MPGR Summer 2022

The MPGR Summer 2022 lists the best 50 players in North America for Super Smash Bros. Melee.

On November 19th, PGStats announced that the rankings were to resume on January 1st, 2022. However, the starting date was postponed due to the rising cases of COVID-19. On February 2nd, 2022, PGstats announced their plans on setting a new start date to March 1st and that they would be monitoring the state of the pandemic before giving a final confirmation on February 17th. Although the date came and passed without a confirmation, the season nevertheless began on March 1st and lasted until July 11th with, a month after the end of the PGRU v3. Due to a lack of major tournaments in Europe that season, only a North American list was produced.

Methodology
PGstats gave a group of 26 panelists made up of top players, tournament organizers, and analysts the following prompt:

"Based on quality and quantity of results from March 1, 2022 to July 11, 2022, rate each player on a scale of 10.0 (best) to 4.0. Who performed the best at offline events over the course of the season? You may give the benefit of the doubt to players who attended more events during the ranking period. You are expected to consider their results at regionals and majors. You may consider their results at out-of-region events. You may consider their results at serious invitationals, but keep in mind that players who qualified for reasons other than merit received an opportunity they otherwise may not have gotten. You may consider their results at locals ONLY IF they lack sufficient data for you to make an informed judgement without local results."

Panelists were allowed to abstain from scoring particular candidates if they felt they did not know enough about them without affecting the player's overall score. If enough panelists abstained on a candidate, they would be disqualified. This did not occur during this ranking. Once the scores were obtained, they would be normalized for consistency. Afterwards, each player's score would be calculated using a weighted average with higher weights given to an individual rating the closer it is to the interquartile mean of the given player's scores.

Panelists
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Rankings
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Area 51
Hours before they began unveiling the regular top 50 rankings, PGStats released a list of players who most closely missed the cut for the MPGR Summer 2022 top 50, known as "Area 51." They were unranked between each other, and as such are all considered to be effectively ranked #51. This marks the first time a major Melee power ranking did an "Area 51" list.

Trivia

 * Due to a formatting error, PGStats accidentally revealed 's MPGR ranking (25th) instead of 's (45th) on the graphic for MPGR ranks 50-31 posted on their Twitter account.
 * The MPGR for Summer 2022 marked a number of firsts for recognized global Melee rankings:
 * 's ranking of 4th marks the formal end of his 3-year reign as the number one player in the world.
 * 's ranking of 11th marks the first time he has been ranked outside of the top 10 for the entirety of his competitive career, with him previously ranking no lower than 6th.
 * 's ranking of 3rd is the highest ever debut on any recognized global rankings for Melee.
 * 's ranking (26th) over (29th) is the first time another  player has been ranked over Axe (albeit with a  secondary).
 * 's ranking of 18th marks the first appearance of a player listed with as a used character on a recognized global Melee ranking since  on the 2014 SSBMRank. However, listing Link as one of his characters is dubious, as Aklo was a  main whose only recorded Link usage in MPGR-qualifying events during the ranking season was in losses against  at  and Swift at . Since Lord HDL being listed as a Link player on the 2014 SSBMRank was similarly dubious, as he dropped Link in favor of Marth by 2014, there still hasn't been a legitimate Link user that made a recognized global Melee ranking.  Although he doesn't have any wins in the season, Aklo does use Link as a legitimate counterpick for FD.
 * became the first player to make the "Honorable Mention" list for two consecutive recognized global Melee rankings, as he was also listed as an Honorable Mention on the previous MPGR.
 * Fox main had  as a listed character, despite not winning any sets with Falcon at MPGR-qualifying events during the ranking season.