The DOTS Calculator scores a confirmed total or adds your best squat, bench press and deadlift. Enter bodyweight and lift units separately and choose the named coefficient category.
Interpreting DOTS points
DOTS points combine a confirmed lifted total with a bodyweight-adjustment coefficient. Enter the total directly or add the best squat, bench press and deadlift. The three-lift mode adds actual recorded performances; it does not infer maximum lifts from repetition sets. Select the men’s or women’s coefficient basis and record bodyweight and lifting units independently. The score describes the selected mathematical protocol. It is not a population percentile, training prescription or an eligibility decision.
Use recorded lifts or a recorded total, rather than a repetition-max prediction.
Keep the coefficient basis and any source clamp attached to the reported points.
DOTS worked example
The men’s preset uses 90 bodyweight and a 500 confirmed total. It returns ≈ 323.30 on the DOTS basis. Its coefficient is approximately 0.646600828, multiplied by the confirmed total in kilograms.
The women’s preset uses 60 bodyweight and a 350 total. It returns ≈ 387.99 . The three-lift preset adds 200 squat, 125 bench press and 225 deadlift. Its total is 550 and its score is ≈ 355.63 . Values displayed as approximate are rounded; the engine retains unrounded points.
Coefficient limits and weight units
This calculator converts entered masses to kilograms, then follows the cited OpenPowerlifting implementation’s explicit bodyweight bounds before calculating its coefficient. DOTS uses 40–210 for the men’s coefficients and 40–150 for the women’s coefficients. Entered weights outside those source bounds are accepted within the tool’s input capacity, but the coefficient uses the nearest source boundary. Both entered and adjusted weights remain visible.
One international avoirdupois pound is exactly 0.45359237 under the NIST definition. Bodyweight and total can use different entered units; the calculator converts each separately. The coefficient is evaluated from the named source polynomial, and points equal the confirmed kilogram total multiplied by that coefficient. DOTS uses a fourth-degree polynomial and normalization 500. Calculation details identify the applied coefficient and source-adjusted bodyweight.
The local input capacity is bodyweight from 0.01 through 1000, with individual lifts and the combined total from zero through 10000, measured in the selected lifting unit. Numeric entries accept at most 64 characters and 20 decimal places and must retain their canonical decimal value. These parser limits are separate from the coefficient source bounds.
DOTS, Wilks and competition context
DOTS and Wilks adjust the same confirmed performance through different polynomials and source bounds. Similar names do not make their scores interchangeable. This calculator follows the named OpenPowerlifting DOTS implementation, including its explicit clamp behavior; it does not claim that every competition uses that behavior.
A competition may use a different coefficient system or eligibility rule. Check that event’s rule before treating these points as its official result. This page applies no age multiplier, IPF GL adjustment or general novice-to-elite scale. A score from this formula does not establish where a lifter ranks in the general population. The One Rep Max Calculator estimates loads from repetition sets and answers a different job.
For scores requiring the original or March 2020 revised Wilks protocol, the Wilks Calculator reports both named scales and their coefficient limits.