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Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby csprince

chengdufan wrote:2013 International Championship - Chengdu Eastern Music Park
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Inte ... ampionship

Ding Junhui won a third consecutive ranking title, the first time this had been achieved since 1993. In beating Marco Fu in the final, it was also the third consecutive all-Asian ranking event final.
Ding went 3-1 down early on, but recovered to win 10-9 compiling 5 century breaks and 2 90+ers.

16-year-old wildcard, Zhao Xintong, defeated Barry Hawkins to reach the last 16.

My memory of this event is being excited to get tickets to see Steve Davis v Craig Steadman in the opening round. I saw it as probably the last opportunity to watch Davis play a competitive match, and it would be against Steadman who is from my hometown.
I was bitterly disappointed that The Nugget then got drawn to play a wildcard and subsequently lost!
I did get quite an enjoyable experience though watching Zhao Xintong produce some amazing snooker (for a 16-year-old) to beat Steadman 6-2, with breaks of 109, 94, 72, 67 and 50.

QFs
Joe Perry (19) 6-1 Ryan Day (31)
Marco Fu (8) 6-5 Mark Selby (3)
Ding Junhui (4) 6-3 Peter Ebdon (51)
Graeme Dott (26) 6-3 Liang Wenbo (18)

SFs
Fu (8) 9-8 Perry (19)
Ding (4) 9-7 Dott (26)

Final
Ding (4) 10-9 Fu (8)


craig steadman from chendu who knew.

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby csprince

chengdufan wrote::chuckle: Steadman is from Farnworth, which is the part of Bolton I grew up in.


you mentioned being from bolton when we first started speaking on the forum. given i thought you were chinese.

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

2013 European PTC 6 (Kay Suzanne Memorial Cup) - The Capital Venue, Gloucester
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_ ... 93_Event_6

SFs
Judd Trump (4) 4-3 Jamie Jones (47)
Mark Allen (13) 4-2 Graeme Dott (20)

Final
Allen (13) 4-1 Trump (4)


Updated rankings

Top 16
1 = Neil Robertson 32821
2 = Ding Junhui 30488
3 = Mark Selby 28858
4 = Judd Trump 27625
5 = Stephen Maguire 23875
6 +1 Marco Fu 23869
7 -1 Barry Hawkins 22447
8 +5 Mark Allen 19899
9 = John Higgins 19454
10 -2 Ronnie O'Sullivan 18856
11 = Mark Davis 17911
12 -2 Ali Carter 17699
13 +1 Stuart Bingham 17606
14 -2 Shaun Murphy 17560
15 = Robert Milkins 16460
16 = Ricky Walden 15975

Top 32
In: Anthony Hamilton
Out: Cao Yupeng

Top 64
In: Gary Wilson; Jamie Cope
Out: Steve Davis; Liu Chuang

Top 128
In: Robin Hull; Lee Page
Out: Sam Craigie (a); Adrian Gunnell (a)

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

2013 European PTC 7 (Antwerp Open) - Lotto Arena, Antwerp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_ ... 93_Event_7

SFs
Mark Selby (3) 4-2 Jack Lisowski (35)
Ronnie O'Sullivan (10) 4-2 Ben Woollaston (25)

Final
Selby (3) 4-3 O'Sullivan (10)


Updated rankings

Top 16
1 = Neil Robertson 33601
2 = Ding Junhui 31165
3 = Mark Selby 30870
4 = Judd Trump 27192
5 +1 Marco Fu 24558
6 -1 Stephen Maguire 24227
7 = Barry Hawkins 22281
8 = Mark Allen 20393
9 +1 Ronnie O'Sullivan 20286
10 -1 John Higgins 18827
11 +2 Stuart Bingham 18320
12 = Ali Carter 18037
13 -2 Mark Davis 17827
14 = Shaun Murphy 17674
15 = Robert Milkins 16511
16 +2 Joe Perry 16399

In: Joe Perry
Out: Ricky Walden

Top 32
In: Jack Lisowski
Out: Mark King

Top 64
In: Thepchaiya Un-Nooh; Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon
Out: Kyren Wilson; Jamie Cope

Top 128
In: Zak Surety (a)
Out: Zhu Yinghui (a)

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

2013 UK Championship - Barbican Centre, York
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_UK_Championship

Neil Robertson won his ninth ranking title, beating Mark Selby in the final. Robertson was 5-1 and 6-3 down, but recovered to win 10-7, compiling 3 century breaks in the process.

