Tantrix Tournament Elő Ratings

The 31 December 2005 online and table tournament Elő ratings for nearly 600 players can be found below the following notes. The ratings are based on a total of 18829 online tournament games (4728 played between 1999-2002, 4633 played in 2003, 6241 played in 2004 and 3503 games played so far in 2005) and 1450 table tournament games, 852 of them played so far this year.

Please remember that whether a player's rating rises or falls depends partly 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. This does not necessarily mean how far they got in the tournament each year, though there is obviously a strong correlation with that. Because results from the same tournament a year before are deweighted by 50% in the calculation of the weighted average Elő (and results from the same tournament two years earlier are deweighted by another 50%, i.e. reduced to 25% of their original weighting, and so on), the ratings of some players who did not play in the latest tournaments but did play in them a year or two ago have also changed.

Under a classical Elő 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 Elő ratings into seeding points.

For example, if you played your first tournament game against the world no. 1 and beat him by a big margin, your rating for that game might be 2500. That is the level appropriate to someone who beats the world no. 1 by a big margin in every game, and you have beaten the world no. 1 by a big margin in every (one!) game so far, but that is clearly not sustainable over 35 more games ... or if it is, you are probably going to be the next World Champion! :-)

So, some players below have "established" ratings and some are "provisional". The best way to compare established and provisional players is to look at the seeding lists. These start off with the Elő ratings then points are deducted to allow for the greater confidence interval around provisional ratings.

Please note that Elő 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 31 Dec 2005 (online and table)
(the rating list can be found below these links)
Click here for the current Online Tournament Seeding list (less detailed, so easier to understand than this page)
Click here for the current Table Tournament Seeding list (less detailed, so easier to understand than this page)
Click here to see all Tournament Master (TGM & ITM) norms and titles awarded so far
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																								SINGLE TOURNAMENT FIGURES FOR THE CURRENT YEAR
Most players will find the seeding lists (see links above) easier to follow - they are in seeding point order too, so also show positions.
The rating list below is in alphabetical order by Tantrix nickname (table-only players listed at the end) to make it easy to find yourself. It shows																								Single tournament ratings (and numbers of games) are shown below
detailed rating data for online and table tournaments (split as at the end of 2004), including *new* the actual number of TGs played in the current
