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Player age over time

Postby chengdufan

With the golden oldies qualifying from Q School again this year, there's been a lot of talk about the age of professional players.
Using the rankings revisit rankings at the end of each season (1974-2014 so far), I've calculated the average age of the top 16, top 32, top 64 and top 128 players. Due to Chinese firewall issues, I'm not able to post pictures on here, so can't show a graph (maybe someone can help?); it's therefore raw data I'm afraid. But anyway, let's have a look at how the average age of players has changed over time.

Re: Player age over time

Postby chengdufan

Top 16 1974-2014

1974 37
1975 39
1976 39
1977 37
1978 38
1979 37
1980 32
1981 33
1982 32
1983 34
1984 34
1985 31
1986 33
1987 32
1988 31
1989 32
1990 31
1991 29
1992 28
1993 29
1994 27
1995 27
1996 27
1997 28
1998 26
1999 28
2000 28
2001 28
2002 27
2003 28
2004 29
2005 29
2006 30
2007 28
2008 30
2009 31
2010 30
2011 30
2012 31
2013 32
2014 33

Re: Player age over time

Postby chengdufan

Top 32 1975-2014

1975 38
1976 39
1977 38
1978 40
1979 40
1980 36
1981 37
1982 35
1983 35
1984 34
1985 33
1986 35
1987 33
1988 32
1989 31
1990 31
1991 30
1992 30
1993 28
1994 28
1995 27
1996 26
1997 27
1998 27
1999 27
2000 28
2001 28
2002 28
2003 29
2004 31
2005 29
2006 30
2007 30
2008 30
2009 31
2010 32
2011 32
2012 33
2013 32
2014 34

Re: Player age over time

Postby chengdufan

Top 64 1982-2014

1982 38
1983 38
1984 35
1985 34
1986 34
1987 35
1988 34
1989 33
1990 31
1991 31
1992 30
1993 30
1994 29
1995 29
1996 28
1997 28
1998 27
1999 28
2000 28
2001 29
2002 29
2003 30
2004 30
2005 31
2006 31
2007 31
2008 31
2009 32
2010 34
2011 33
2012 33
2013 32
2014 32

Re: Player age over time

Postby chengdufan

Top 128 1987-2014

1987 37
1988 37
1989 36
1990 35
1991 34
1992 31
1993 29
1994 28
1995 28
1996 28
1997 28
1998 28
1999 28
2000 29
2001 30
2002 29
2003 29
2004 30
2005 30
2006 30
2007 30
2008 30
2009 30
2010 31
2011 31
2012 31
2013 31
2014 31

Re: Player age over time

Postby James Bentley

I've had a go at a graph. It's done in Excel 97 so isn't exactly state of the art.

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