In the semi-final, Mark Selby made the 100th official maximum.

Amateur Mitchell Travis was the surprise package of the event, beating one of the season's form players, Marco Fu, in the first round. He then beat Kurt Maflin to reach the last 32.

L16
Mark Selby (3) 9-2 Graeme Dott (18)
Barry Hawkins (7) 6-5 Shaun Murphy (14)
Ricky Walden (17) 6-4 Ding Junhui (2)
Mark Allen (8) 6-4 Judd Trump (4)
Neil Robertson (1) 6-1 Joe Perry (16)
Stephen Maguire (6) 6-3 John Higgins (10)
Stuart Bingham (11) 6-1 David Morris (83)
Ronnie O'Sullivan (9) 6-0 Robert Milkins (15)

QFs
Selby (3) 6-5 Hawkins (7)
Walden (17) 6-2 Allen (8)
Robertson (1) 6-2 Maguire (6)
Bingham (11) 6-4 O'Sullivan (9)

SFs
Selby (3) 9-5 Walden (17)
Robertson (1) 9-8 Bingham (11)

Final
Robertson (1) 10-7 Selby (3)

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

Following the 2013 UK Championship

Top 16
1 = Neil Robertson 36828
2 +1 Mark Selby 34082
3 -1 Ding Junhui 31999
4 = Judd Trump 27665
5 +1 Stephen Maguire 25320
6 -1 Marco Fu 24293
7 = Barry Hawkins 23749
8 +1 Ronnie O'Sullivan 21810
9 -1 Mark Allen 21729
10 +1 Stuart Bingham 20772
11 -1 John Higgins 19019
12 +2 Shaun Murphy 18569
13 -1 Ali Carter 18378
14 +3 Ricky Walden 18303
15 -2 Mark Davis 17605
16 -1 Robert Milkins 16851

In: Ricky Walden
Out: Joe Perry

Top 32
In: Mark King
Out: Jack Lisowski

Top 64
In: Scott Donaldson; Liu Chuang; Kyren Wilson
Out: Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon; Stephen Lee; Thepchaiya Un-Nooh

Top 128
In: Mitchell Travis (a)
Out: Zak Surety (a)

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

2014 German Masters - Tempodrom, Berlin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_German_Masters

Ding Junhui won his 4th ranking event of the season and became only the seventh player to reach ten ranking titles in total.
In the final, he beat Judd Trump, who had only dropped 4 frames in the five matches he won at the venue. Trump led 4-2, but Ding took the next 6 and eventually won 9-5. The Ace in the Pack only had 1 50+ break in the final.

Rod Lawler remarkably made the semi-finals, though the best players he faced en route were Mark Davis and Tian Pengfei. Tian had beaten number 1, Neil Robertson, in the last 32.

O'Sullivan lost to Thepchaiya Un-Nooh in qualifying.

QFs
Ryan Day (26) 5-2 Xiao Guodong (22)
Ding Junhui (3) 5-2 Joe Perry (17)
Rod Lawler (36) 5-4 Mark Davis (15)
Judd Trump (4) 5-0 Michael Holt (24)

SFs
Ding (3) 6-5 Day (26)
Trump (4) 6-1 Lawler (36)

Final
Ding (3) 9-5 Trump (4)

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

Following the 2014 German Masters

Top 16
1 = Neil Robertson 33632
2 +1 Ding Junhui 33307
3 -1 Mark Selby 30698
4 = Judd Trump 27061
5 = Stephen Maguire 23197
6 = Marco Fu 22099
7 = Barry Hawkins 21909
8 +1 Mark Allen 20231
9 -1 Ronnie O'Sullivan 19931
10 = Stuart Bingham 18951
11 +1 Shaun Murphy 17686
12 -1 John Higgins 17332
13 = Ali Carter 17022
14 +1 Mark Davis 16261
15 -1 Ricky Walden 16146
16 +1 Joe Perry 16145

