1985–86 snooker world rankings explained

The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), the governing body for professional snooker, first introduced a ranking system for professional players in 1976, with the aim of seeding players for the World Snooker Championship. The reigning champion would be automatically seeded first, the losing finalist from the previous year seeded second, and the other seedings based on the ranking list. Initially, the rankings were based on performances in the preceding three world championships.

After the 1982 World Snooker Championship, two other tournaments which were open to all members of the WPBSA – the International Open and the Professional Players Tournament – carried ranking points. Points for world championship finishes from 1983 became worth double the previous tariff, with ten points for the winner, eight for the runner up, and so on. In the 1983/1984 snooker season, the Lada Classic was added as a ranking tournament. The UK Championship and Dulux British Open were added to the ranking list from the 1984/1985 season, which meant that performances in those events were taken into account for the 1985/1986 rankings. In the same season, due to changes in sponsors, the Professional Players Tournament became the Rothmans Grand Prix, and the Lada Classic became the Mercantile Credit Classic. The tournaments that counted towards the 1985/1986 rankings were those which were open to all professional players over the preceding three seasons.

Merit points were awarded to players who were required to compete in qualifying rounds of ranking tournaments and reached the last 32, with a full merit point awarded if this was achieved in the world championship, and half a merit point otherwise. No points were awarded to a player who did not win any matches in a given tournament (for example, a top 16 player seeded into the last 32 of the world championship would not win any merit points if they lost their first match).[1] [2]

The journalist Janice Hale commented in March 1985 that as the ranking list was updated only annually, players such as John Spencer who had won only one match in the year since the 1984 World Championship, and Bill Werbeniuk, who had not won any, were at an advantage over other players who had performed better in that time, as the top 16 received direct entry to the last-32 round of the 1985 World Snooker Championship, meaning that their minimum guaranteed prize money was higher.[3]

Steve Davis retained the number one position that he had held in the previous two ranking lists, while Cliff Thorburn moved up from second to third, exchanging places with Tony Knowles. The 1985 World champion Dennis Taylor moved up from 11th to fourth. Of the top 16 players from the previous year, the largest drops were by Eddie Charlton, from sixth to 12th, and by Spencer, who went from 13th to 20th.

Points tariff

In addition to standard ranking points, a "merit" point was awarded for losers in the last 32 of the World Championship, and a half merit point awarded to losers in the last 32 of other ranking tournaments. No points were awarded to a player who did not win any matches in a given tournament (for example, a top 16 player seeded into the last 32 of the world championship would not win any merit points if they lost their first match). Merit points were only used to determine placings between players that had an equal opportunity to earn them; players in the top 16 could not earn merit points from tournaments where they were exempted into the last-32 round. Players ranked from 77 to 102 had no ranking or merit points, with their positions determined by their performances in the 1985 World Snooker Championship, with frames won being taken into consideration if the round reached was equal.[2]

Placing!scope=col
World Championshipsscope=col Other Ranking Tournaments
scope=row Champion 10 5
scope=row Runner-up 8 4
scope=row Losing semi-finalist 6 3
scope=row Losing Quarter-finalist 4 2
scope=row Last 16 Loser 2 1
scope=row Last 32 Loser 1 merit point 0.5 merit point

Rankings

The rankings for the 1985/1986 season are shown in the tables below.[4]

