RINIWA Player of Year Race League Table - at 31 December 2002 (post Belfast DBM KO Competition Nov-Dec 2002)

The table below shows the position of the 19 players who have earned points since the last 1st Jan in the RINIWA Player of the Year Race. 23 players who played DBM 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 Leprecon DBM Competition 2002). It gives greater reward to good performances and ignores bad performances. A limited number of performances are included (equal to 9 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 20 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 9 games.

Only a maximum of 9 games count for each player. Where a player has above average performances that involve more rated games than this, the best 9 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 20 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 9.11.2002 after DGG DBM Pairs 2002.

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

  1   {3}  Aynsley, Richard       [1]   ROI      4,570      9     +1,385     0
  2   {1}  Dalton, Paul           [3]   ROI      3,995      9                 
  3   {2}  Walsh, Tony            [4]   ROI      3,970      9                 
  4   {4}  Moran, Alex            [6]   ROI      2,645      9                 
  5   {5}  Taylor, David          [5]    NI      2,430      9          0     0

  6   {6}  Marmier, Arnaud        [8]    OS      2,205      7                 
  7   {7}  Nolan, Eric            [16]  ROI      1,985      7          0     0
  8   {8}  Houstan, David         [2]    NI      1,925      7                 
  9  {12}  Brennan, Rob           [8]   ROI      1,835      9       +450     0
 10   {9}  Snoddy, Tim            [14]   NI      1,660      4                 

 11  {10}  McKenna, Seamus        [13]   NI      1,655      7                 
 12  {11}  Birt, Darren           [8]   ROI      1,635      9                 
 13  {13}  Bull, Brian            [12]   NI      1,175      6                 
 14  {14}  Merne, Cian                  ROI        985      6       +125    +2
 15  {16}  Bracken, Padraig       [15]  ROI        490      9        +15    +2

 16  {15}  Trench, Terry          [11]  ROI        480      4                 
 17  {17}  McTurk, Alec           [20]  ROI        300      3          0     0
 18  {18}  Meehan, Rory                 ROI        150      3          0     0
 19  {19}  Bentot, Mathieu        [18]  ROI        135      7