In: Joe Perry
Out: Robert Milkins

Top 32
In: Rod Lawler
Out: Martin Gould

Top 64
In: Thepchaiya Un-Nooh; Paul Davison
Out: Dave Harold; Liu Chuang

Top 128
In: Ratchayothin Yotharuk; Alex Borg
Out: Lu Ning (a); Lee Page

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

2014 European PTC 8 (Gdynia Open) - Gdynia Sports Arena
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_ ... 93_Event_8

SFs
Shaun Murphy (11) 4-1 Matthew Selt (78)
Fergal O'Brien (47) 4-1 Sam Baird (50)

Final
Murphy (11) 4-1 O'Brien (47)


In the updated rankings, Ding Junhui goes to number 1 for the first time.

Top 16
1 +1 Ding Junhui 33906
2 -1 Neil Robertson 33422
3 = Mark Selby 30460
4 = Judd Trump 27589
5 = Stephen Maguire 23543
6 +1 Barry Hawkins 21886
7 -1 Marco Fu 21589
8 = Mark Allen 20417
9 = Ronnie O'Sullivan 19666
10 +1 Shaun Murphy 19240
11 -1 Stuart Bingham 18987
12 = John Higgins 18014
13 = Ali Carter 16581
14 = Mark Davis 16380
15 = Ricky Walden 16263
16 = Joe Perry 16135

Top 32 - no change

Top 64
In: Matthew Selt
Out: Scott Donaldson

Top 128
In: Lee Page
Out: Michael Wild (a)

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby csprince

chengdufan wrote:2014 European PTC 8 (Gdynia Open) - Gdynia Sports Arena
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_ ... 93_Event_8

SFs
Shaun Murphy (11) 4-1 Matthew Selt (78)
Fergal O'Brien (47) 4-1 Sam Baird (50)

Final
Murphy (11) 4-1 O'Brien (47)


In the updated rankings, Ding Junhui goes to number 1 for the first time.

Top 16
1 +1 Ding Junhui 33906
2 -1 Neil Robertson 33422
3 = Mark Selby 30460
4 = Judd Trump 27589
5 = Stephen Maguire 23543
6 +1 Barry Hawkins 21886
7 -1 Marco Fu 21589
8 = Mark Allen 20417
9 = Ronnie O'Sullivan 19666
10 +1 Shaun Murphy 19240
11 -1 Stuart Bingham 18987
12 = John Higgins 18014
13 = Ali Carter 16581
14 = Mark Davis 16380
15 = Ricky Walden 16263
16 = Joe Perry 16135

Top 32 - no change

Top 64
In: Matthew Selt
Out: Scott Donaldson

Top 128
In: Lee Page
Out: Michael Wild (a)


and the new world no1 no need to carry on with the rankings mr dufan seems like a good place to leave it.

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

2014 Welsh Open - Newport Centre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Welsh_Open_(snooker)

Ronnie O'Sullivan broke Ding Junhui's winning streak in the final of the Welsh Open. In a match he dominated (he was 7-1 up), he compiled a 147 in the final frame to claim a 9-3 victory.

Joel Walker, who had just turned 20, beat Stephen Maguire on his way to the quarter-finals. He's been on a run of good results of late and looked like quite a promising player at this point in his career.

QFs
Ding Junhui (1) 5-4 Joel Walker (81)
Joe Perry (16) 5-1 Mark Selby (3)
Barry Hawkins (6) 5-0 Marco Fu (7)
Ronnie O'Sullivan (9) 5-1 John Higgins (12)

SFs
Ding (1) 6-4 Perry (16)
O'Sullivan (9) 6-2 Hawkins (6)

Final
O'Sullivan (9) 9-3 Ding (1)

