The 2025 standings can be found here: https://sabgalive.streamlit.app/

The SABGA Round Robin Leagues seek to find the best South African backgammon players on the globe, through an annual Season of quarterly Round Robin league series. Over the course of a year, over 60 players, playing in 8 league groups from A-League down to the ‘guppy pond’, players will move up (and down) the ranks, competing for over R20 000 in prize-money and the main prize: a trophy for the top player in each year.

After a year-long sabbatical, these leagues are the realisation of a dream for a joining together of Cape Town Backgammon and Johannesburg Backgammon under the title of South African Backgammon Association (SABGA).

The vision is to establish a system to help identify the strongest South African Backgammon players around the world. In part, to select the best team for international events – such as the annual WBIF Online Team Champs – but also, for bragging rights.

While online backgammon is not everyone’s favourite form of the game, it DOES offer a couple of major conveniences, consistency, speed and ease of management. Every match is automatically transcribed and the valuable match data is automatically digitised: the match score, Performance Rating (PR) and luck scores for both players.

A Performance Rating (PR) is a best measure of a player’s ability, especially as more and more games are played and an average (and trend line) can be established. Ideally, the A-League will consist of a group of players who consistently perform at a very high level, and get better and better over time, towards the improvement of South African backgammon standards.

Hopefully, the 2025 Leagues is the start of something exciting, competitive, social and inclusive and offers a means for more and more South Africans to come together ‘over the board’.

The full set of rules can be found here: SABGA Round Robin Leagues 2025 – rules, etc v5.2.

The latest standings can be found online here: https://sabgalive.streamlit.app/