A leaderboard rank is not a payout rank, and sorting a table by stake should not renumber a model’s published rank. The nmrdash leaderboard preserves Numerai rank and displays the source snapshot date.
Revised September 8, 2026. Earlier current-ranking examples and legacy-only column guidance are retained in repository history, not presented as today’s standings.
Use the actual reputation field
Classic displays explicit CORR60 and MMC60 reputation fields. Crypto retains its CORR/MMC fields. Signals shows available Alpha/MPC and neutral-score fields. A missing new field remains missing; an older field with a similar name is not silently substituted.
Reputation also aggregates a history of scores. It is not the current round’s score and does not by itself determine a position’s payout. The metric reference lists the required horizon and version context.
Read returns against committed capital
Numerai’s published model/account return convention counts outcomes settled in a window against NMR actually committed, including initial locked capital and additional funding beyond reusable releases. Idle funds are excluded, and recycling a settled position does not repeatedly increase the funding basis. The upstream return definition is the authority for those columns.
That is distinct from the Rounds table, where net NMR is divided by that position’s principal without annualization. A 13-week return and an individual daily-round percentage need not agree even for the same model.
Rank changes require a dated cohort
A model may move because its score changed, its reputation definition changed, or other models entered or left the comparison. Historical rankings need the snapshot that existed at that time. I would not use today’s survivors to reconstruct an earlier leaderboard, or interpret a missing rank as an ordinal row number.
Method: this is a definition guide, not a current rank distribution or backtest. Columns are populated only from the corresponding upstream fields; numeric ordering in the interface applies to the displayed page.