This page contains the list of players who have scored points in the Player of the Year League.

RINIWA Player of Year Race League Table - at 13 April 2008 (post Celtic Championship 08)

The table below shows the position of the 18 players who have earned points since the last 1st Jan in the RINIWA Player of the Year Race. 18 players who played DBM in an included tournament in this period have not earned points yet this year and are thus not shown.

The Player of the Year Race is substantially different to the overall career ratings presented elsewhere on this website. The career ratings are the best estimate of a player's average DBM ability in competition play. They take a longer view and consider all of a player's results, both good and bad. The Player of the Year Race is designed to indicate who was the top player at their peak (measured over up to 3 or 4 tournaments) with no penalty for poorer performances.

The Player of the Year Race is based only on results in the year to 1st Jan (starting from Munster Open 07). It gives greater reward to good performances and ignores bad performances. A limited number of performances are included (equal to 11 rated games) so that almost all players will have a chance of being on a comparable basis.

Points in the Player of the Year Race are earned by an above average performance in any tournament. This is measured by having a Ratings Equivalent Performance (REP) greater than 2,000 in a particular tournament. The REP is now shown on the right hand side with other tournament result details in the full alphabetic, state specific and Top Players tables.

The points earned for each rated game are:
= 0 if REP < 2,000 or played only 1 rated game in tournament
= (REP - 2,000) / 2 if played 2 rated games in tournament
= (REP - 2,000) if played 3 or more rated games in tournament

So for example, if Player A plays 4 games in a tournament and does well (29/40), his REP might be 2,200 for the tournament, his best ever. He thus earns 200 points per game (ie 2,200 - 2,000) or 800 points for the whole tournament and fills 4 of his 11 games.

Only a maximum of 11 games count for each player. Where a player has above average performances that involve more rated games than this, the best 11 games are used.

Please note that each player's position in the previous league table is shown in braces after their current league table position. If a player's career rating has earned them a ranking in the overall Top Players List this is shown in brackets after their name.

The two right hand columns show the change in race points and number of included games since the last publication as at 10.3.2008 after Finn Mac Cool 08.

     Prev.                                       Race    Games     Change in:
Posn posn  Name                       Country   points   incl.    Points Games

  1   {1}  Hession, Michael       [7]   ROI      3,270     11       +645    +1
  2   {2}  Houston, David         [2]    NI      3,120      8     +1,520    +4
  3   {9}  Aynsley, Richard       [3]   ROI      1,590      9     +1,350    +5
  4        Alan, Cutner                 GBR      1,450      5     +1,450    +5
  5        Taylor, David          [1]    NI      1,250      5     +1,250    +5

  6   {3}  Bull, Brian            [11]   NI      1,170      9        +50    +5
  7   {4}  Brennan, Rob           [5]   ROI        965      6          0     0
  8   {8}  Coghlan, Donal         [8]   ROI        935     11       +650    +5
  9   {6}  van Embden, Jan        [9]   ROI        890      9       +250    +5
 10   {5}  Gibson, Mark           [13]   NI        780      4                 

 11        Austin, Ian                  SCOT       775      5       +775    +5
 12   {7}  McTurk, Alec           [14]  ROI        750      9       +450    +5
 13        Cameron, Hugh                SCOT       625      5       +625    +5
 14        Brown, David           [22]   NI        620      4       +620    +4
 15        Simpson, Russell             SCOT       325      5       +325    +5

 16        Dick, George           [15]  SCOT       275      5       +275    +5
 16        Hogg, Malcolm                SCOT       275      5       +275    +5
 18  {10}  McKenna, Seamus        [10]   NI         60      4          0     0