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sedan 2001
I read an article (http://www.dailyherald.com/sports/sportsstory.asp?id=146310) about how a point system for ranking marathon runners is being made to help increase awareness of the sport. It is a very simple system, that uses a 2 year moving period, with a point breakout for 1st through 5th place. The breakout is 25, 15, 10, 5, and 1 point. A $1 million prize purse will be split evenly between the top male and female series finishers who rack up the most points during the two-year scoring period. Now in the pinball world, there is obviously no big prize at the end of the tunnel, but I thought it might help increase awareness if maybe there was some sort of official player rankings that can actually be quantified. I found as many tournament results as I could, and I'm using a 3 year period just so we have more data. I've had a chance to consult a bunch of different players, and am currently developing a system to rank pinball players OFFICIALLY. There is still some international results that need to get included, and a few additions on the US side as well, but here is how things look. Read further down for a breakdown of how each tournament is scored. We'll call them WPPR points for now :-) 1 Keith Elwin 431 2 Bowen Kerins 357 3 Neil Shatz 272 4 Roy Wils 218 5 Jim Belsito 210 6 Lyman Sheats 207 7 Chris Newsom 197 8 Josh Sharpe 174 9 Zach Sharpe 145 10 Trent Augenstein 124 11 Jörgen Holm 117 12 Stefan Andersson 109 13 Mats Runsten 100 14 Michael Lindström 96 15 Fredrik Lindberg 88 16 Paul Madison 82 17 Sean Grant 81 18 Andy Rosa 77 19 Albert Nomden 75 20 Dirk Klaver 70 21 Roger Wijnands 61 22 Andreas Harre 59 23 Karl Broström 58 24 Jason Werdrick 56 25 Reidar Spets 55 26 Mark van Duinen 52 27 Markus Stix 52 28 Patrik Bodin 51 29 Adam McKinnie 50 30 Ed Hershey 50 31 Steve Epstein 50 32 Per Holknekt 49 33 Linus Jorenbo 46 34 John Miller 42 35 Markus Salo 40 36 Mark Van Der Gugten 39 37 Brian Dominy 39 38 Keith Johnson 39 39 Fredrik Malmqvist 38 40 Mike Turack 38 41 Kevin Martin 37 42 Derek Fugate 36 43 Drew Cedolia 35 44 Daniel Schmatz 33 45 Paul Jongma 32 46 Taco Wouters 32 47 Stellan Blomqvist 31 48 Fred Richardson 31 49 Kim Brennan 30 50 James Furdell 30 51 Michel Van Den Elzen 30 52 Rick Prince 30 53 Andrei Massenkoff 29 54 Lars Ørskov Jensen 28 55 Paul McGlone 27 56 Mateo Leyba 27 57 Antoine van Wijk 27 58 Lars Ruehl 27 59 Martijn Van Amsterdam 27 60 Roland Nitsche 27 61 John McEwen 26 62 Jörg Buchacher 26 63 Martijn Van Aken 26 64 Martin Hotze 26 65 Ari Koivunen 25 66 Bob Winter 25 67 Georg Hinterhofer 25 68 Lars Preben Arnesen 25 69 Peter Van den Bergh 25 70 Szalai Krisztián 25 71 Vesa Tyry 25 72 Dave Stewart 23 73 Dave Hegge 22 74 Mike Mahaffey 22 75 Darren Kamnitzer 21 76 Rick Stetta 21 77 Bjorn Englund 20 78 Helena Walter 20 79 Ronald Blass 20 80 Ciske Vreuls 19 81 Sean Hall 19 82 Donavan Stepp 17 83 Eko Elens 17 84 Markus Straube 17 85 Ralph Beckers 17 86 Brian Bannon 17 87 Jeff Rank 15 88 Antti Peltonen 15 89 Ari Sovijärvi 15 90 Barna Péter 15 91 Cody Chunn 15 92 Glenn Gilliar 15 93 Jörgen Lindström 15 94 Jost Berger 15 95 Jostein Kastet 15 96 Lars Petterson 15 97 Magnus Frumerie 15 98 Markus Hofschuster 15 99 Robert Byers 15 100 Sebastian Sievers 15 * klippt bort ytterligare 300 placeringar*
Kvalresultat räknas för lågt
plus att vissa småtävlingar får en för hög status
rätt patetiskt att SM ger lika mycket poäng som Norska, Danska, Sörkka & Nossebro pinball masters
Men som sagt, systemet är långt ifrån klart, och han gick ut alldeles för tidigt
Stängda tävlingar (SM etc): Vi har pratat om det, och kommit fram till att de ska vara kvar