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ANBA
Rankings Explained
The ANBA Rankings are calculated, and issued at the
end of each season, and reflect a players performances in ANBA organised
events over the course of 1 full year. This means that points from the 4
most recent consecutive seasons are used.
Generally, the later a player is eliminated from a
tournament, the more points he will be awarded. The following is the
current basic framework for the calculation of points in any knockout
tournament:
Tournament winner: 100 points
Runner-up: 75 points
Beaten semi-finalists: 55 points
Beaten quarter-finalists: 40
points
Losers in Last 16: 25 points
Losers in Last 32: 15 points
Losers in Last 64: 10 points
In addition, these
points are scaled by a “tariff”, depending on the importance and
prestige of the tournament involved. The current ANBA tournaments, and
their tariffs are as follows:
ANBA Open: 5
Aberdeen singles: 4
Quarterly League Cup: 3
Any Sunday “Opens”: 2
Monday night “league” events: 1
So a players points are calculated by multiplying
the points allocation by the tariff; any racks won by a player in his
final losing match of a knockout competition are added to this to give
his full points allocation.
Examples:
(i) A player losing 4-2 in the quarter finals of a
Monday night league event will get 40*1+2=
42 points
(ii) A player losing 10-7 in the semi-final of the
ANBA Open would get 55*5+7= 282 points
(iii) The winner of the Aberdeen Singles would
receive 100*4= 400 points
Notes:
(a)
Only a players best 8 points performances in Monday night leagues
count for both league placings , and ranking points purposes.
(b)
Players in a knockout event
receive only 5 points if they are eliminated without winning a match, at
whatever stage. Multiplied by tariff, and
supplemented by frames won.
(c)
This list is not exhaustive, as further slight tweaking of the
system would be needed should there be for example, a “double
elimination” style event, or a group style event where players qualify
for the last 32 etc. These systems have been used in the last 3 ANBA
Opens under various points allocation systems.
Effective April 2005
Jim O’Hare
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