It’s hard to believe that 2025 is already coming to a close as we wrap up another season of Competitive Cribbage in Autumn 2025. With that behind us, the Winter 2026 Season of Cribbage Pro Competitive Matchmaking is now fully underway!
Autumn 2025 is officially in the books, marking another strong season with player participation and match volume holding steady compared to our record-breaking Summer 2025 run. Below you’ll find the full results for Autumn 2025, followed by a brief overview of some of the improvements rolling out for Winter 2026.
Autumn 2025
As the Cribbage Pro competitive matchmaking continues to improve and grow as the largest cribbage tournament anywhere, thank you all for your participation and feedback that keeps making it better all the time! A good example of that has been the changes introduced in Autumn 2025, which I think has not just helped improve the system itself, but also provided some clarity around the requirements to everyone who participates.
The final official Autumn 2025 results have "yank29" earning 1st place (past 5th place finisher). 2nd place went to "Dhrun" (a past 1st place finisher who nearly made 1st here with an unlucky loss near the very end of the season), with "hillchem" (past 6th place finisher) rounding out the top three. All three are long time Cribbage Pro players as well. Several others in the Top 50 may look familiar, but we also saw a real growth in new faces making the Top 50 this season too. Our honorable mentions this season go to "Domerzag" who moved up 35 places from last season, "tbrasa" who moved up 21 and to "dph" and "MC2b" who both moved up 15 places from last season. Congratulations to all on their hard work this season!
Special awards for the Top 50 players include in-game board pegs: the top player receives the "crown" peg, while others in the Top 50 get the "star" peg. These pegs are prominently displayed in online multiplayer games, serving as permanent badges of distinction earned through competitive play.
Reminder: Complete 10 matches per week, and 10 per full week of the season!
See the FAQ for details on the timing each week
See the FAQ for details on the timing each week
Here was the final Top 50 for Autumn 2025:
| 1 | yank29 | 26 | dkatz1877 | |
| 2 | Dhrun | 27 | Farthing9 | |
| 3 | hillchem | 28 | UberPooch | |
| 4 | cyrusg | 29 | Dirtyneck | |
| 5 | Gssj21 | 30 | Crackula | |
| 6 | rattle15 | 31 | meroflax | |
| 7 | pegmstr77 | 32 | jschu11 | |
| 8 | Mrpadre | 33 | birds12 | |
| 9 | Br1Guy | 34 | BearJoo | |
| 10 | Pedalo | 35 | Deel1 | |
| 11 | Domerzag | 36 | scout3 | |
| 12 | Yeldud123 | 37 | keegw | |
| 13 | Natashaki | 38 | catpat | |
| 14 | jeezumjan | 39 | jwr13 | |
| 15 | tbrasa | 40 | rimer0329 | |
| 16 | AliLFND | 41 | 0ffpiste | |
| 17 | Hooker254 | 42 | kpcrib123 | |
| 18 | vegasbrad | 43 | PeggyBree | |
| 19 | card55 | 44 | vJimc | |
| 20 | carbbige | 45 | Synnova | |
| 21 | greyday | 46 | ElbowsUp | |
| 22 | dph | 47 | drg151 | |
| 23 | Jahmez13 | 48 | Paludeja | |
| 24 | MC2b | 49 | TLC1966 | |
| 25 | Parlyvooo | 50 | hunterIT |
Updates for Winter 2026
For Winter 2026, we’ve tightened the matchmaking algorithm to improve what qualifies as a “good match,” and added several internal adjustments designed to keep pushing match quality even higher. Remember that comparing only the CR difference between two players doesn’t fully capture what makes a match balanced. Some CR gaps will naturally be larger than others even when the underlying match quality calculation is similar.
Because of these improvements, you may occasionally notice longer matchmaking wait times, and possibly more so toward the end of the season. If those delays become too disruptive and aren’t delivering the benefits we expect, we may scale back some of the changes to ensure matches are still created in a reasonable time frame. Ultimately, the more players who jump in, the faster matchmaking becomes for everyone, so keep inviting friends and family to join the fun!
Lastly, a quick reminder that we’re still transitioning away from backend and system work. New features are continuing to move forward, but progress is slower than we’d like. This behind-the-scenes maintenance is essential for overall stability, even if it’s not the most exciting part of development. As we gradually shift back toward new feature development later this year and into 2026, we appreciate your continued patience and support.
As always, thank you all so much for participating and for your suggestions that keep improving the game for everyone!
I know that your ranking system is proprietary, but could you specify whether pegging decisions are somehow factored in? I'd like to have a better understanding of what contributes to a player's CR level beyond win/loss ratio and presumably hand grade.
ReplyDeleteFor example: if you lose after being dealt terrible cards, but you made optimal selections and played as well as possible in the pegging rounds, does this mitigate the CR loss?
Thanks for the great app, looking forward to a great Winter 2026 CM season.
The system today is only concerned with if you win or lose the Best of 3 series. As a series, it hopes to somewhat mitigate the luck (or bad luck) factors, and particularly over the several matches played in the season. The particulars about how the games were won or lost are not a factor in the adjustments to the CR.
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