year and in total as well as the adjusted number G, which deweights games over time by 0.5^n where n is the number of complete years elapsed.																								Online tournaments are highlighted like this
																								Table tournaments are highlighted like this
There is a key to what each column heading means at the bottom of the page
																								2005 TGM norms (rating+g>=2050, G>=20, >= 5 opponents) are shown in red
Ratings marked E are ESTABLISHED ratings based on at least 3 tournaments (2 if table), at least 36 tourn. games (20 if table) and at least one																								2005 ITM norms (rating+g>=2000, G>=7, >= 4 opponents) are shown in blue
tourn. game since the start of the last completed calendar year. Other ratings (marked P) are provisional and will be reduced before being used																								ITM norms uncounted (already had max. 1 outside World/Contl/Nat Online champs) are shown in brown
for seeding purposes to take into account greater uncertainty. Players with established online ratings are shown in bold type in the table below.																								2005 TTM norms (rating+g>=2000, G>=7, >= 4 opponents) are shown in green
PLAYER DETAILS				ONLINE TOURNAMENT GAMES									TABLE TOURNAMENT GAMES
							NO OF GAMES				Other Change					NO OF GAMES				Elő Change		Current		INDIVIDUAL TOURNAMENTS THIS YEAR (blue=online, green=table, bold lines denote where new starting values used)
Player Name	Trn	Country		E/	T	C	Yr	All	Dwt	* Elő *	Since	In	E/	T	C	Yr	All	Dwt	* Elő *	Since	In	Lobby		05HM		05Swe		05WTC		05SO		05HO		05Hu		05FO		05BO		05NZO		05 Contl		05NZ/Aus		05GO		05WJTC
	Mstr			P					=G	Rating	31 Jul	2005	P					=G	Rating	31 Aug	2005	Nickname		G	Elo	G	Elo	G	Elo	G	Elo	G	Elo	G	Elo	G	Elo	G	Elo	G	Elo	G	Elo	G	Elo	G	Elo	G	Elo
				Totals>		5681		21007					Totals>		943		1541		Time Decay Factors ->					1.00		1.00		1.00		1.00		1.00		1.00		1.00		1.00		1.00		1.00		1.00		1.00		1.00
Marek Reniers		POL		E	6	y		128	49.5	1879	=	=	E	2	Y	31	31	31.0	1887	=	new	1kornik21										14	1901													17	1876
László Klein		HUN		P	2	Y	56	56	56.0	1720	+052	new										6lapos						34	1753					22	1668
Ervin Bőhl		HUN		E	4	Y	66	89	77.5	1587	-030	-023										Aapa						17	1476					22	1707							27	1548
Attila Bőhl		HUN		E	7	Y	53	165	109.0	1852	-021	-034										Aata		11	1764			15	1779													27	1858
Luis Morfin		MEX		P	3	N		56	10.6	1673	+005	=										Abyss
Mathieu Le Gall		FRA		P	2	N		23	5.8	1760	+037	=										acidnitrix
Andrew Swan		AUS		P	3	N		36	2.3	1906	+024	=										Admiral
Rita Tóth		HUN											P	1	Y	14	14	14.0	1365	=	new	Aiyaruk										14	1365
Hans A [w]		NED		P	1	N		6	0.2	1695	=	=										Ajax
Aladar Sampon		SVK		P	1	y		17	8.5	1672	=	=										aladar
Markku Saarikoski		FIN		E	6	Y	8	101	39.5	1810	-019	-019										albicolon						8	1735
Alex Kowalczyk		AUS		P	8	N		61	2.2	1742	+005	=										AlexK2000
Tibor Kapu		HUN		P	1	Y	17	17	17.0	1683	new	new										Alfie						17	1683
Alison Hatton		RSA		P	1	Y	18	18	18.0	1587	=	new										alicat																				18	1587
Alice B [u]		ISR		E	3	Y	39	56	47.5	1587	-013	-085										aliska																				27	1570					12	1566
Alistair Gorrie		GBR		P	4	y		83	32.8	1849	=	=	P	1	N		14	3.5	1687	=	=	Allegory