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

Following the 2014 Welsh Open

Top 16
1 = Ding Junhui 34415
2 = Neil Robertson 33578
3 = Mark Selby 29825
4 = Judd Trump 27427
5 +1 Barry Hawkins 22502
6 -1 Stephen Maguire 22301
7 +2 Ronnie O'Sullivan 21812
8 -1 Marco Fu 21520
9 -1 Mark Allen 19883
10 = Shaun Murphy 18656
11 +1 John Higgins 18618
12 -1 Stuart Bingham 18550
13 +3 Joe Perry 16917
14 -1 Ali Carter 16614
15 -1 Mark Davis 15941
16 -1 Ricky Walden 15868

Top 32
In: Jack Lisowski
Out: Michael White

Top 64
In: Scott Donaldson; Joel Walker
Out: Yu Delu; Paul Davison

Top 128
In: Cao Xinlong
Out: Stephen Hendry

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

2014 Asian PTC 4 (Dongguan Open) - Dongguan Dongcheng Sports Garden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Tou ... 93_Event_4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongguan

SFs
Liang Wenbo (19) 4-2 Yu Delu (65)
Stuart Bingham (12) 4-2 Cai Jianzhong (235)

Final
Bingham (12) 4-1 Liang (19)


Updated rankings

Top 16
1 = Ding Junhui 34685
2 = Neil Robertson 33833
3 = Mark Selby 29728
4 = Judd Trump 27601
5 = Barry Hawkins 22719
6 = Stephen Maguire 22467
7 = Ronnie O'Sullivan 21961
8 = Marco Fu 21624
9 +3 Stuart Bingham 20290
10 = Shaun Murphy 18575
11 -2 Mark Allen 18556
12 -1 John Higgins 18284
13 = Joe Perry 16942
14 = Ali Carter 16651
15 +4 Liang Wenbo 16183
16 -1 Mark Davis 15899

In: Liang Wenbo
Out: Ricky Walden

Top 32 - no change

Top 64
In: Yu Delu
Out: Kyren Wilson

Top 128
In: Cai Jianzhong (a)
Out: Lyu Chenwei (a)

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

2014 World Open - Hainan International Exhibition Centre, Haikou
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_World_Open_(snooker)

Shaun Murphy won his fifth ranking title, comprehensively defeating Mark Selby in the final, 10-6. Murphy took a 4-0 lead, which proved decisive, and compiled 8 50+ breaks including 2 centuries.
Murphy had an interesting run to the final, facing veterans Tony Drago, Jimmy White and Mark King in the early rounds, then winning in a decider against number one player, Ding Junhui, in the last 16. In his quarter-final with Graeme Dott, he fluked the final black in the deciding frame.

Of the lower ranked players, two Thais had good runs to help move up the rankings.
Saengkham reached the last 32, and Thepchaiya beat Stephen Maguire on his way to the last 16. Theppy missed the last pink when going for a maximum in the last 16 versus Dott.

QFs
Mark Allen (11) 5-3 John Higgins (12)
Shaun Murphy (10) 5-4 Graeme Dott (18)
Mark Selby (3) 5-1 Alan McManus (27)
Marco Fu (8) 5-3 Mark Joyce (46)

SFs
Murphy (10) 6-4 Allen (11)
Selby (3) 6-4 Fu (8)

Final
Murphy (10) 10-6 Selby (3)

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

Following the 2014 World Open

Top 16
1 = Ding Junhui 35373
2 = Neil Robertson 34639
3 = Mark Selby 32356
4 = Judd Trump 28241
5 = Barry Hawkins 23074
6 +2 Marco Fu 22996
7 -1 Stephen Maguire 22609
8 -1 Ronnie O'Sullivan 22551
9 +1 Shaun Murphy 21641
10 -1 Stuart Bingham 20473
11 = Mark Allen 20219
12 = John Higgins 19516
13 = Joe Perry 16976
14 = Ali Carter 16787
15 = Liang Wenbo 16742
16 +2 Graeme Dott 16395

In: Graeme Dott
Out: Mark Davis

Top 32
In: Michael White
Out: Rod Lawler

Top 64 - no change

Top 128
In: Lyu Chenwei (a)
Out: Adam Wicheard (a)

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

2014 PTC Grand Final - Guild Hall, Preston
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Play ... rand_Final

Barry Hawkins won his second ranking title. Gerard Greene remarkably reached the final, following his appearance in a PTC Final earlier in the season. Again, he didn't get much of a look in, with The Hawk producing breaks of 117, 75 and 50 in the first three frames and winning 4-0.
Greene had beaten Walden, Allen and Fu on his way to the final.

