The December 2003 tournament Elo ratings for 383 players (around 100 of them new to tournaments this year) can be found below the following notes. The ratings are based on a total of 9351 tournament games - 4718 played between 1999-2002 and 4633 played in 2003 up to the end of the World Team Championship.
Please remember that deweighting last year's results by 50% for the tournaments played in 2003 means that whether a player's rating rises or falls partly depends on how he/she did compared to the same tournament a year ago in terms of actual results (margins) and the strength of opponents played, which does not necessarily mean how far they got in the tournament each year (though there is obviously a strong correlation with that!) and that the ratings of some players who did not play in this year's tournaments have also changed.
Established and Provisional lists:
Under a classical Elo rating system like this, you do not start with an arbitrary rating like 500 and slowly move away from it. Instead, the system calculates a best estimate of your rating based on all the available evidence, i.e. all the tournament games you have played, even if you have not played very many. This makes the system fairer on your future opponents and gives a better idea of your true strength quickly. However, 'best estimate' does not mean necessarily mean 'likely to be maintained'. Ratings based on a low number of games have a large confidence interval around them and this is taken into account when converting Elo ratings into seeding points.
For example, if you played your first tournament game against Matt Peek and beat him by a big margin, your rating for that game might be 2500. That is the level appropriate to someone who beats Matt Peek by a big margin in every game, and you have beaten him by a big margin in every (one!) game so far, but that is clearly not sustainable over 35 more games - compare some of the extreme WTTC ratings for established players with their overall ratings for more proof of this.
So, there are three rating lists below - "established", "provisional" and "very provisional" - these terms are explained at the top of each list. The criteria for appearing in the "established" list are continuing to gradually become more stringent as the average number of tournaments games played per player increases, as flagged on this page previously.
For full details of the criteria for being "established" and the new T' column, and to best compare those on the official and unofficial rating lists, please look at the Tournament Seeding List. This starts off with the Elo ratings then deducts points to allow for the greater confidence interval around non-established ratings.
Reading the lists:
To find yourself in the lists quickly (if using Internet Explorer), do Ctrl-F, type your lobby nickname and then click Find Next, then page up to the green text above the part of the list you are in to see how reliable your rating is. Please note that Elo ratings depend on who you play and how heavily you win or lose against them rather than directly on your final position in each tournament, so sometimes the order of ratings for a tournament differs slightly from the final positions, eg. someone who wins their qualification group by a long way and beats a few top players but does not win the tournament might get a higher rating than someone who wins the tournament after just scraping through qualification or having an easy draw. For more info on the ratings or to check that they have not been 'fixed', please see the links at the end of this page or email me.
TANTRIX TOURNAMENT ELO RATINGS as at the end
of 2003
(the rating lists can be found below these
links)
2003 SINGLE TOURNAMENT FIGURES
Click
here for the current Tournament Seeding list
Single tournament ratings (and numbers of
games) are shown below
Tournament
Master (TGM & ITM) norms awarded so far
together with the contribution to the overall
rating of performances
Introduction
to Tantrix Tournament Elo Ratings
in tournaments from previous years after
deweighting each one by
History
- the Elo Rating List at the end of 2002
1/2^n, where n is the number of complete years
since the event took
Click
here to return to the main Tournament Results Page
place - deweighting will also change these
numbers during the year
Click
here to return to the Tantrix Tournaments Home Page
2003 TGM norms (rating+g>=2050, G>=20,
>= 5 opponents) are shown in red
There is a key to what each column heading
means at the bottom of the page
2003 ITM norms (rating+g>=2000, G>=7,
>= 4 opponents) are shown in blue
ESTABLISHED RATINGS (T'>=3, G>=36,
active in 2003)
Remember that you need to have played 7 games
in total against at least four different
opponents in any given tournament to qualify
for an ITM norm - this criterion is the
This
list includes players who have played more than 36 tournament games in total
(after deweighting
reason why only one ITM norm was awarded for
the 2002 WTTC. The extreme Elo
games
from prior years) and at least 6 games (before deweighting) in each of 3 or
more tournaments.
values from this tournament for many players
are a result of the low number of games.
These ratings should be very reliable as a
measure of performance in tournaments, though of course
In fact most individual game wins or losses
produce quite extreme high or low ratings
players could still show large improvements in
future if their standard of play in tournaments rises.
and this is why averaging over a lot of games
is so important.
NB. players with equal whole number ratings
are separated using ratings to 1 DP
PLAYER DETAILS
Elo Change
Current
INDIVIDUAL TOURNAMENTS THIS YEAR (bold lines denote where new starting values were used)
Pos
T30
Name
Trn
Country
Est/
T
T'
P
G
* Elo *
Since
This
Lobby
03SM/MM
03World
03
Chal.
03
WTTC
03BO/Hu
03Eu/PA
03NZ/Aus
03WJTC
Prev.
