diff --git a/autoPyTorch/pipeline/components/training/metrics/metrics.py b/autoPyTorch/pipeline/components/training/metrics/metrics.py
index b669e4ede..0d82b9622 100644
--- a/autoPyTorch/pipeline/components/training/metrics/metrics.py
+++ b/autoPyTorch/pipeline/components/training/metrics/metrics.py
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@
                                     worst_possible_result=MAXINT,
                                     greater_is_better=False)
 r2 = make_metric('r2',
-                 sklearn.metrics.r2_score)
+                 sklearn.metrics.r2_score,
+                 worst_possible_result=-MAXINT)
 
 # Standard Classification Scores
 accuracy = make_metric('accuracy',