Roblox Competitive Leaderboards and Elo Rankings on Discord

Setting up a Roblox leaderboard

The decisions that are specific to Roblox. Everything else follows the general setup guide.

1. 1

   Pick the shape before the settings

   Roblox experiences are far more varied in format than anything else on this site, and almost all the setup follows from which one you have. Duels and 1v1 arenas want Player (Specific Format) at 1v1. Team objective modes want the same rating type at your team size with a /queue_versus. Round-based, tag and last-one-standing modes are free-for-alls — those want /queue_ffa and placements, not a winner.

2. 2

   Get the admin out of the recording loop

   This is the setting that decides whether the ladder is still alive next month. AI Screenshot Recording reads an end-of-round scoreboard and fills the result in, so a player can record without an admin present. If your community has a developer, the REST API is better still — anything that can make an HTTP request can record a match, and a Roblox experience can post its own results out through HttpService. No other game on this list can report itself.

3. 3

   Make alt accounts unprofitable

   Use /set_rating player to place an obvious returning smurf where they belong rather than letting them farm their way up through everyone below them, and watch the leaderboard for the pattern of a new account with a very high win rate against a narrow set of opponents. The ladder cannot see Roblox account age, so the moderation has to be social — but it is much easier when the match history makes farming visible.

4. 4

   One leaderboard per experience

   If your server covers several Roblox games — and most do — give each one its own leaderboard rather than pooling them. Ratings only mean something relative to a fixed population playing a fixed thing, and a combined board mostly measures who played the most of whichever game was easiest that week.

5. 5

   Plan for turnover with seasons

   Roblox rosters turn over faster than any other community type here. A season rollover archives the standings and starts a fresh board, which both gives returning players a reachable ladder and stops the top being permanently held by someone who stopped playing in March. Six to eight weeks is a reasonable first guess.