Alun Harford		GBR		P	2	y		23	8.0	1713	=	=										Alun
Martin Pályi Kiss		HUN		E	4	Y	97	97	97.0	1751	+002	new	P	1	Y	14	14	14.0	1716	=	new	Anakonda						24	1756			14	1716	16	1766							33	1803					24	1664
Angelique Pizzignacco		SWE		E	3	Y	76	91	83.5	1893	-017	+173										Angelique						40	1875													36	1950
Ant Davenport		GBR		P	2	Y	42	42	42.0	1601	+010	new										antdav						12	1627													30	1591
Matthias Merz		GER											E	2	Y	28	28	28.0	1601	=	new	ante																13	1515							15	1676
April White		NZL	Z*	P	2	N		24	4.3	1481	+024	=										aprilmoon
Thomas Bächle		GER		E	5	Y	38	127	79.3	1804	+015	+014	P	1	y		16	8.0	1752	=	=	Aquarius						38	1820
David Lawrence		GBR		P	3	Y	9	36	22.5	1644	=	-013	P	2	Y	12	19	15.5	1456	=	-135	Argel																12	1416			9	1625
Walter Haselmann		ARG		P	6	Y	21	77	35.8	1530	+041	+036										Argentino						21	1555
Kathy Upton		AUS		P	10	y		189	32.9	1815	=	=										Ariel
Mel Kervin		AUS		P	1	N		15	3.8	1546	=	=										Astrid
Wendy Sykes		AUS		P	2	N		15	0.2	1521	=	=										Aussie
Anton Smirnov		RUS		P	1	y		12	6.0	1685	=	=										Axl
Attila Bacskai		HUN		P	2	Y	12	39	25.5	1693	-002	-006										bacskai																				12	1686
Fabrice Banctel		FRA		P	1	Y	30	30	30.0	1592	=	new										banctel																				30	1592
Barbara Böcsödi		HUN		P	2	N		22	2.8	1569	=	=										Barby
Bartosz Witkowski		POL		P	1	Y	39	39	39.0	1836	=	new										Bartek																				39	1836
Catherine Moxham		NZL	Z*	E	10	Y	49	234	113.0	1945	+002	+015										Bastet						12	1811															37	2014
Csaba Bőhl		HUN		P	1	y		17	8.5	1664	=	=										bcsiga
Britta Steude		NZL		E	13	Y	36	189	63.5	1835	-002	-032	E	2	Y	19	30	24.5	1843	=	-004	Bdot						6	1672											19	1842			30	1838
Ingrid Vergauwen		BEL		P	1	y		30	15.0	1799	=	=										BEE2
Denis Begun		CAN		P	1	Y	21	21	21.0	1727	=	new										begundan																				21	1727
Leah Sanders		AUS		P	7	y		126	22.3	1847	=	=										Bell
Ben Thomas		GBR		P	1	N		8	2.0	1362	=	=										ben1000
Péter Regős		HUN		E	4	Y	22	79	47.3	1688	+008	+034										bendi												22	1727
Cornelis Bruinhorst		NED		P	1	Y	17	17	17.0	1575	new	new										Bengel						17	1575
Matthew Bennett		AUS		P	1	y		18	9.0	1524	=	=										Bennay
Ben Polman	ITM	NED		E	14	Y	63	332	130.0	1898	-001	-021	E	5	Y	46	75	57.0	1875	-043	-036	benopi						42	1895	13	1728							16	1966			21	1836			17	1898
Bert Leus-Bamps		BEL		P	1	N		14	1.8	1729	=	=										berkje
Michał Kryszak		POL		P	1	y		33	16.5	1834	=	=										berwi
Beth Burdett		NZL	Z*	P	1	Y	24	24	24.0	1543	=	new	P	2	Y	7	13	10.0	1592	=	+085	Beth																		7	1628			24	1543
Kevin Baird		GBR		E	11	Y	29	182	74.5	1771	-039	-065										Bhoys						8	1483													21	1739
Gábor Balázs		HUN		E	5	Y	55	93	66.8	1661	=	+097										bidzsi												22	1747							33	1639
Alan Ford		GBR		P	2	Y	12	31	21.5	1580	+001	+003										Big4D																				12	1582
Susi Rieger		GER		E	4	Y	52	108	80.0	1833	+008	+005	E	2	Y	29	29	29.0	1934	=	new	bikey						19	1881			14	2028					15	1847			33	1809
Brian Colp		USA		P	2	N		32	1.4	1750	=	=										Birdman
