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 2007

February 2007

March 2007

January 2004—December 2006

Previous game data

January 2007

February 2007

March 2007

January 2003—December 2006

Barbu Heroes

Largest number of ladder wins

Neil Trentham (5, but mostly lucky)

All time highest scorer

Kit Woolsey (+653)

Highest score on a single deal

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

Winners, 2007

January: Neil Trentham

February: John Therkelsen

March: John Therkelsen

Winners, 2003-6

2006 ladder: Francesco Mazzadi

2006 “Zester”: Martin Garvey

2006 “Apple core”: David Grainger

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, Martin Garvey (three times), Francesco Mazzadi (twice), Joon Pahk, Armando Pontecorvo (twice), Jérome Rombaut (twice), Mike Rice (twice), JoAnna Stansby (twice), Lew Stansby (three times), John Therkelsen (twice), Laura Tidone (twice), Neil Trentham (four times), Willie Whitaker (twice), Philip Wood, Kit Woolsey (twice)

Ladder, March 2007

This competition finished at midnight (UK time) on 31st March 2007. Congratulations to John Therkelsen.

Pos		Name	Rating	Current playing strength	Games	Wins	Avg. score	Highest score	Lowest score	Positive scores	Rating (old method)
1		John Therkelsen	1093.2	48.1	31	58%	102	428	-266	74%	1095.9
2		Kit Woolsey	1062.1	26.5	24	38%	66	343	-358	63%	1068.2
3		T.C. Altus	1049.5	31.0	56	41%	60	329	-323	73%	1049.5
4		Martin Garvey	1042.4	27.3	31	32%	54	388	-280	65%	1043.6
5		Luca Cesati Cassin	1023.7	-8.3	9	44%	61	171	-75	78%	1049.8
6		Willie Whitaker	1021.1	29.0	53	36%	32	379	-420	55%	1021.1
7		Laura Tidone	1018.0	10.0	55	27%	32	306	-247	58%	1018.0
8		Chris Dixon	1016.6	5.7	38	45%	33	300	-355	58%	1016.7
9		David Adler	1015.3	-2.0	19	16%	28	415	-203	58%	1018.6
10		Armando Pontecorvo	999.9	15.7	37	32%	15	319	-262	54%	999.9
11		Sally Woolsey	999.2	-8.0	45	24%	-3	260	-429	51%	999.2
12		Charlie Garrod	999.2	3.3	12	25%	9	322	-278	42%	998.6
-		Andy Bowles	997.3	6.5	1	0%	-59	-59	-59	0%	952.4
-		Jon Rice	995.9	13.8	1	0%	-35	-35	-35	0%	927.2
-		David Beer	995.7	-8.2	1	0%	-49	-49	-49	0%	924.5
-		Jennifer Lin	995.6	-75.7	1	0%	-101	-101	-101	0%	922.3
13		Fabio Lo Presti	993.4	23.0	15	33%	4	290	-233	47%	990.7
-		Nicholas Cheung	992.7	-48.5	1	0%	-138	-138	-138	0%	870.7
-		Massoun M ejjeh	990.3	-25.3	1	0%	-173	-173	-173	0%	827.9
-		Andrew Garnett	987.7	-62.8	1	0%	-206	-206	-206	0%	781.2
-		Lara Ruso	984.7	-53.4	1	0%	-243	-243	-243	0%	727.8
14		Neil Trentham	982.3	31.3	32	19%	-19	359	-304	47%	981.8
15		Anne Jackson	981.3	-29.5	67	19%	-4	339	-502	46%	981.3
16		Laura de Laurentiis	981.0	-12.3	72	21%	-5	296	-480	54%	981.0
-		Shireen Mohandes	980.1	-42.9	2	0%	-185	-139	-231	0%	822.7
17		Guy Campbell	977.5	-29.6	13	23%	-21	184	-240	46%	965.0
18		Steve Altus	969.0	11.3	16	13%	-48	182	-244	31%	958.2
19		Mike Rice	967.8	36.2	5	40%	-104	116	-346	40%	883.6
20		Ben Handley-Pritchard.	966.6	-45.3	38	16%	-16	290	-335	45%	966.4
-		Gerben Dirksen	965.8	-114.2	2	0%	-267	-188	-345	0%	696.2
21		Fabrizio Farnesi	964.5	-10.3	32	28%	-17	284	-293	50%	963.6
22		Michael Wilkinson	961.8	-61.3	26	15%	-25	361	-361	46%	959.1
23		Annabella Palma	961.6	-54.4	34	21%	-31	294	-469	44%	961.0
24		Joan Clark	958.7	-37.1	79	13%	-27	304	-426	37%	958.7
25		Richard Probst	952.6	-42.5	31	23%	-37	350	-409	45%	951.2
26		Lawrence Xu	949.3	-165.8	5	20%	-158	257	-500	20%	816.5
27		Carlo Fogaroli	945.7	-45.4	12	8%	-80	234	-244	33%	910.0
28		Ed Levy	931.7	-76.4	31	16%	-55	217	-391	45%	929.7
29		Sandra Probst	922.3	-76.3	30	3%	-65	246	-379	33%	919.5

Hall of Fame, March 2007

Highest scores achieved over the period:

	Name	Result
	John Therkelsen	428
	David Adler	415
	Martin Garvey	388
	Martin Garvey	384
	Willie Whitaker	379

Hall of Shame, March 2007

Lowest scores over the period:

	Name	Result
	Anne Jackson	-502
	Lawrence Xu	-500
	Laura de Laurentiis	-480
	Annabella Palma	-469
	Sally Woolsey	-429