RINIWA Player of Year Race League Table - at 31 December 2005 (post BelfastKO2005 Oct-Dec)

The table below shows the position of the 39 players who have earned points since the last 1st Jan in the RINIWA Player of the Year Race. 26 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 05). 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 30 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 30 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 23.10.2005 after Brian Boru Tropy'05.

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

  1   {1}  Taylor, David          [1]    NI      7,000     11          0     0
  2   {2}  Aynsley, Richard       [4]   ROI      5,560     11                 
  3   {3}  Birt, Darren           [7]   ROI      4,325     11                 
  4   {4}  McKenna, Seamus        [8]    NI      4,030     11          0     0
  5   {5}  Houston, David         [3]    NI      3,627     11          0     0

  6  {10}  Brittain, Stephen      [9]    NI      3,225      6     +1,350    +3
  7   {6}  MacKay, Ian                  SCOT     3,075      5                 
  8   {7}  Moran, Alex            [2]   ROI      2,565      9                 
  9   {8}  Brennan, Rob           [5]   ROI      2,145     10                 
 10   {9}  Bull, Brian            [13]   NI      1,945      9          0     0

 10  {12}  Gibson, Mark           [13]   NI      1,945     11       +245     0
 12  {11}  Coghlan, Donal         [11]  ROI      1,795      9                 
 13  {12}  McCammon, Rick                NI      1,700      4                 
 14  {14}  Munro, John                  SCOT     1,625      5                 
 15  {15}  Mark, Hare                   ENG      1,540      4                 

 16  {16}  McTurk, Alec           [16]  ROI      1,350      5                 
 17  {17}  Snoddy, Tim            [17]   NI      1,305     11                 
 18  {18}  Martin, Naylor               ENG      1,260      4                 
 19  {19}  Alan, Cutner                 ENG      1,180      4                 
 20  {20}  Hart, Andy             [12]  ROI      1,125     11                 

 21  {21}  Hope, Hunter                 SCOT     1,075      5                 
 22  {22}  Copeland, Jim                SCOT       950      5                 
 23  {23}  van Embden, Jan        [19]  ROI        945     10                 
 24  {24}  Greg, Mann                   ENG        940      4                 
 25  {25}  Murphy, Richard        [15]   NI        900      3          0     0

 26  {26}  Walsh, Tony            [6]   ROI        860      4                 
 27  {27}  Pincemin, Carl               FRA        625      5                 
 28  {28}  Marmier, Arnaud               OS        525      5                 
 29  {29}  Coughlan, William      [26]  ROI        520      4                 
 30  {30}  Brown, David           [27]   NI        435      6                 

 31  {31}  Merne, Cian            [17]  ROI        420      4                 
 32  {32}  Lavery, John           [28]   NI        360      2                 
 33  {33}  Cameron, Hugh                SCOT       200      5                 
 34  {34}  Bankhead, Stephen      [20]   NI        165      2          0     0
 35  {35}  McTiernan, Felim             ROI        150      3                 

 36  {36}  Murray, Alan                  NI        125      2          0     0
 37  {37}  Barrett, Edmond        [25]  ROI        115     11                 
 38  {38}  Nolan, Eric            [23]  ROI         85      9                 
 39  {39}  Thomson, Eric                SCOT        25      5