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, February 2005

This competition finished at midnight (UK time) on 28th February 2005. Congratulations to Steve Altus, who must have been getting a bit nervous towards the end.

Pos	Name	Rating	Current playing strength	Games	Wins	Avg. score	Highest score	Lowest score	Positive scores
-	Joel Wooldridge	1305.5	98.7	1	100%	340	340	340	100%
-	Jay Korobow	1283.1	81.9	1	100%	223	223	223	100%
-	John Barth	1247.9	50.5	1	100%	193	193	193	100%
-	Lew Stansby	1194.7	90.9	1	0%	113	113	113	100%
-	Julian Foster	1149.4	60.1	2	50%	129	191	66	100%
1	Steve Altus	1133.3	90.3	22	36%	74	247	-132	77%
2	Andy Bowles	1127.2	74.2	15	33%	78	324	-139	60%
3	Laura Tidone	1103.4	85.3	38	32%	60	294	-88	66%
-	Tong Choo	1103.1	15.3	1	0%	57	57	57	100%
4	T.C. Altus	1090.4	106.4	28	21%	40	274	-386	54%
5	Martin Garvey	1089.7	61.1	43	42%	52	456	-271	63%
6	Mike Rice	1089.3	83.8	26	42%	57	347	-282	65%
7	Laura de Laurentiis	1080.3	78.9	35	43%	42	368	-554	60%
-	Francesco Mazzadi	1077.7	88.1	5	20%	25	151	-168	60%
8	Neil Trentham	1075.9	72.3	53	26%	31	340	-304	55%
-	Giles Woodruff	1071.4	56.8	8	25%	49	368	-151	63%
9	Jon Rice	1068.7	76.4	57	26%	36	412	-262	53%
10	Kit Woolsey	1064.3	63.6	26	23%	22	407	-287	62%
11	John Therkelsen	1061.0	55.0	65	20%	26	347	-365	60%
12	Willie Whitaker	1053.7	48.4	12	25%	-2	229	-337	58%
13	Fabrizio Farnesi	1047.5	43.4	35	31%	-1	329	-495	43%
14	Luca Cesati Cassin	1045.8	28.6	21	19%	-15	121	-185	48%
15	Fabio Lo Presti	1045.1	71.5	14	21%	-7	236	-185	43%
-	Chris Dixon	1039.1	68.7	9	33%	-14	181	-430	67%
-	Carlo Fogaroli	1037.4	2.4	8	25%	-26	196	-221	38%
-	Eric Mayefsky	1031.6	6.7	1	0%	-56	-56	-56	0%
16	David Adler	1023.4	18.3	33	24%	-27	192	-429	45%
-	Armando Pontecorvo	1023.2	89.6	6	17%	-18	210	-184	33%
17	Sally Woolsey	1023.1	31.7	45	18%	-30	250	-349	42%
18	David Beer	1017.8	15.6	28	29%	-27	312	-396	39%
-	Raghavendra Rajkumar	1014.8	36.9	6	17%	-34	80	-260	33%
-	Massoun M ejjeh	1011.6	7.6	5	0%	-37	31	-100	40%
19	Prahalad Rajkumar	1009.1	22.7	20	20%	-32	299	-314	35%
20	Elisabetta Palma	1005.5	-12.8	20	20%	-49	268	-297	35%
21	Annabella Palma	1004.9	-0.4	24	21%	-45	216	-375	29%
-	Graham Hazel	992.8	60.0	4	25%	-56	115	-171	25%
-	Aldo Ghilardi	990.3	94.2	1	0%	-61	-61	-61	0%
-	Justin Lall	980.2	-40.5	2	0%	-60	58	-178	50%
-	Andrea Frediani	976.5	23.2	3	0%	-68	-6	-175	0%
22	Andrew Garnett	975.0	11.6	76	16%	-79	312	-685	41%
23	Guy Campbell	968.3	-3.2	12	17%	-84	236	-388	25%
-	Leonardo Cima	963.3	79.0	4	0%	-89	106	-282	25%
24	Nicholas Cheung	921.4	-35.9	11	18%	-118	216	-353	36%
-	Michael Wilkinson	913.1	-46.3	2	0%	-117	-107	-127	0%
-	James Krot	899.3	-58.0	3	0%	-107	11	-320	33%
-	Jennifer Lin	865.9	-21.7	3	0%	-201	-103	-258	0%
-	McKenzie Myers	862.6	-60.1	5	20%	-188	176	-416	20%
-	Chris Willenken	838.7	65.4	1	0%	-210	-210	-210	0%
-	Paula Leslie	832.7	-24.3	2	0%	-177	-93	-261	0%

Hall of Fame, February 2005

Highest scores achieved over the same period:

	Name	Result
	Martin Garvey	456
	Martin Garvey	452
	Jon Rice	412
	Kit Woolsey	407
	Martin Garvey	395

Hall of Shame, February 2005

Lowest scores over the same period:

	Name	Result
	Andrew Garnett	-685
	Laura de Laurentiis	-554
	Fabrizio Farnesi	-495
	Andrew Garnett	-464
	Chris Dixon	-430