Fred Biro		FRA		P	1	Y	36	36	36.0	1666	=	new										Biro																				36	1666
Attila Mikulán		HUN		E	16	Y	91	339	184.0	1866	+010	+023	E	3	Y	46	46	46.0	1897	=	new	blick		11	2031			12	1787			14	1817	41	1845			15	2112			27	1946			17	1774
Frank Heyer		FRA		P	9	N		164	22.8	1911	+001	=										blob
Dylan Casey		AUS		P	1	Y	12	12	12.0	1510	new	new										bloodnut						12	1510
Viktor Engárd		HUN		E	5	Y	55	101	71.8	1763	+001	-005										blr36												22	1713							33	1794
James Preen		GBR		E	10	Y	65	221	115.5	1872	-000	+004										bluedog						31	1872													34	1879
Gilles Brazzalotto		GDL		E	4	Y	33	78	42.4	1829	+005	+092										bodhran																				33	1855
Gabriel Cheang		SIN		E	4	Y	44	61	52.5	1598	-017	-065										BoLiAoGC						8	1556													18	1574					18	1610
Amy H [u]		GBR		P	1	Y	37	37	37.0	1759	=	new										Borissa																										37	1759
Eszter Rajki		HUN		P	2	Y	73	73	73.0	1781	=	new										boszi4												40	1781							33	1782
Nicolas Didrit		FRA		E	3	Y	65	92	78.5	1708	+092	+119										Boub						38	1797													27	1642
Kyle B [u]		AUS		P	1	N		10	1.3	1764	=	=										Bowdy
Matthew Boxer		NZL	Z*	P	3	N		17	1.3	1537	=	=										Boxer
Brad Swanlund		USA		E	13	Y	45	237	94.2	1912	-008	+012										brad						6	1727													39	1955
Christopher Davis		AUS		P	1	Y	22	22	22.0	1610	new	new										Brainless						22	1610
Róbert Papp		HUN		P	1	N		8	1.0	1600	=	=										Breki
Brett Laishley		AUS		E	11	Y	56	257	123.4	1850	-014	+023										brett						19	1785															37	1925
Andreas Kemerle		GER		P	5	y		70	19.0	1834	=	=										Bricks
Stephan Brissaud		CAN		P	1	y		12	6.0	1244	=	=										brissaud
Bruno Fillon		FRA		E	6	Y	12	114	44.7	1727	+007	+007										Brunojoue						12	1747
Brett Randall		AUS		P	5	Y	12	64	20.0	1653	-124	-139										buck						12	1560
Bethany Rogers		GBR											P	1	N		8	1.0	1177	=	=	bug
Pierre Faure		GDL		P	2	N		20	4.4	1700	-000	=										Burgot
Carl Fredrik Tjeransen		NOR		P	2	Y	63	63	63.0	1656	+111	new										Caffe						33	1756													30	1545
John Antony		NZL	Z*	P	1	N		6	0.1	1624	=	=										Caotik
Annie Brunet		FRA		P	1	y		27	13.5	1654	=	=										caribelle
Patrice Leclef		FRA		P	1	y		21	10.5	1575	=	=										caribou
Carina Göransson		SWE		P	1	N		23	5.8	1713	=	=										carina
Adam McConnaughey		USA		P	1	N		4	0.3	1669	=	=										Cayvie
Carl Nielsen		GBR		P	1	N		14	0.9	1803	=	=										cazz
Chad Miller		USA		P	1	N		18	2.3	1640	=	=										chadmiller
Charlie Seviour		GBR		P	1	N		4	1.0	1202	=	=										charliewon
Lucy Chave		NZL	Z*	P	1	N		10	0.6	1614	=	=										Chave
Benoît Vandaele		FRA		P	1	N		5	0.1	1411	=	=										ChBen
Rob Morton	ITM*	GBR		E	8	Y	39	274	124.5	1944	-001	-001	E	5	Y	30	71	47.0	2015	-008	-030	skweeki								13	1951											39	1943			17	2024
Matt W [u]		AUS		P	1	N		12	3.0	1517	=	=										cheesy12
Kristina Chilton		NZL	Z*	P	2	N		28	1.8	1713	+001	=										chilly
Seb Mrowinski		NZL	Z*	E	11	Y	54	217	109.6	1827	+007	+001	E	2	Y	16	27	21.5	1784	=	+154	chimaster						12	1967											16	1837			24	1797			18	1779
Paul Slater		GBR		P	1	Y	36	36	36.0	1699	=	new										chimp																				36	1699