QFs
Gerard Greene (78) 4-2 Mark Allen (11)
Marco Fu (6) 4-1 John Higgins (12)
Barry Hawkins (5) 4-1 Yu Delu (53)
Judd Trump (4) 4-2 Joe Perry (13)

SFs
Greene (78) 4-2 Fu (6)
Hawkins (5) 4-1 Trump (4)

Final
Hawkins (5) 4-0 Greene (78)

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

Following the 2014 PTC Grand FInal

Top 16
1 = Ding Junhui 33793
2 = Neil Robertson 33492
3 = Mark Selby 31700
4 = Judd Trump 28017
5 = Barry Hawkins 24107
6 = Marco Fu 23652
7 +1 Ronnie O'Sullivan 22796
8 -1 Stephen Maguire 22061
9 = Shaun Murphy 21509
10 +1 Mark Allen 20513
11 -1 Stuart Bingham 20342
12 = John Higgins 19037
13 = Joe Perry 17060
14 +1 Liang Wenbo 16578
15 -1 Ali Carter 16265
16 = Graeme Dott 15982

Top 32 - no change

Top 64
In: Gerard Greene
Out: Joel Walker

Top 128
In: Sanderson Lam (a)
Out: Lyu Chenwei (a)

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

2014 China Open - Beijing University Students' Gymnasium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_China_Open_(snooker)

The game's top two players faced off in the final in Beijing. Ding Junhui beat Neil Robertson to achieve the remarkable feat of winning 5 ranking events in one season.
The win was a comfortable one for Ding. He led 6-1 before sharing the remaining frames and coming out a 10-5 victor.

Mike Dunn managed to reach the semi-finals. Aside from the quarter-final, in which he beat Selby, he did have a favourable draw. Up to the quarters he only faced Ford, Lines, Tian and Steadman.

QFs
Neil Robertson (2) 5-3 Graeme Dott (16)
Ali Carter (15) 5-3 Ricky Walden (18)
Ding Junhui (1) 5-2 Mark King (31)
Mike Dunn (89) 5-3 Mark Selby (3)

SFs
Robertson (2) 6-2 Carter (15)
Ding (1) 6-0 Dunn (89)

Final
Ding (1) 10-5 Robertson (2)

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

Following the 2014 China Open, here are the rankings heading into the World Championship.

Top 16
1 = Ding Junhui 36606
2 = Neil Robertson 35074
3 = Mark Selby 32104
4 = Judd Trump 28199
5 +1 Marco Fu 23948
6 -1 Barry Hawkins 23920
7 = Ronnie O'Sullivan 23055
8 +1 Shaun Murphy 21827
9 -1 Stephen Maguire 20883
10 = Mark Allen 20340
11 = Stuart Bingham 19956
12 = John Higgins 19527
13 +2 Ali Carter 17419
14 -1 Joe Perry 16954
15 +1 Graeme Dott 16871
16 +2 Ricky Walden 16727

In: Ricky Walden
Out: Liang Wenbo

Top 32 and 64 - no change

Top 128
In: Adam Wicheard (a)
Out: Cao Xinlong (a)

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

2014 World Championship Qualifying

The following players are seeded through to the Crucible this year:
1 Ding Junhui
2 Neil Robertson
3 Mark Selby
4 Judd Trump
5 Marco Fu
6 Barry Hawkins
7 Ronnie O'Sullivan
8 Shaun Murphy
9 Stephen Maguire
10 Mark Allen
11 Stuart Bingham
12 John Higgins
13 Ali Carter
14 Joe Perry
16 Ricky Walden
18 Mark Davis

Here are the results from the final qualifying round. Quite a few shocks this year:

Graeme Dott (15) 7-10 Kyren Wilson (67)
Liang Wenbo (17) 7-10 Martin Gould (43)
Mark Williams (19) 8-10 Alan McManus (24)
Robert Milkins (20) 9-10 Michael Wasley (75)
Ryan Day (21) 10-5 Stuart Carrington (88)
Xiao Guodong (22) 10-1 Li Yan (95)
Ben Woollaston (26) 8-10 Jamie Burnett (60)
Mark King (27) 7-10 Jamie Cope (85)
Matthew Stevens (28) 8-10 Tom Ford (48)
Michael Holt (29) 10-6 Jamie Jones (47)
David Gilbert (30) 10-6 Jimmy Robertson (57)
Michael White (32) 10-7 Matthew Selt (55)
Fergal O'Brien (35) 9-10 Robbie Williams (62)
Dominic Dale (39) 10-6 Andrew Higginson (54)
Peter Ebdon (49) 8-10 Robin Hull (121)
Ken Doherty (52) 10-5 Dechawat Poomjaeng (38)

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

2014 World Championship - Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Worl ... ampionship

Mark Selby won his 4th ranking event and first world title, beating Ronnie O'Sullivan in the final. O'Sullivan led 8-3 early on, but Selby pulled things back and after taking his first lead at 11-10 didn't look back, eventually winning 18-14.

Of the season's form players, Neil Robertson fared best, completing his haul of 100 century breaks in a season on his way to the semi-final.
The number one player going into the event was Ding Junhui, but he disappointingly lost to qualifier Michael Wasley in the first round.

Two qualifiers made the quarter-finals, veterans Alan McManus and Dominic Dale.

First round
Ronnie O'Sullivan (7) 10-4 Robin Hull (121)
Joe Perry (14) 10-7 Jamie Burnett (60)
Shaun Murphy (8) 10-9 Jamie Cope (85)
Marco Fu (5) 10-7 Martin Gould (43)
Barry Hawkins (6) 10-4 David Gilbert (30)
Ricky Walden (16) 10-7 Kyren Wilson (67)
Mark Davis (18) 5-10 Dominic Dale (39)
Ding Junhui (1) 9-10 Michael Wasley (75)
Mark Selby (3) 10-9 Michael White (32)
Ali Carter (13) 10-8 Xiao Guodong (22)
John Higgins (12) 7-10 Alan McManus (24)
Stuart Bingham (11) 5-10 Ken Doherty (52)
Judd Trump (4) 10-8 Tom Ford (48)
Stephen Maguire (9) 9-10 Ryan Day (21)
Mark Allen (10) 10-4 Michael Holt (29)
Neil Robertson (2) 10-2 Robbie Williams (62)

Second round
O'Sullivan (7) 13-11 Perry (14)
Fu (5) 8-13 Murphy (8)
Hawkins (6) 13-11 Walden (16)
Dale (39) 13-4 Wasley (75)
Selby (3) 13-9 Carter (13)
Doherty (52) 8-13 McManus (24)
Trump (4) 13-7 Day (21)
Robertson (2)13-7 Allen (10)

Quarter finals
O'Sullivan (7) 13-3 Murphy (8)
Hawkins (6) 13-12 Dale (39)
Selby (3) 13-5 McManus (24)
Robertson (2) 13-11 Trump (4)

Semi-finals
O'Sullivan (7) 17-7 Hawkins (6)
Robertson (2) 15-17 Selby (3)

Final
O'Sullivan (7) 14-18 Selby (3)

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

Here are the rankings of the top 128 players at the end of the 2013-14 season, along with the rankings of the professional players who are not in the top 128. The +- is the change in ranking since the start of the season.

