Tools
DOTS Calculator
DOTS is a bodyweight-adjusted score that lets powerlifters in different weight classes be compared on one scale. Enter your total and bodyweight to get your DOTS score, plus Wilks and IPF GL, and see where it places you among real competition lifters on file.
Enter a bodyweight and total to see your score.
What is DOTS?
DOTS is a scoring formula used in powerlifting to compare lifters of different bodyweights. A heavier lifter and a lighter lifter with the same DOTS score are judged to have lifted equally well relative to their size.
DOTS vs Wilks
DOTS and Wilks adjust a total for bodyweight the same way, but DOTS uses newer coefficients fitted to modern competition results. It has largely replaced Wilks as the default score at many federations; the IPF uses its own IPF GL points instead.
How the score is computed
DOTS multiplies your total by a coefficient derived from your bodyweight and sex. The formula here matches the values OpenPowerlifting publishes, checked against the stored score on every entry in the dataset.