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 for pointing out problems.

This month

Ladder

Halls of Shame & Fame

Game data

This year

Ladder

Zester and Apple Core Ladder

Halls of Shame & Fame

Previous ladders

January 2005

February 2005

March 2005

January—December 2004

Previous game data

January 2005

February 2005

March 2005

January—December 2004

Barbu Heroes

Largest number of ladder wins

Lew Stansby (3)

All time highest scorer

Kit Woolsey (+653)

Highest score on a single deal

Kit Woolsey: +275 at Dominoes, subsequently equalled by Jon Rice

Winners, 2005

January: Armando Pontecorvo

February: Steve Altus

March: Mike Rice

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, April 2005

This competition finished at midnight (UK time) on 30th April 2005. Congratulations to Neil Trentham.

Pos		Name	Rating	Current playing strength	Games	Wins	Avg. score	Highest score	Lowest score	Positive scores
1		Neil Trentham	1069.0	26.5	69	32%	39	380	-324	61%
2		Jon Rice	1051.5	4.4	30	33%	51	347	-427	63%
3		Tong Choo	1040.2	-17.8	10	20%	72	198	-78	80%
4		Francesco Mazzadi	1035.2	43.7	12	33%	54	244	-88	58%
5		Chris Dixon	1023.9	25.9	17	47%	29	227	-489	71%
6		Prahalad Rajkumar	1020.2	-24.1	12	8%	36	205	-117	50%
7		Mike Rice	1016.2	26.1	7	29%	30	297	-258	57%
8		Kit Woolsey	1015.5	24.2	5	40%	51	291	-199	60%
9		Willie Whitaker	1012.6	37.2	10	20%	11	256	-227	40%
-		Louis Levy	1012.1	-14.1	3	67%	75	178	-77	67%
10		John Therkelsen	1007.7	-0.9	7	43%	17	236	-251	43%
11		Laura de Laurentiis	1007.3	13.9	58	21%	6	382	-292	53%
12		Laura Tidone	1007.1	23.1	32	19%	8	253	-454	56%
13		Giles Woodruff	1004.2	0.9	7	14%	10	136	-149	71%
14		Andy Bowles	1004.2	9.7	10	50%	9	273	-441	60%
15		Martin Garvey	1002.8	16.6	60	27%	5	360	-327	52%
-		Kevin Shiue	1002.2	-84.1	3	67%	33	144	-172	67%
-		Jennifer Lin	1001.5	-90.8	2	50%	48	112	-16	50%
-		Armando Pontecorvo	1000.3	27.6	1	0%	3	3	3	100%
-		Steve Altus	999.9	19.8	1	0%	43	43	43	100%
-		Greg Ingolia	999.0	-13.6	1	0%	-30	-30	-30	0%
-		Julian Foster	998.2	64.1	1	0%	-136	-136	-136	0%
-		Andrew Garnett	997.7	-86.9	1	0%	-163	-163	-163	0%
-		Ben Chosid	997.7	-36.0	1	0%	-161	-161	-161	0%
-		McKenzie Myers	997.3	-105.7	1	0%	-135	-135	-135	0%
16		Tony Nunn	996.7	-4.8	25	12%	4	336	-223	56%
17		Leonardo Cima	995.8	37.3	4	25%	-21	222	-195	25%
-		JoAnna Stansby	995.5	25.0	1	0%	-364	-364	-364	0%
18		Sally Woolsey	994.6	-5.4	16	25%	-9	245	-383	56%
19		Nicholas Cheung	992.3	-59.7	4	0%	-32	185	-188	25%
20		Annabella Palma	989.0	-44.2	23	22%	-8	244	-194	39%
21		Luca Cesati Cassin	984.5	-19.6	45	24%	-20	316	-398	38%
22		David Adler	982.5	-23.6	8	38%	-34	108	-229	38%
23		Massoun M ejjeh	980.5	-33.1	47	28%	-14	366	-342	43%
24		Carlo Fogaroli	979.8	-25.6	6	17%	-62	180	-321	33%
25		Guy Campbell	976.6	-40.5	22	27%	-24	243	-434	50%
26		Fabrizio Farnesi	975.4	5.2	32	28%	-14	348	-342	50%
27		David Beer	969.7	-7.6	28	11%	-27	262	-486	46%
28		Raghavendra Rajkumar	966.6	-20.7	17	18%	-39	251	-311	41%
29		Elisabetta Palma	963.0	-55.0	13	31%	-49	180	-320	38%
30		Michael Wilkinson	959.6	-67.1	16	13%	-61	355	-301	31%
31		Fabio Lo Presti	955.4	17.1	28	21%	-38	287	-329	39%

Hall of Fame, April 2005

Highest scores achieved over the same period:

	Name	Result
	Laura de Laurentiis	382
	Neil Trentham	380
	Massoun M ejjeh	366
	Martin Garvey	360
	Michael Wilkinson	355

Hall of Shame, April 2005

Lowest scores over the same period:

	Name	Result
	Chris Dixon	-489
	David Beer	-486
	David Beer	-468
	Laura Tidone	-454
	Andy Bowles	-441