1 +2 Mark Selby 37619
2 = Neil Robertson 37128
3 +4 Ding Junhui 34589
4 -3 Judd Trump 29665
5 +1 Ronnie O'Sullivan 28944
6 -1 Barry Hawkins 26914
7 +6 Marco Fu 23575
8 +1 Shaun Murphy 23177
9 +1 Mark Allen 20026
10 -6 Stephen Maguire 19991
11 = Stuart Bingham 19561
12 = John Higgins 19280
13 -5 Ali Carter 18424
14 = Ricky Walden 17828
15 +7 Joe Perry 17404
16 = Graeme Dott 16133
17 +11 Liang Wenbo 15734
18 -3 Mark Davis 15252
19 = Mark Williams 14957
20 +14 Alan McManus 14860
21 +16 Ryan Day 14068
22 -5 Robert Milkins 13825
23 +20 Xiao Guodong 12775
24 +6 Dominic Dale 11850
25 +7 Kurt Maflin 11841
26 +7 Mark King 11689
27 +15 Anthony Hamilton 11652
28 +16 David Gilbert 11637
29 -11 Matthew Stevens 11590
30 -1 Michael Holt 11545
31 -10 Ben Woollaston 11455
32 -7 Michael White 11162
33 -6 Jack Lisowski 10253
34 -11 Martin Gould 10155
35 +12 Anthony McGill 9986
36 -5 Tom Ford 9969
37 +4 Dechawat Poomjaeng 9789
38 -3 Mark Joyce 9609
39 = Rod Lawler 9565
40 +24 Fergal O'Brien 9550
41 -17 Ken Doherty 9501
42 +7 Yu Delu 9398
43 +2 Jamie Jones 9263
44 -6 Cao Yupeng 9092
45 +20 Sam Baird 8881
46 +37 Michael Wasley 8799
47 +3 Alfie Burden 8782
48 +49 Gary Wilson 8644
49 +4 Tian Pengfei 8547
50 +13 Aditya Mehta 8400
51 -25 Andrew Higginson 8323
52 +7 Jimmy Robertson 8221
53 +18 Pankaj Advani 8200
54 +37 Kyren Wilson 8193
55 -9 Jamie Burnett 8187
56 = Matthew Selt 8161
57 +11 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 8085
58 -1 Ian Burns 7984
59 +26 Robbie Williams 7969
60 -8 Luca Brecel 7837
61 +8 Peter Lines 7729
62 -22 Peter Ebdon 7588
63 +33 Scott Donaldson 7384
64 +39 Joel Walker 7144
65 -17 Rory McLeod 7131
66 +9 Craig Steadman 6963
67 +12 Gerard Greene 6833
68 -32 Marcus Campbell 6796
69 -14 Jamie Cope 6765
70 +10 Zhang Anda 6717
71 +16 Mike Dunn 6480
72 -14 Nigel Bond 6297
73 +3 Joe Swail 6259
74 -23 Dave Harold 6183
75 +19 David Morris 6136
76 -16 Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon 6101
77 -10 Paul Davison 6084
78 -17 Liam Highfield 6010
79 -17 Liu Chuang 5805
80 -26 Steve Davis 5707
81 -15 Jimmy White 5534
82 +31 Li Hang 5485
83 -13 James Wattana 5475
84 +25 Stuart Carrington 5376
85 -1 Barry Pinches 5318
86 +4 Martin O'Donnell 5139
87 -15 Tony Drago 5083
88 -10 David Grace 4658
89 -16 Li Yan 4415
90 -9 Chen Zhe 4237
91 +2 Daniel Wells 4206
92 +14 Jamie O'Neill 4104
93 -16 Adam Duffy 3995
94 +20 John Astley 3748
95 +21 Lyu Haotian 3606
96 +92 Noppon Saengkham 3597
97 NEW Chris Wakelin 3559
98 -6 Andrew Pagett 3454
99 +8 Sean O'Sullivan 3309
100 -12 Andrew Norman 3296
101 +47 Robin Hull 3191
102 +131 Alex Davies 3118
103 +15 Michael Leslie 3065
104 -6 Fraser Patrick 2735
105 NEW Vinnie Calabrese 2711
106 +2 Allan Taylor 2690
107 -21 Simon Bedford 2552
108 +38 Elliott Slessor 2457
109 +27 James Cahill 2407
110 +2 Chris Norbury 2367
111 NEW Alex Borg 2351
112 -92 Stephen Lee 2328
113 -2 Zhao Xintong (a) 2014
114 NEW Hammad Miah 2010
115 NEW Ratchayothin Yotharuk 1961
116 +72 Ju Reti (a) 1949
117 +111 Ross Muir 1854
118 +67 Mitchell Travis (a) 1705
119 +36 Cao Xinlong 1640
120 -5 Duane Jones (a) 1610
121 +63 Lee Page 1576
122 NEW Alexander Ursenbacher 1423
123 -41 Andy Hicks (a) 1416
124 -4 Jak Jones 1377
125 +6 Zhou Yuelong (a) 1372
126 +81 Sanderson Lam (a) 1287
127 NEW Ryan Clark 1265
128 -39 Passakorn Suwannawat 1257
135 -6 Igor Figueiredo 890
136 +117 Patrick Einsle 877
159 +22 Mohamed Khairy 464
164 -47 Jin Long 404
166 NEW Ahmed Saif 393
178 -48 Ben Judge 242
190 NEW Khaled Belaid Abumdas 188
213 -54 Shi Hanqing 94
232 +2 Lee Spick 71
Hossein Vafaei 0

