Online Barbu Ladder

Submitting results

Ladder results should be sent to online.barbu.results@virgin.net. Emails to this address are processed automatically by a piece of software, so please don’t send any other correspondence to this address.

The results should be provided in the same form as the play records produced by the program (“File” then “Save Hand records”), but with full names, abbreviations or aliases in place of the "handles" used during the game. For an explanation of the rules for abbreviations, and a list of aliases, please click here:

Player naming and current alias list

More information

How the rating system works

Credits

Many people have been contributed to the creation of the ranking system. However, special thanks are due to:

· Gerben Dirksen, for having the idea, devising the original formula, writing the first program to calculate ratings, administering it for most of the first year, and providing useful advice and mathematical assistance ever since.

· Graham Hazel, without whose software none of it would have been possible.

Steve Altus, Lew Stansby, Neil Trentham and Giles Woodruff, for providing advice and comments, and pointing out problems.

Barbu Heroes

Largest number of ladder wins:

Lew Stansby (3)

All time highest scorer:

Kit Woolsey (+653)

Winners, 2005

January: Armando Pontecorvo

Winners, 2003-4

2004 ladder:

Joel Wooldridge

2004 “Zester”:

Neil Trentham

2004 “Apple core”:

Joel Wooldridge

2003 ladder:

JoAnna Stansby

Monthly/bimonthly/quarterly ladders:

Neil Allerton (twice), Steve Altus, Giovanni Bobbio, Graham Hazel, Francesco Mazzadi, JoAnna Stansby, Lew Stansby (three times), Laura Tidone, Willie Whitaker, Philip Wood

Ladder, January 2005

This competition finished at midnight (UK time) on 31st January 2005. Congratulations to Armando Pontecorvo.

Pos	Name	Rating	Current playing strength	Games	Wins	Avg. score	Highest score	Lowest score	Positive scores
-	Sally Sue	1261.0	-13.0	1	0%	189	189	189	100%
-	Jennifer Lin	1248.0	-8.1	1	100%	184	184	184	100%
-	Leonardo Cima	1237.3	100.1	6	83%	194	352	31	100%
1	Armando Pontecorvo	1230.6	107.0	12	58%	177	330	-22	92%
-	Lew Stansby	1202.5	87.1	2	50%	142	200	83	100%
-	Aldo Ghilardi	1138.2	98.1	2	0%	86	236	-64	50%
2	T.C. Altus	1128.6	126.1	52	37%	87	485	-238	67%
3	Francesco Mazzadi	1112.2	90.6	14	29%	68	238	-124	71%
-	Craig Ganzer	1108.1	-29.2	1	0%	41	41	41	100%
4	Chris Dixon	1092.8	78.2	24	17%	40	314	-281	67%
5	Fabio Lo Presti	1089.9	91.7	56	36%	45	365	-218	73%
-	Andy Bowles	1080.0	36.0	3	33%	29	117	-118	67%
6	Eria Franco	1078.5	58.9	12	42%	33	318	-325	67%
7	Neil Trentham	1075.4	60.9	78	38%	32	321	-348	65%
8	Giles Woodruff	1074.7	54.0	17	29%	29	189	-196	76%
9	Mike Rice	1074.4	69.0	34	38%	47	313	-203	62%
-	Joel Wooldridge	1072.6	90.7	8	38%	38	259	-179	63%
10	Laura de Laurentiis	1069.2	70.1	71	34%	25	301	-383	63%
11	Laura Tidone	1062.6	60.9	82	20%	20	374	-332	54%
12	Sally Woolsey	1060.5	61.1	43	30%	17	390	-387	58%
13	Steve Altus	1049.2	44.5	57	19%	5	368	-254	51%
14	John Therkelsen	1045.9	70.8	66	24%	-1	298	-585	58%
15	Jon Rice	1044.8	51.0	66	30%	10	280	-384	56%
-	Willie Whitaker	1040.2	45.5	7	43%	-26	141	-469	71%
16	Kit Woolsey	1034.0	70.6	17	29%	-10	253	-199	41%
-	Eric Mayefsky	1032.9	6.0	2	50%	-28	144	-199	50%
17	Martin Garvey	1032.8	40.6	30	27%	-21	342	-427	43%
18	Raghavendra Rajkumar	1031.9	42.1	16	13%	-1	256	-187	50%
19	David Beer	1028.6	27.6	23	26%	-5	514	-283	52%
20	David Adler	1026.7	20.7	23	9%	-23	248	-238	39%
21	Luca Cesati Cassin	1021.6	13.5	36	14%	-31	231	-455	44%
22	Fabrizio Farnesi	1020.4	39.3	19	32%	-19	235	-236	37%
-	Charlie Garrod	1019.8	50.6	1	0%	-38	-38	-38	0%
23	Guy Campbell	1006.6	11.1	23	17%	-41	229	-411	48%
-	Graham Hazel	1004.2	70.8	3	0%	-64	31	-122	33%
24	Carlo Fogaroli	1003.4	-6.7	25	16%	-51	201	-399	36%
25	Prahalad Rajkumar	1002.6	36.8	11	18%	-45	245	-430	36%
-	McKenzie Myers	1000.0	-38.8	4	25%	-49	52	-257	50%
26	Nicholas Cheung	1000.0	-13.9	20	15%	-44	264	-388	50%
-	Jay Korobow	997.8	68.6	1	0%	-68	-68	-68	0%
27	Annabella Palma	992.9	-13.4	62	11%	-55	272	-377	39%
28	Elisabetta Baridon Palma	978.8	-16.2	33	15%	-73	267	-368	30%
-	Andrew Quinton	969.5	-2.9	6	17%	-69	330	-209	17%
-	Camilla Colli	968.4	-72.8	3	0%	-84	-33	-121	0%
29	Andrew Garnett	939.4	-32.3	72	10%	-113	330	-760	33%
-	Michele Cammarta	878.8	-41.5	3	0%	-179	-2	-393	0%
-	Claudio Marini	847.8	-11.0	2	0%	-195	44	-434	50%
-	Tong Choo	707.4	12.2	1	0%	-288	-288	-288	0%
-	Neil Allerton	672.5	51.3	1	0%	-398	-398	-398	0%

Hall of Fame, January 2005

Highest scores achieved over the same period:

	Name	Result
	David Beer	514
	T.C. Altus	485
	Sally Woolsey	390
	T.C. Altus	376
	Laura Tidone	374

Hall of Shame, January 2005

Lowest scores over the same period:

	Name	Result
	Andrew Garnett	-760
	John Therkelsen	-585
	Andrew Garnett	-534
	Willie Whitaker	-469
	Andrew Garnett	-463