Yrs
Chg
Mstr
Prv
Rating
31-Jul
Year
Nickname
G
Elo
G
Elo
G
Elo
G
Elo
G
Elo
G
Elo
G
Elo
G
Elo
G
Elo
Total tourn. games played in 2003:
4633.0
Time Decay Factors ->
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1… 0.0625
1
=
Matt Peek
TGM
NZL
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E
12
11
Y
169.5
2008
-009
-026
Pekko
48
2022
5
1851
30
1979
30
1993
56.5
2035
2
=
Shaun Cooper
ITM
NZL
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E
10
9
Y
111.5
1980
+010
+007
scoop
49
1987
25
1978
37.5
1974
3
=
Péter Petrecz
ITM
HUN
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E
18
16
Y
183.0
1974
+015
+001
Pepe
8
2145
43
1986
5
2130
30
1985
30
1909
14
1905
53.0
1973
4
Up 11
Rob Morton
GBR
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E
5
5
Y
108.0
1941
+031
+090
cheekymbk
31
1985
20
1932
14
1994
26
1925
17.0
1851
5
Up 4
Mike McManaway
NZL
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E
10
9
Y
85.5
1935
+016
+017
mikem
31
1957
30
1925
24.5
1918
6
Dn 2
Catherine Moxham
NZL
Z*
E
5
4
Y
94.0
1930
-018
+031
Bastet
32
1878
30
1966
22
1972
10.0
1899
7
Dn 1
Zoltán Németh
HUN
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E
9
7
Y
143.0
1928
-012
+010
Zormac
8
1822
6
1564
5
2079
30
1977
30
1882
40
1988
24.0
1918
8
Dn 3
Jérôme Papillon
FRA
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E
14
12
Y
112.0
1926
-016
+029
papillon
22
1805
5
2067
15
1940
39
1993
31.0
1896
9
Up 2
János Püspöki
ITM
HUN
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E
14
12
Y
138.5
1916
+001
+048
pusi
8
2052
24
1860
5
2094
30
2020
14
1840
14
1870
43.5
1868
10
Up 7
László Szobonya
HUN
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E
7
6
Y
126.0
1912
+012
+152
SiRPi
8
1786
45
1933
5
2011
30
1903
14
1928
21
1918
3.0
1760
11
Up 28
Frank Heyer
FRA
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E
9
8
Y
91.0
1912
+070
+058
blob
24
2031
15
1896
14
1881
38.0
1854
12
Dn 2
Tom McCoy
GBR
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E
7
6
Y
75.0
1907
-009
-034
LittleTom
12
1865
20
1840
14
1969
29.0
1941
13
Up 11
James Preen
CAN
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E
5
4
Y
86.0
1906
+026
+155
bluedog
24
1943
5
1712
15
1948
30
1951
12.0
1751
14
Dn 2
Leah Sanders
AUS
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E
6
5
Y
59.5
1905
-008
-053
Bell
15
1882
12
1789
32.5
1958
15
Dn 7
Murray Pharaoh
NZL
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E
13
13
Y
120.0
1903
-018
+037
Scarab
22
1737
30
1990
29
1988
39.0
1866
16
Dn 3
Ben Polman
NED
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E
10
9
Y
134.0
1898
-014
+004
benopi
26
1856
5
1738
15
1821
14
2005
39
1941
35.0
1894
17
Up 2
Steven Trezise
ITM
GBR
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E
14
13
Y
94.0
1897
+003
-038
steven2
18
1907
20
1848
14
1843
42.0
1935
18
Up 25
Rick Yagodich
GBR
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E
8
6
Y
119.5
1895
+064
+167
RickY
46
1986
5
1675
20
1982
14
1900
19
1774
15.5
1728
19
Dn 1
Heli Niemi
FIN
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E
10
9
Y
107.5
1894
-004
-018
Helly
15
1807
14
1802
40
1942
38.5
1913
20
Up 1
Bevan Chong
NZL
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E
11
11
Y
100.5
1893
+006
-005
Mighty
12
1884
30
1911
19
1860
39.5
1897
21
Up 5
Brad Swanlund
USA
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E
9
8
Y
95.0
1889
+012
-038
brad
22
1899
15
1926
30
1827
28.0
1927
22
Dn 8
Wolfgang Schwarz
GER
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E
8
8
Y
79.5
1885
-027
-030
space
13
1771
30
1971
20
1806
16.5
1915
23
Dn 3
Britta Steude
NZL
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E
9
9
Y
54.0
1884
-004
-029
Bdot
6
1786
30
1886
18.0
1913
24
Dn 8
Kevin Scott
GBR
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E
10
9
Y
133.5
1881
-023
-029
cuthbert
18
1745
20
1863
14
1930
26
1900
55.5
1910
25
Dn 6
Martin Harlow
GBR
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E
8
7
Y
86.5
1880
-017
-004
RufusT
6
1701
20
1873
27
1920
33.5
1884
26
wasPr
Markku Saarikoski
FIN
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E
3