Win league = higher ranking Season 7 winners, left to right: Dominic Hutchinson, Wayne Smith, Munir Merchant |
The problem with the American Subbuteo Association's rankings is that they only include sanctioned tournaments. The Southern California Subbuteo Club plays so many other tournaments, seasons, and friendly games that count for naught with the ASA.
Dominic Hutchinson gave himself the task to create the "California rankings" for 2009, to make a better picture of the club's members' positions relative to one another. His rankings are based on three factors: "Tournaments", "Seasons", and "Other games".
- "Tournaments" include ASA Opens,
California State Championship, and other tournament like events
that have been played in over the course of last year.
- "Seasons" include Seasons 7 and 8, but not
Season 6 which started in 2008.
- "Other games" include friendly and all other games outside of a season and without a tournament structure.
The algorithm gives three times the weight to a player’s participation in a "Season" when compared to their participation in a "Tournament", as more games are played in a season than in one day tournaments. In turn "Tournaments" are weighted ten times more than "Other games".
The table, below, shows the number of "Seasons" and "Tournaments" the player participated in, and the number of "Other games" played. The "ASA Rank" is the players' relative position on the December 28, 2009, ASA rankings, it makes an interesting contrast to the "California rankings".
| Rank | Name | Sea- sons |
Tourn- aments |
Other Games |
ASA rank |
| 1 | Wayne Smith | 2 | 8 | 65 | 1 |
| 2 | Simon Hutchinson | 2 | 8 | 56 | 2 |
| 3 | Kevin Nieman | 2 | 8 | 35 | 6 |
| 4 | Steve Tucker | 1 | 4 | 11 | 7 |
| 5 | Jason Mitchell | 2 | 3 | 26 | 4 |
| 6 | Munir Merchant | 1 | 4 | 17 | 9 |
| 7 | Dominic Hutchinson | 2 | 5 | 22 | 8 |
| 8 | John Carroll | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 9 | David Jensen | 0 | 4 | 6 | 3 |
| 10 | Adam Carlson | 1 | 1 | 14 | N/R |
| 11 | Sean Daly | 0 | 1 | 0 | N/R |
Note: In the "ASA rank" column N/R means not ranked by the ASA.
The algorithm used is still a "work in progress" and we are striving to improve it. If you have any suggestions for enhancements please contact us through this website.