The Team Building Score
The math behind how activities rank on teambuilding.com — points are earned, not bought.
How it works
Every listing on teambuilding.com carries a Team Building Score: a running points total, recalculated nightly, that determines how the listing ranks in browse and search. It is not a rating out of 100 — it is a sum of points earned two ways: the listing itself earns points (quality, completeness, bookings, reviews), and the vendor account behind it earns points (verification, insurance, an active catalog). The two totals are blended into one combined score, with the listing's own performance carrying the majority of the weight. The more a listing proves itself — real bookings, real reviews, high ratings, a complete profile — the higher it climbs.
What a listing earns points for
Examples from the live scoring system:
- Activate your listing +10
- Add 5 gallery images +5
- Add 10 gallery images +5 more
- Upload an approved video +10
- Add an event agenda +10
- List what's included with booking +10
- Add "You Should Know" details +10
- First confirmed booking +10
- Booking milestones (10, 20, 30, 40, 50) +10 each
- First review +10
- Review milestones (10 up to 500) +10 each
- Average review rating up to +50
- Each month active +1 (+2 with Boost)
- New-listing momentum (first 90 days) up to +90, decays daily
- Anniversary bonus (each year) up to +90, time-limited
What a vendor earns points for
Account-level trust signals:
- Create your vendor account +10
- Add a payment method +10
- Connect a payout method +10
- Certificate of insurance +5
- General liability insurance +5
- Workers' compensation insurance +5
- Maintain 2+ active listings +20
- Maintain 5+ active listings +50
- Refer another vendor +10 each
- A referred vendor goes live +5 each
Where subscriptions fit
Partners can pay for a Boost listing subscription, and we're transparent about what that does: subscription tier determines which placement group a listing appears in, and it unlocks access to more earnable points — Boost listings accrue double monthly tenure points, and annual plans carry a bonus. What a subscription can never do is buy the points themselves. Bookings, reviews, and ratings have to be earned the same way by everyone — including our own in-house Originals, which are scored by the same nightly math with no special treatment.
Best-of lists in our guides
When we publish ranked lists in our guides — like the Top 20 virtual Originals in our guide to virtual team building — the ranking is each event's Team Building Score, the same nightly points total described above. We add a quality gate on top: an event only qualifies for a ranked list once it has at least 30 post-event survey responses to every question, and we publish the survey outcomes — the percentage of participants who said the event made them happier, the percentage who felt more connected, and the participant Net Promoter Score — right next to each event so you can judge for yourself.
The data behind it
Every input is first-party: reviews are tied to confirmed bookings and verified reviewers, surveys go to actual participants, and flagged or policy-violating reviews never enter the score. Scores refresh nightly. Read more about our standards on the transparency page.