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

To the end of the 13-14 season, 264 ranking events have been played. Here is the roll of honour:

Stephen Hendry 36
Steve Davis 28
Ronnie O'Sullivan 26 (2014 Welsh Open)
John Higgins 25
Mark Williams 18
Ding Junhui 11 (2013 Shanghai Masters | 2013 Indian Open | 2013 International Championship | 2014 German Masters | 2014 China Open)
Jimmy White 10
John Parrott 9
Peter Ebdon 9
Neil Robertson 9 (2013 Wuxi Classic | 2013 Uk Championship)
Ken Doherty 6
Ray Reardon 5
Stephen Lee 5
Stephen Maguire 5
Shaun Murphy 5 (2014 World Open)
Mark Selby 4 (2014 World Championship)
James Wattana 3
Paul Hunter 3
Judd Trump 3
Ali Carter 3
Cliff Thorburn 2
Tony Knowles 2
Dennis Taylor 2
Doug Mountjoy 2
Alan McManus 2
Graeme Dott 2
Dominic Dale 2
Ricky Walden 2
Mark Allen 2
Marco Fu 2 (2013 Australian Open)
Barry Hawkins 2 (PTC Grand Final)

John Spencer, Terry Griffiths, Alex Higgins, Willie Thorne, Silvino Francisco, Joe Johnson, Neal Foulds, Tony Meo, Mike Hallett, Steve James, Bob Chaperon, Tony Jones, Dave Harold, Nigel Bond, Fergal O'Brien, Chris Small, David Gray, Matthew Stevens, Stuart Bingham: 1 each

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

An update for anyone interested.

A few days ago I decided to add player date of births into my spreadsheet. I've added 776 d.o.b's. 266 of the players in my sheet have unknown dates of birth (for now). The majority of the unknowns are 1970s players or obscure players who have only played in one or two events.

I'm now in the process of adding an extra column following each ranking revision, giving me the age of the players at the time of the ranking revision. There are nearly 300 columns to add, so this will take a bit of time. It will be interesting to help us see how the average ages have changed over time, but it means it will probably be a week or two before I start the 2014-15 season.

I'm thinking I'll share the average age of the top 16, 32 and 64 players at the end of each season. And from the 14-15 season, for each ranking event I'll share the average age of the field.

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby badtemperedcyril

chengdufan wrote:An update for anyone interested.

A few days ago I decided to add player date of births into my spreadsheet. I've added 776 d.o.b's. 266 of the players in my sheet have unknown dates of birth (for now). The majority of the unknowns are 1970s players or obscure players who have only played in one or two events.

I'm now in the process of adding an extra column following each ranking revision, giving me the age of the players at the time of the ranking revision. There are nearly 300 columns to add, so this will take a bit of time. It will be interesting to help us see how the average ages have changed over time, but it means it will probably be a week or two before I start the 2014-15 season.

I'm thinking I'll share the average age of the top 16, 32 and 64 players at the end of each season. And from the 14-15 season, for each ranking event I'll share the average age of the field.


I’d be pleased to help on any of the missing ones. I have quite an extensive library to refer to.

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

badtemperedcyril wrote:I’d be pleased to help on any of the missing ones. I have quite an extensive library to refer to.


I'd be amazed if you could find any. But if you are willing to have a dig through your library, it would be greatly appreciated.

I've put the details on this other thread: viewtopic.php?f=25&t=10269&p=876187#p876183