Michael Drewett		AUS		E	3	Y	65	75	66.3	1794	-001	+118										Chisel						38	1789															27	1806
Rob Hayden		GBR		P	1	N		4	0.3	1510	=	=										Choddo
Ido Shor		ISR		P	1	Y	12	12	12.0	1645	new	new										choob						12	1645
Krisztian Török		HUN		P	4	y		72	31.8	1671	=	=										chr42
Christina Baxter		AUS		P	1	N		12	3.0	1462	=	=										chrisby
Claire Hynde		GBR											P	1	Y	16	16	16.0	1713	=	new	Chrissie																16	1713
Christie Schultz		USA		P	1	N		3	0.1	1755	=	=										Christie
József Kristóf		HUN		E	7	Y	34	141	84.0	1697	+000	+066										Christoph												22	1854							12	1684
Chris Peek		NZL	Z*	P	3	N		35	1.0	1914	=	=										Chriz
Cindy Tarsi		USA		P	2	N		26	0.7	1649	=	=										Cindy
Chandan Kudige		USA		P	1	N		4	0.1	1576	=	=										ckudige
Jon Tullett		RSA		P	1	N		10	0.2	1824	=	=										clove
Lucy Bower		GBR		P	2	Y	27	27	27.0	1351	=	new										coffeekeys																				15	1258					12	1468
Colin Bridges		GBR		P	2	N		12	1.8	1542	=	=										colinb
Ben Trumbore		USA		P	5	N		73	2.4	1911	-000	=										Crispy
Chris Dellaway		NZL		P	3	N		49	4.7	1701	=	=										crusty
Eszter Fehér		HUN		P	3	y		63	31.5	1815	=	=										csEszti
Peter Gyocsi		HUN		P	2	Y	52	52	52.0	1653	+030	new										csipet						22	1695													30	1623
Emese Czirók		HUN		P	1	Y	16	16	16.0	1598	=	new										Csipike												16	1598
Endre Csóka		HUN		P	1	y		12	6.0	1723	=	=										CsokaEndre
Krisztina Csabai		HUN		E	12	Y	114	238	161.5	1773	-016	-053	P	1	Y	14	14	14.0	1977	=	new	Csopi		11	1723			36	1760			14	1977	34	1760							33	1742
Peter Erdeos		HUN		P	1	Y	17	17	17.0	1609	new	new										Cukorka						17	1609
Kevin Scott		GBR		E	12	Y	59	288	109.3	1882	-009	-007	P	4	Y	8	44	19.5	1838	=	-122	cuthbert						20	1864									8	1650			39	1882
Jésus M [w]		USA		P	1	N		2	0.0	1304	=	=										cyberjesus
Dénes Papp		HUN		P	2	y		32	12.5	1633	=	=										cyberpop
Greg Bennett		NZL	Z*	P	3	y		42	15.4	1810	=	=										Cynosure
Czér Gergely		HUN		P	1	y		18	9.0	1653	=	=										czergeri
Doug Scott		USA		P	1	N		18	0.6	1685	=	=										daddio
Damon Horrell		NZL	Z*	P	2	N		21	1.1	1777	+013	=										Damon
Daniel Martin		NZL	Z*	P	2	N		23	2.9	1740	=	=										Daniel03
Daniella Tidman		AUS		P	1	Y	22	22	22.0	1736	new	new										DanT						22	1736
Danuta Łukaszewicz		POL		P	3	y		65	26.8	1832	+015	=										Danuta
Nigel Ferrington		GBR		P	1	Y	29	29	29.0	1856	new	new										Danzino						29	1856
Austin Spafford		USA		P	2	y		31	10.8	1548	=	=										DarkFrog
Roelof Jan Kiss		NED		P	2	Y	26	26	26.0	1606	-081	new										dashX						17	1563													9	1687
Noah Bartlett		AUS		P	1	N		3	0.1	1724	=	=										DaveMayhew
Frédéric vd Plancke		BEL		P	1	N		4	0.3	1549	=	=										daycam
Dave Dyer		USA		E	19	Y	33	291	76.8	1781	-028	-031	P	1	Y	12	12	12.0	1735	=	new	ddyer						12	1645											12	1735	21	1794
Jo Gwilliam		GBR		P	1	Y	12	12	12.0	1386	new	new										deggit						12	1386
Thorsten Grams		GER		P	4	y		59	17.0	1628	-000	=										Dennis
Alex Biryukov		ISR		E	5	Y	52	144	92.0	1871	+026	+031										depont						31	1930													21	1845
Dani Berman		ISR