This page contains the list of top rated players with a high reliability for their ratings. The size of this list is set each year by the RINIWA Committee. It is less than the number of players with reliability class C or above, so even qualifying for it is an achievement.

Top RINIWA Players - at 13 April 2008 (post Celtic Championship 08)

The table below shows the top rated players in Ireland. Only players whose rating had reliability in categories A,B or C and played in the last 13 months are included.

A number of good players would have been eligible for this list except for the minimum reliability requirement. Hopefully this shortcoming will be rectified over the next 6 months or so.

In total 29 players met the reliability criterion and were eligible for this list.

Please note that each player's position in the previous top list is shown in braces after their current position. Where a player's previous rating was high enough but too unreliable to make the list last time the previous position is shown as {UR}.

The results of 1 new tournament have been included since the previously published ratings. This was Celtic Championship 08 in Belfast which involved 29 players .

The actual scores are the total 10 point game scores (or equivalents) for each player from this tournament. The right-most column shows the level in rating equivalent terms that each player performed at in these tournament.

The previous ratings were as at 10.3.2008 after Finn Mac Cool 08.

     Prev.                               At 13. 4.2008:   Last    No of  Rating  Actual  Rating
Posn Posn  Name                  Country Rating Reliab.  Played   games  Change   Score Eq Perf

   1 {1}   Taylor, David            NI    2,310    B   13. 4.2008   132   0      40/50    2,250 
   2 {2}   Houston, David           NI    2,300    A   13. 4.2008   117   +5     34/40    2,380 
   3 {3}   Aynsley, Richard        ROI    2,205    A   13. 4.2008   143   +10    33/50    2,270 
   4 {5}   Birt, Darren            ROI    2,130    B    4.11.2007    97                         
   5 {4}   Brennan, Rob            ROI    2,125    A   13. 4.2008   151   -20    26/50    1,920 

   6 {6}   Walsh, Tony             ROI    2,115    B   10. 3.2008    91                         
   7 {7}   Hession, Michael        ROI    2,095    A   13. 4.2008   116   +10    28/50    2,165 
   8 {8}   Coghlan, Donal          ROI    2,070    A   13. 4.2008    94   +5     26/50    2,130 
   9 {9}   van Embden, Jan         ROI    2,045    A   13. 4.2008   113   0      27/50    2,050 
  10 {10}  McKenna, Seamus          NI    2,030    A   13. 4.2008   149   -10    25/50    1,900 

  11 {11}  Bull, Brian              NI    2,025    A   13. 4.2008   134   0      26/50    2,010 
  11 {11}  Hart, Andy              ROI    2,025    B    4.11.2007    55                         
  13 {13}  Gibson, Mark             NI    2,010    A   10. 3.2008    87                         
  14 {14}  McTurk, Alec            ROI    1,995    B   13. 4.2008    99   +15    28/50    2,090 
  15 {UR}  Dick, George            SCOT   1,990    C   13. 4.2008    23   +35    27/50    2,055 

  16 {14}  Coughlan, William       ROI    1,975    A   13. 4.2008   113   -5     24/50    1,930 
  17 {16}  Snoddy, Tim              NI    1,945    B    4. 8.2007   107                         
  18 {18}  Worden, Tom             ROI    1,930    C   13. 4.2008    20   0      25/40    1,940 
  19 {19}  Bracken, Padraig        ROI    1,895    B    4.11.2007   106                         
  19 {UR}  Muir, John              SCOT   1,895    C   13. 4.2008    19   +60    26/50    1,975 

  21 {20}  Lavery, John             NI    1,870    A   13. 4.2008   127   -15    14/40    1,670 
  22 {21}  Brown, David             NI    1,865    A   13. 4.2008   110   +25    24/40    2,155 
  23 {23}  Aynsley, James          ROI    1,825    C   27. 1.2008    23                         
  24 {21}  Bergin, Tony            ROI    1,815    B   13. 4.2008    28   -25    18/50    1,710 
  25 {24}  Meehan, Rory            ROI    1,765    B   29. 2.2008    49                         

  25 {UR}  Sheeran, Tom             NI    1,765    C   13. 4.2008    51   -15    12/40    1,740 
  27 {UR}  Taylor, Daniel           NI    1,670    C   13. 4.2008    21   -85    3/50     1,350 
  28 {25}  Waldron, Phil           ROI    1,620    B   10. 3.2008    51                         
  29 {26}  Ronayne, Brian          ROI    1,555    B   13. 4.2008    53   +5     6/50     1,665