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, David Beer, Lew Stansby, Neil Trentham and Giles Woodruff, for providing advice and comments.

This month

Ladder

Halls of Shame & Fame

Game data

This year

Ladder

Zester and Apple Core Ladder

Halls of Shame & Fame

Previous ladders

January 2006

February 2006

March 2006

January 2004—December 2005

Previous game data

January 2006

February 2006

March 2006

January 2003—December 2005

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, 2006

January: JoAnna Stansby

February: Laura Tidone

March: Mike Rice

Winners, 2003-5

2005 ladder: Jérome Rombaut

2005 “Zester”: Martin Garvey

2005 “Apple core”: Jérome Rombaut

2004 ladder: Joel Wooldridge

2004 “Zester”: Neil Trentham

2004 “Apple core”: Joel Wooldridge

2003 ladder: JoAnna Stansby

Monthly/bimonthly/quarterly ladders: David Adler, Neil Allerton (twice), Steve Altus (twice), Giovanni Bobbio, Graham Hazel, Francesco Mazzadi, Joon Pahk, Armando Pontecorvo (twice), Jérome Rombaut (twice), Mike Rice, JoAnna Stansby, Lew Stansby (three times), Laura Tidone, Neil Trentham (twice) Willie Whitaker, Philip Wood, Kit Woolsey (twice)

Ladder, March 2006

This competition finished at midnight (UK time) on 31st March 2006. Congratulations to Mike Rice on his second win.

Pos		Name	Rating	Current playing strength	Games	Wins	Avg. score	Highest score	Lowest score	Positive scores	Rating (old method)
1		Mike Rice	1077.0	40.7	27	33%	89	366	-246	78%	1081.6
2		JoAnna Stansby	1056.1	34.0	26	19%	61	531	-182	73%	1060.1
3		T.C. Altus	1050.8	29.9	35	40%	51	299	-248	63%	1051.5
4		Willie Whitaker	1042.8	26.6	12	58%	76	278	-129	67%	1070.8
5		Laura de Laurentiis	1032.8	18.3	37	35%	41	316	-256	68%	1033.0
6		John Therkelsen	1028.8	9.1	18	28%	41	271	-475	61%	1036.2
7		Kit Woolsey	1024.8	37.4	22	27%	27	494	-272	45%	1028.1
8		Martin Garvey	1022.0	20.1	33	36%	27	531	-510	52%	1022.4
9		Armando Pontecorvo	1020.8	26.8	35	34%	27	339	-329	57%	1021.1
10		Giles Woodruff	1018.4	-5.7	4	25%	79	391	-87	50%	1082.8
11		Laura Tidone	1015.6	19.3	46	28%	23	319	-282	59%	1015.6
-		Massoun M ejjeh	1013.7	-24.2	2	50%	103	141	65	100%	1122.1
12		Steve Altus	1012.9	18.5	13	23%	10	172	-130	54%	1020.1
-		Lew Stansby	1012.4	36.2	3	33%	72	297	-184	67%	1074.0
13		David Beer	1011.4	-15.3	19	21%	14	239	-214	47%	1013.9
-		Li-Chung Chen	1010.8	28.8	1	0%	219	219	219	100%	1190.7
14		Elisabetta Palma	1009.8	-61.0	7	14%	23	114	-110	86%	1025.9
-		Leonardo Cima	1002.9	26.0	1	0%	28	28	28	100%	1050.8
15		Nicholas Cheung	1002.8	-56.3	5	40%	21	148	-149	60%	1010.3
-		Michael Wilkinson	1002.7	-39.2	1	0%	29	29	29	100%	1048.1
-		Francesco Mazzadi	1002.3	41.9	1	0%	15	15	15	100%	1040.5
16		Fabrizio Farnesi	1002.1	15.2	22	27%	8	280	-206	59%	1002.4
-		Prahalad Rajkumar	1001.6	-4.6	2	0%	10	126	-107	50%	1013.9
-		David Grainger	1001.3	29.0	2	50%	41	184	-103	50%	1011.1
-		Andy Bowles	998.4	7.6	1	0%	-48	-48	-48	0%	971.3
-		Jennifer Lin	997.5	-81.0	1	0%	-16	-16	-16	0%	955.4
-		Greg Ingolia	997.2	-25.5	2	0%	-27	8	-62	50%	974.7
-		Joel Wooldridge	995.4	43.6	1	0%	-65	-65	-65	0%	918.4
-		Fabio Lo Presti	995.3	2.4	2	0%	-58	-43	-73	0%	958.4
17		Luca Cesati Cassin	994.1	-10.5	26	23%	-10	374	-265	35%	993.7
-		Tong Choo	991.7	-16.9	1	0%	-124	-124	-124	0%	853.3
18		Sally Woolsey	991.5	-9.1	27	30%	-15	236	-349	56%	991.0
-		Tony Nunn	974.0	4.5	1	0%	-479	-479	-479	0%	538.6
19		Guy Campbell	972.4	-23.5	15	7%	-41	206	-558	60%	961.3
-		Andrew Quinton	968.2	-39.7	3	0%	-192	6	-303	33%	810.8
20		Jon Rice	967.7	6.5	8	13%	-66	110	-286	25%	924.7
21		Carlo Fogaroli	957.0	-48.7	13	8%	-78	155	-437	31%	933.0
22		Chris Dixon	952.5	4.7	21	29%	-51	224	-577	48%	944.9
23		Annabella Palma	925.5	-47.4	23	0%	-86	201	-370	26%	916.9
24		Andrew Garnett	899.7	-95.5	43	9%	-114	223	-522	30%	899.4
25		Doris Denny	892.5	-89.5	10	0%	-211	-119	-379	0%	793.4

Hall of Fame, March 2006

Highest scores achieved over the period:

	Name	Result
	Martin Garvey	531
	JoAnna Stansby	531
	Kit Woolsey	494
	Giles Woodruff	391
	Luca Cesati Cassin	374

Hall of Shame, March 2006

Lowest scores over the period:

	Name	Result
	Chris Dixon	-577
	Guy Campbell	-558
	Andrew Garnett	-522
	Martin Garvey	-510
	Tony Nunn	-479