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 2008

January 2004—December 2007

Previous game data

January 2008

January 2003—December 2007

Barbu Heroes

Largest number of ladder wins

Neil Trentham (7)

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

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, January 2008

This competition finished at midnight (UK time) on 31st January 2008. Congratulations to Willie Whitaker.

Pos		Name	Rating	Current playing strength	Games	Wins	Avg. score	Highest score	Lowest score	Positive scores	Rating (old method)
1		Willie Whitaker	1049.0	26.0	27	33%	62	320	-305	70%	1051.9
2		T.C. Altus	1037.9	27.4	23	52%	41	216	-284	65%	1042.3
3		Steve Altus	1011.0	14.6	24	17%	9	282	-261	54%	1012.1
-		Fabio Lo Presti	1009.9	26.0	2	50%	97	187	6	100%	1088.2
-		Mike Rice	1009.4	40.4	3	33%	69	141	21	100%	1055.8
-		Charlie Garrod	1008.2	-14.3	1	100%	138	138	138	100%	1145.5
-		Lew Stansby	1007.9	25.4	3	0%	63	95	31	100%	1047.0
-		Guy Campbell	1007.5	-23.5	2	50%	77	282	-129	50%	1067.1
4		Chris Dixon	1004.4	6.5	33	30%	15	268	-415	58%	1004.4
-		Lara Ruso	1003.8	-165.5	2	50%	42	168	-85	50%	1033.6
5		Ben Handley-Pritchard	1002.4	8.6	60	33%	17	299	-369	57%	1002.4
6		Neil Trentham	1001.2	25.4	21	38%	17	246	-318	67%	1001.4
7		Armando Pontecorvo	999.7	2.4	8	25%	16	165	-238	75%	999.4
8		Ed Levy	998.2	-60.1	20	25%	5	222	-325	55%	997.8
9		Laura de Laurentiis	997.9	-4.0	42	24%	12	306	-305	55%	997.9
-		JoAnna Stansby	994.4	16.0	3	33%	-20	83	-192	67%	966.7
-		Giuseppe Failla	992.9	-58.7	1	0%	-118	-118	-118	0%	874.8
10		Kit Woolsey	992.9	4.4	33	24%	-6	416	-349	58%	992.7
11		Sally Woolsey	992.4	-21.1	27	15%	-17	201	-305	41%	992.0
-		Nicholas Cheung	992.0	-50.0	1	0%	-142	-142	-142	0%	857.8
12		Richard Probst	991.8	-18.6	9	22%	-11	201	-277	56%	982.8
13		Martin Garvey	990.2	13.9	17	24%	-4	206	-249	47%	987.3
14		Doron Limor	989.9	-3.5	10	20%	4	227	-252	50%	980.5
15		Laura Tidone	986.2	-3.8	22	27%	-9	303	-268	45%	984.3
-		Andrew Quinton	985.4	-34.5	1	0%	-269	-269	-269	0%	740.3
16		Joan Clark	984.2	-39.5	38	21%	-6	291	-397	45%	984.1
17		Anne Jackson	979.5	-19.5	36	17%	-9	207	-248	47%	979.3
-		Junyi Zhu	978.4	-172.2	3	0%	-115	17	-315	33%	871.4
18		Alex Werner	965.9	-121.9	4	0%	-146	53	-481	25%	846.8
19		Luca Cesati Cassin	954.4	-17.9	5	0%	-169	-11	-335	0%	835.1
20		Carlo Fogaroli	950.2	-37.3	10	10%	-88	212	-440	40%	904.3
21		Annabella Palma	944.0	-56.4	29	10%	-55	248	-299	28%	941.6

Hall of Fame, January 2008

Highest scores achieved over the period:

	Name	Result
	Kit Woolsey	416
	Willie Whitaker	320
	Willie Whitaker	310
	Laura de Laurentiis	306
	Laura Tidone	303

Hall of Shame, January 2008

Lowest scores over the period:

	Name	Result
	Alex Werner	-481
	Carlo Fogaroli	-440
	Chris Dixon	-415
	Joan Clark	-397
	Ben Handley-Pritchard	-369