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

April 2005

January—December 2004

Previous game data

January 2005

February 2005

March 2005

April 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, May 2005

This competition finished at midnight (UK time) on 31st May 2005. Congratulations to Neil Trentham.
The ranking system will now be changed to make sure that this never happens again.

Pos		Name	Rating	Current playing strength	Games	Wins	Avg. score	Highest score	Lowest score	Positive scores	Rating (old method)
1		Neil Trentham	1092.6	35.5	54	35%	65	414	-276	63%	1053.3
2		Martin Garvey	1070.7	24.7	77	32%	34	353	-314	61%	1033.5
3		Mike Rice	1068.9	31.8	27	30%	59	404	-303	63%	1059.2
4		Prahalad Rajkumar	1058.3	-8.8	24	42%	55	355	-303	71%	1053.9
5		Francesco Mazzadi	1047.9	45.4	15	40%	62	317	-258	60%	1060.4
6		Laura de Laurentiis	1046.3	18.1	33	33%	40	317	-256	58%	1035.3
7		Tong Choo	1038.6	-10.8	11	45%	58	399	-372	64%	1061.2
8		Fabio Lo Presti	1030.3	18.8	24	29%	29	308	-207	50%	1028.0
9		Chris Dixon	1028.8	25.2	38	32%	18	408	-261	58%	1020.2
10		Jon Rice	1015.5	5.8	34	26%	11	359	-333	62%	1011.6
-		Louis Levy	1007.5	-12.9	3	33%	50	242	-79	33%	1047.2
11		Leonardo Cima	1003.5	28.6	15	27%	3	171	-388	67%	1004.4
-		Aldo Ghilardi	1002.0	40.5	1	100%	195	195	195	100%	1163.9
-		Giles Woodruff	1001.9	6.8	3	33%	14	233	-127	33%	1012.1
12		Carlo Fogaroli	1001.8	-25.3	7	14%	8	137	-192	57%	1004.2
-		Chris Willenken	1001.8	41.4	1	100%	142	142	142	100%	1145.6
-		JoAnna Stansby	1001.8	31.4	1	0%	141	141	141	100%	1141.4
-		Steve Altus	1001.8	22.5	2	50%	27	70	-17	50%	1022.3
-		Graham Hazel	1001.7	26.7	1	100%	186	186	186	100%	1135.9
13		Guy Campbell	1001.2	-36.5	11	36%	3	148	-192	55%	1001.9
-		Andrew Quinton	1001.1	-25.8	1	100%	84	84	84	100%	1089.8
-		James Dixon	1000.6	-18.3	1	0%	27	27	27	100%	1048.9
-		Shireen Mohandes	1000.3	-44.9	2	0%	-15	25	-55	50%	1004.2
-		Danny Fitelson	999.0	-15.1	1	0%	-43	-43	-43	0%	916.0
-		Jennifer Lin	998.5	-89.7	1	0%	-93	-93	-93	0%	879.4
-		John Barth	997.9	-32.7	1	0%	-153	-153	-153	0%	833.1
14		Byung Chun	991.5	-28.8	4	25%	-27	83	-130	25%	964.2
15		Nicholas Cheung	990.8	-56.5	10	20%	2	136	-263	80%	984.2
16		Luca Cesati Cassin	985.0	-20.4	6	17%	-47	348	-211	17%	959.6
17		Ben Chosid	984.8	-88.1	4	0%	-69	70	-174	25%	935.6
18		Laura Tidone	982.7	14.5	41	20%	-7	322	-266	41%	988.4
19		Tony Nunn	982.4	-10.8	25	28%	-21	241	-334	44%	984.1
20		Fabrizio Farnesi	977.5	0.5	31	29%	-10	356	-386	55%	982.2
21		David Adler	976.1	-24.9	11	27%	-26	236	-381	45%	962.2
22		Michael Wilkinson	975.1	-68.5	4	0%	-112	226	-451	50%	894.7
23		David Beer	973.5	-10.7	35	17%	-13	304	-321	54%	980.5
24		Raghavendra Rajkumar	971.8	-23.0	18	11%	-32	292	-495	50%	968.6
25		Massoun M ejjeh	957.3	-34.7	24	8%	-37	211	-317	46%	960.5
26		Annabella Palma	947.7	-44.4	28	18%	-50	218	-495	43%	956.0
27		Sally Woolsey	946.0	-11.7	13	15%	-72	174	-275	31%	924.5
28		John Therkelsen	938.0	-10.4	21	10%	-60	194	-280	24%	937.6
29		Willie Whitaker	936.2	27.9	8	0%	-135	85	-378	25%	868.8
30		Elisabetta Palma	929.1	-59.4	13	0%	-93	71	-355	31%	901.0
31		Doris Denny	919.4	-119.3	12	8%	-116	118	-404	33%	880.6
32		Dave Latham	896.5	-75.4	35	17%	-80	228	-318	31%	923.8

Hall of Fame, May 2005

Highest scores achieved over the same period:

	Name	Result
	Neil Trentham	414
	Chris Dixon	408
	Mike Rice	404
	Tong Choo	399
	Mike Rice	372

Hall of Shame, May 2005

Lowest scores over the same period:

	Name	Result
	Annabella Palma	-495
	Raghavendra Rajkumar	-495
	Michael Wilkinson	-451
	Doris Denny	-404
	Leonardo Cima	-388