David Storey was fascinated by the long-term dynamics of regional entrepreneurship. For measuring such long-term dynamics, he favored rankings of regions according to their levels of entrepreneurial activity, which he called ‘entrepreneurial league tables’. One main advantage of comparing rank positions of regions over time is that this measure can be expected to be rather robust with regard to influences at the national level that affect all regions in more or less the same way. Therefore, changes in the regional entrepreneurship league table should reflect primarily regional rather than national influences. Another advantage of rankings is that due to their ordinal character, they are robust with regard to the effect of extreme cases (‘outliers’) that could distort the results if continuous metrics are used. Finally, rankings help mitigate biases in metrics arising from different measurement concepts.