Ranking! scope=col rowspan=2
Namescope=colgroup colspan=3 1982–83 seasonscope=colgroup colspan=4 1983–84 seasonscope=colgroup colspan=6 1984–85 seasonscope=col rowspan=2 Totalscope=col rowspan=2 Merit points
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scope=row 69data-sort-value="McLaughlin, Jack" align=leftdata-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0(0.5)data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0(0.5)
scope=row 70data-sort-value="Duggan, Steve" align=left(0.5)data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0(0.5)
scope=row 71data-sort-value="Kelly, Billy" align=left(0.5)data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0(0.5)
scope=row 72data-sort-value="Jonik, Frank" align=leftdata-sort-value=(-1)0(0.5)data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0(0.5)
scope=row 73data-sort-value="Everton, Clive" align=leftdata-sort-value=(-1)0(0.5)data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0(0.5)
scope=row 74data-sort-value="Fitzmaurice, Jack" align=leftdata-sort-value=(-1)0(0.5)data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0(0.5)
scope=row 75data-sort-value="Morgan, Paddy" align=leftdata-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0(0.5)data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0(0.5)
scope=row 76data-sort-value="Rea, Jackie" align=left(0.5)data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0data-sort-value=(-1)0(0.5)
Ranking! scope=col
Namescope=col 1985 WC result
scope=row 77 data-sort-value="Rigitano, Gino" align=leftdata-sort-value="48 8"Lost 8–10 at last 48 stage
scope=row 78 data-sort-value="Foulds, Geoff" align=leftdata-sort-value="48 6"Lost 6–10 at last 48 stage
scope=row 79 data-sort-value="Chalmers, Dave" align=leftdata-sort-value="48 1"Lost 1–10 at last 48 stage
scope=row 80 data-sort-value="van Renburg, Jimmy" align=leftdata-sort-value="64 9"Lost 9–10 at last 48 stage
scope=row 81 data-sort-value="Gibson, Matt" align=leftdata-sort-value="64 8"Lost 8–10 at last 48 stage
scope=row 82 data-sort-value="Mikkelsen, Bernie" align=leftdata-sort-value="80 9"Lost 9–10 at last-80 stage
scope=row 83 data-sort-value="Hines, Mike" align=leftdata-sort-value="80 7"Lost 7–10 at last-80 stage
scope=row 84 data-sort-value="Anderson, Ian" align=leftdata-sort-value="80 5"Lost 5–10 at last-80 stage
scope=row 85 data-sort-value="Oliver, Bill" align=leftdata-sort-value="80 3"Lost 3–10 at last-80 stage
scope=row 86 data-sort-value="Burke, Pascal" align=leftdata-sort-value="80 3"Lost 3–10 at last-80 stage
scope=row 87 data-sort-value="Cagianello, Joe" align=leftdata-sort-value="80 0"Withdrew at last-80 stage
scope=row 88 data-sort-value="Hughes, Dennis" align=leftdata-sort-value="96 9"Lost 9–10 at last-96 stage
scope=row 89 data-sort-value="Cripsey, Graham" align=leftdata-sort-value="96 8"Lost 8–10 at last-96 stage
scope=row 90 data-sort-value="Kearney, Anthony" align=leftdata-sort-value="96 8"Lost 8–10 at last-96 stage
scope=row 91 data-sort-value="Parkin, Maurice" align=leftdata-sort-value="96 6"Lost 6–10 at last-96 stage
scope=row 92 data-sort-value="Demarco, Bert" align=leftdata-sort-value="96 4"Lost 4–10 at last-96 stage
scope=row 93 data-sort-value="Watchorn, Paul" align=leftdata-sort-value="96 4"Lost 4–10 at last-96 stage
scope=row 94 data-sort-value="Bennett, Bernard" align=leftdata-sort-value="96 4"Lost 4–10 at last-96 stage
scope=row 95data-sort-value="Mienie, Derek" align=leftdata-sort-value="96 4"Lost 4–10 at last-96 stage
scope=row 96 data-sort-value="Greaves, David" align=leftdata-sort-value="96 3"Lost 3–10 at last-96 stage
scope=row 97 data-sort-value="Darrington, Mike" align=leftdata-sort-value="96 2"Lost 2–10 at last-96 stage
scope=row 98 data-sort-value="Heywood, Leon" align=leftdata-sort-value="96 1"Lost 1–10 at last-96 stage
scope=row 99 data-sort-value="Sheehan, Dessie" align=leftdata-sort-value="99 9"Lost 9–10 in round 1
scope=row 100 data-sort-value="Bales, Roger" align=leftdata-sort-value="99 7"Lost 7–10 in round 1
scope=row 101 data-sort-value="Giannaros, James" align=leftdata-sort-value="99 2"Lost 1–10 in round 1
scope=row 102 data-sort-value="Hargreaves, John" align=leftdata-sort-value="99 0"Lost 0–10 in round 1

References

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Notes and References

  1. How they stand: official world rankings 1985 . . Everton's News Agency . Birmingham . 18–19 . June 1984 .
  2. World rankings and how they earned them . . Everton's News Agency . Birmingham . 4–5 . July 1985 .
  3. News: Janice . Hale . The Observer . 3 March 1985 . 46 . Seeds that are not always hardy annuals . Newspapers.com . 27 April 2024 . 10 May 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240510213920/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-observer-seeds-that-are-not-always-h/146125777/ . live .
  4. Web site: Ranking History. Snooker.org. 26 April 2024. 8 February 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230208075400/https://www.snooker.org/rnk/history.asp?sort=1985/1986&order=asc. live.