board's own set. A Super 300 chip is where that stops being true and the era question has to be answered, which is why there is not one yet.
⚠️ The season-ending Finals belongs to the season it concludes. COVID pushed the 2020 edition to 27 January 2021, so it is drawn on the 2020 board with an asterisk saying where it was really played — the same rule the Board and the career grid already follow. Y year · B board · S score · MWX discipline, twice for the doubles · Esc unpick

Each square is a title, sized by what it was worth — the same ladder the honours board uses, so a Super 1000 here is a Super 1000 there. Every row holds two tiers: Olympics with the World Championships, Continental Games with Continental Championships, the Tour Finals with the Super 1000s, and the Super 750s have the base to themselves. Six rows of faces is a column too tall to read as one picture — and most people would agree a Tour Finals is not worth much more than a Super 1000, which was always slightly absurd alone on a line holding exactly one square.
Every square on a line is the same size, and a gold ring says which one outranks the rest. Two sizes on a row of faces read as a layout accident rather than as a ranking, which is why the Olympics has been drawn at the Worlds size with a ring since this board was built; now that three rows hold two tiers, that is the rule. One marked square beside a plain one is the ranking, and ringing both would make them a matched pair in two liveries. The ladder still ranks them apart between rows, and the honours board on the Compare page ranks all of them apart by size, because that is a claim about worth and this is a row of portraits.
A row reads hardest first, not oldest first: the Tour Finals leads the row it shares even though it is played in December. The continental row goes by continent instead — Asian Games, Asian Championships, European Games, European Championships — because two titles from the same confederation belong beside each other.
⚠️ In the doubles draws a square holds the pair, split down the middle — half a photograph each, and each half is the middle of its own photograph rather than one player's left ear and the other's right. The square stays the size the ladder says it is: a doubles title is won by a partnership, and every square on this board has to mean the same thing. Above the square the pair is one competitor — one tile, one bar, one line on the score — so a player who changes partner starts again, which is the honest reading: the old team stopped winning and a new one started. And a pair is always drawn the same way round: BWF does not list a partnership consistently — Kido and Setiawan appear eleven times one way and once the other — so the page takes the federation's own commonest order for each pair and uses it everywhere. No convention is layered on top of that; BWF itself puts the woman first in some mixed pairs and the man first in others, and this says what the federation says.
Click a square to follow one competitor across the board — everything else recedes and the picked faces stay lit. Click more to compare them, click a lit one again to drop it, or press Esc to get the whole board back. The bars in the eras band pick the same way, and so do the faces on the score chart. The squares themselves stay: what fades is the photographs, so the shape of every season is still there to read behind them.
⚠️ No team events. A team title would rank a player by the country they were born in, which is not what any of this measures.
⚠️ The continental chips move the score, not just the drawing. Asia, Europe, Pan Am, Africa and Oceania each switch their own championships and their own four-yearly games in or out — and a continent that is off is not in the season's denominator either, so the scores you are reading are always a share of exactly the board in front of you. That is the point: a ranking of the greats with a continent counted that you did not ask for is a ranking you cannot trust. Asia and Europe are on by default, because of the 1210 titles here that are open to the world, Asia has won 89.3% and Europe 10.5% — Pan Am, Africa and Oceania have two between them. Switch all five off and this is the board as it stood before October 2026. The chips travel in the link, so a board you send shows the numbers you were looking at.
⚠️ The Commonwealth Games is not here, and no chip can bring it. It spans four of those five confederations, so there is no continent that owns it — and a title no chip governs is one whose weight would sit in every denominator with no way to take it out. BWF's own calendar also has no individual entry for Glasgow 2014, only the mixed team event, so a row for it would show a hole that is a gap in the records rather than a fact about the sport. It is still on a player's own Compare grid, where the question is what that player won.
⚠️ Seasons before 2018 are drawn on the modern ladder — a Superseries Premier where a Super 1000 goes, a Superseries where a Super 750 goes — and each square is named for what it was called at the time, so hovering a 2013 title says Superseries Premier and the same rung in 2023 says Super 1000. Before 2011 there was no Premier tier at all: all twelve Superseries were one rank, so 2007–2010 fill both rows with squares of the same size. The equal size is the point — a larger top row would claim a tier that did not exist for another four years.
⚠️ The continental rows are complete from 2014 and patchy before it. BWF's own records carry no order of play for most of the continental championships between 2007 and 2013 — there is nothing to read a winner from — so 64 of the 100 that were held are on this board and the rest are simply absent. An empty continental row in 2009 is a gap in the records, not a season without an Asian Championships. It costs one career in particular: LEE Chong Wei's one continental title is the 2016 Asian Championships, and the seasons where he might have added to it are the ones that are missing.
⚠️ And the board starts at 2007 because that is where the ladder starts. Before the Superseries the circuit was the IBF World Grand Prix, which graded its events 6-star down to 1-star by prize money alone — and the money was not the prestige: the 2006 All England was a 4-star on $125,000 while the China Masters was a 6-star on $250,000. Sizing those squares by what they paid would draw an All England two rungs below a China Masters, so they are not drawn at all rather than drawn wrong. Those seasons are still on the Seasons and Compare pages, grouped as Unmapped.
⚠️ A dashed square, and ⁕ beside the year, mark a title that did not happen when its name says. The season-ending Finals belongs to the season it concludes, so the 2010 Superseries Finals and the 2020 World Tour Finals are drawn in 2010 and 2020 though both were played the following January — the same rule the career grid uses, so the two views cannot disagree. The Tokyo 2020 Olympics stays in 2021, where it was won: a Finals is the conclusion of a season already played, and an Olympics is not the conclusion of anything.
Eras draws a bar across every run of seasons in which somebody won at least three of the titles above — four or five on the picker, one colour per career, and the totals on the hover. Bars overlap on purpose: LEE Chong Wei's decade runs under LIN Dan's and then CHEN Long's, and naming one champion a year would erase exactly that. Runs are consecutive seasons only, so a dip is a gap and 2020 severs every line.
Export draws whatever range of seasons you pick — the pyramid, the band and all — to a PNG at twice the screen's density, with the link on it. It is drawn from the data rather than photographed off the page, so it comes out the same size whatever the zoom slider is on. Anyone you have picked out goes into the picture, with their names at the foot of it — a board with one pair followed across it is a different thing to send than the board. ←→ page · Y year · B board · S score · MWX discipline, twice for the doubles · E eras · ↑↓ the bar · Esc unpick

Tournament

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Draws

One column per court, and down each one the matches in the order they are played — a row is a moment, so two cards level with each other were on court together, within a quarter of an hour. An empty cell means nothing started on that court at that moment: usually it is still playing the match above, and at the foot of a column it is the court with one match more to get through than its neighbours. Which is not the same as sorting the day by the clock: BWF publishes a start for the first match of each session and then strings a flat 50-minute estimate through the rest, which on some courts runs backwards. Estimated times are marked ≈ and carry BWF's own Followed by or Court and time TBA; a published start — Starting at, Not before — never is. A match saying Not published where the names go has been played and scored: BWF sometimes drops the players from a match for the rest of the day it was played on, and they come back the next day. Click a match to star it — starred matches stay lit and the rest stay dimmed, so a handful of them read at a glance across a whole day. While a tournament is on, the scores are checked every minute and anything that moved is marked for a few minutes after. ←→ page · O order of play · B bracket · ↑↓ day · MWX discipline, twice for the doubles · S starred only

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