RINIWA Player of Year Race League Table - at 31 December 2006 (post KO 2006 Nov-Dec)

The table below shows the position of the 34 players who have earned points since the last 1st Jan in the RINIWA Player of the Year Race. 21 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 Celtic Championship '06). 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 35 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 35 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 12.11.2006 after TTN Open 06.

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

  1   {1}  Taylor, David          [1]    NI      4,275     11                 
  2   {2}  Mark, Hare                   ENG      4,025      5                 
  3   {3}  Brennan, Rob           [4]   ROI      3,435     11          0     0
  4   {4}  Aynsley, Richard       [3]   ROI      3,100     11          0     0
  5   {5}  Greg, Mann                   ENG      2,900      5                 

  6  {14}  van Embden, Jan        [12]  ROI      2,460     11       +750     0
  7   {6}  Hession, Michael       [13]  ROI      2,450     11        +70     0
  8   {7}  Houston, David         [2]    NI      2,220     11                 
  9   {8}  Ruddock, Dave                ENG      2,180      4                 
 10   {9}  Watts, Tim                   ENG      2,000      5                 

 11  {13}  Coghlan, Donal         [10]  ROI      1,972     11       +107    +1
 12  {10}  Hart, Andy             [9]   ROI      1,935     11                 
 13  {11}  Gibson, Mark           [11]   NI      1,895     11                 
 14  {12}  Collins, Richard             ENG      1,875      5                 
 15  {15}  Fairhurst, David             ENG      1,700      5                 

 16  {16}  Coughlan, William      [23]  ROI      1,425     10          0     0
 17  {17}  Hamilton, James              ENG      1,275      5                 
 18  {18}  Young, Richard               WAL      1,250      5                 
 19  {19}  Birt, Darren           [6]   ROI      1,140     11                 
 20  {20}  McCammon, Rick                NI      1,050      5                 

 21  {21}  McKenna, Seamus        [7]    NI      1,035      3                 
 22  {22}  Brittain, Stephen      [7]    NI        905     10                 
 23  {23}  Michael, Gerwyn              WAL        845      6                 
 24  {24}  Brown, David           [26]   NI        825      3          0     0
 25  {25}  Dick, George           [18]  SCOT       820      4                 

 26  {26}  Snoddy, Tim            [22]   NI        765      6          0     0
 27  {27}  Noonan, Glen                 AUS        540      4                 
 28  {32}  Walsh, Tony            [5]   ROI        275      6       +135    +2
 29  {28}  Sherlock, Phil         [20]  ROI        230      5                 
 30  {29}  Cameron, Hugh                SCOT       225      5                 

 31  {30}  Bracken, Padraig       [18]  ROI        180      4          0     0
 32  {31}  Caffery, Steve               SCOT       150      5                 
 33  {33}  Bull, Brian            [14]   NI        135      3                 
 34  {34}  McTurk, Alec           [14]  ROI         20      4