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

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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.

Barbu Heroes

Largest number of ladder wins

Neil Trentham (11)

All time highest scorer

Kit Woolsey (+653)

Highest score on a single deal

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

Winners, 2008

January: Willie Whitaker

February: Ben Handley-Pritchard

March: Ben Handley-Pritchard

April: Armando Pontecorvo

May: Fabrizio Farnesi

June: Neil Trentham

July: Jon Rice

August: Chris Dixon

September: John Therkelsen

October: Neil Trentham

November: Neil Trentham

December: Neil Trentham

Winners, 2003-7

2007 ladder: Mike Rice

2007 “Zester”: Martin Garvey

2007 “Apple core”: Tony Nunn

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

Ladder, 2008

This competition finished at midnight (UK time) on 31st December 2008. 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	1046.1	23.3	19	37%	63	364	-213	68%	1056.1
2	Fabio Lo Presti	1040.8	28.0	32	38%	52	266	-413	69%	1041.7
3	Neil Trentham	1037.7	47.2	248	30%	47	471	-451	67%	1037.7
4	Ben Handley-Pritchard	1036.2	30.6	306	35%	47	530	-370	63%	1036.2
5	Lew Stansby	1035.8	27.5	43	33%	46	388	-266	65%	1035.9
6	Doron Limor	1030.3	28.2	119	31%	37	413	-340	57%	1030.3
7	Willie Whitaker	1022.5	19.6	69	32%	25	320	-420	62%	1022.5
8	Mike Rice	1020.7	24.4	227	26%	31	410	-359	61%	1020.7
-	Jérome Rombaut	1020.6	84.2	1	100%	341	341	341	100%	1365.3
9	Steve Altus	1020.1	18.1	99	26%	21	318	-309	65%	1020.1
10	David Adler	1020.0	-7.4	13	23%	37	266	-161	62%	1031.2
-	Raghavendra Rajkumar	1018.2	-22.7	5	40%	69	241	-91	60%	1065.7
11	Jon Rice	1016.0	11.4	191	27%	25	387	-387	58%	1016.0
12	Chris Dixon	1013.1	10.9	110	31%	20	394	-415	55%	1013.1
-	Dan Korbel	1008.3	25.4	6	33%	26	197	-71	67%	1025.3
13	T.C. Altus	1007.1	10.7	177	28%	14	376	-343	56%	1007.1
-	Giles Woodruff	1007.0	-5.2	4	50%	37	235	-156	50%	1031.6
14	JoAnna Stansby	1006.6	12.3	109	29%	10	329	-357	58%	1006.6
-	Jennifer Lin	1004.1	-70.4	1	100%	67	67	67	100%	1073.2
-	Alex Hydes	1003.2	-48.2	9	33%	9	251	-158	44%	1006.8
-	Neil Allerton	1002.1	49.5	1	0%	42	42	42	100%	1037.6
15	Martin Garvey	1001.5	7.1	195	30%	7	381	-454	52%	1001.5
-	Jon Cooke	999.4	0.7	1	0%	-30	-30	-30	0%	989.7
16	Kit Woolsey	998.7	1.0	164	31%	3	416	-446	54%	998.7
17	Fabrizio Farnesi	998.1	-12.2	329	32%	3	400	-719	55%	998.1
-	Susie Korbel	997.7	-16.9	1	0%	-57	-57	-57	0%	959.6
18	Anne Jackson	996.5	-1.1	390	25%	3	300	-538	54%	996.5
19	Armando Pontecorvo	995.2	0.2	51	31%	9	416	-444	57%	995.2
-	Joel Wooldridge	994.6	40.3	1	0%	-92	-92	-92	0%	904.1
-	David Grainger	993.8	39.3	1	0%	-114	-114	-114	0%	889.9
-	Sandra Probst	993.1	-30.4	1	0%	-111	-111	-111	0%	878.4
-	Giuseppe Failla	992.9	-55.8	1	0%	-118	-118	-118	0%	874.7
-	Andy Bowles	992.6	-2.2	4	0%	-36	23	-145	25%	966.8
20	Charlie Garrod	991.8	-13.6	25	20%	-5	272	-389	44%	991.1
21	Ed Levy	987.3	-33.9	131	24%	-7	445	-427	53%	987.3
22	Michael Wilkinson	987.0	-30.3	29	24%	-6	278	-291	52%	986.5
-	Andrew Quinton	985.4	-31.6	1	0%	-269	-269	-269	0%	740.2
23	Laura de Laurentiis	981.7	-11.7	241	21%	-10	306	-557	52%	981.7
-	Tong Choo	980.3	-20.9	1	0%	-409	-409	-409	0%	649.8
24	Joan Clark	980.1	-16.3	414	20%	-11	303	-456	49%	980.1
-	Junyi Zhu	978.4	-169.3	3	0%	-115	17	-315	33%	871.3
25	Sally Woolsey	975.5	-23.6	242	18%	-25	341	-395	46%	975.5
26	Richard Probst	974.8	-20.8	31	19%	-19	229	-277	45%	974.0
-	Prahalad Rajkumar	973.4	-19.2	7	14%	-62	87	-260	43%	930.0
27	Laura Tidone	971.8	-12.5	70	20%	-22	303	-375	43%	971.8
28	Andrew Garnett	970.2	-37.9	218	20%	-32	377	-474	43%	970.2
29	Guy Campbell	968.6	-26.6	42	24%	-23	354	-262	43%	968.5
-	Federico Di Noto	962.0	-47.3	8	25%	-81	246	-370	25%	911.4
-	Shireen Mohandes	961.6	-53.6	3	0%	-230	-161	-348	0%	771.6
30	Nicholas Cheung	940.6	-53.2	20	15%	-59	187	-332	40%	929.5
31	Alex Werner	933.7	-65.1	33	12%	-62	313	-481	42%	932.4
32	Mel Klein	929.3	-116.7	12	0%	-96	76	-367	25%	882.9
-	Lara Ruso	929.1	-199.2	8	13%	-157	168	-410	25%	834.4
-	Lawrence Xu	927.6	-192.5	3	0%	-415	-106	-654	0%	569.1
33	Annabella Palma	917.9	-72.3	122	10%	-78	287	-427	27%	917.9
34	Luca Cesati Cassin	916.4	-22.5	21	5%	-89	148	-335	29%	903.0
35	Carlo Fogaroli	915.0	-45.7	38	11%	-77	212	-440	39%	914.4
36	Doris Denny	894.1	-98.0	63	8%	-96	236	-468	29%	894.1
37	Leonardo Cima	865.0	-52.6	62	6%	-130	174	-518	26%	865.0

Hall of Fame, 2008

Highest scores achieved over the period:

	Name	Result
	Ben Handley-Pritchard	530
	Ben Handley-Pritchard	495
	Neil Trentham	471
	Ed Levy	445
	Armando Pontecorvo	416

Hall of Shame, 2008

Lowest scores over the period:

	Name	Result
	Fabrizio Farnesi	-719
	Lawrence Xu	-654
	Laura de Laurentiis	-557
	Anne Jackson	-538
	Fabrizio Farnesi	-535

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