Please note that this page contains a lot of detail about the Tantrix tournament Elo ratings, which are the best estimates of each player's strength based on the tournament games they have played so far. If you are not interested in all this detail, please go straight to one of the seeding lists (see links below) which are based on these Elo ratings but are much easier to read.

Tantrix Tournament Elo Ratings

The 30 April 2008 online table tournament Elo ratings for nearly 800 players can be found below the following notes. The ratings are based on a total of 35558 online tournament games, 1793 of which were played so far in 2008, and 4525 table tournament games of which 480 were played so far in 2008.

Please remember that whether a player's rating rises or falls depends partly on how he/she did compared to the same tournament a year ago in terms of actual results (margins) and the strength of opponents played. This does not necessarily mean how far they got in the tournament each year, though there is obviously a strong correlation with that. Because results from the same tournament a year before are deweighted by 50% in the calculation of the weighted average Elo (and results from the same tournament two years earlier are deweighted by another 50%, i.e. reduced to 25% of their original weighting, and so on), the ratings of some players who did not play in the latest tournaments but did play in them a year or two ago have also changed.

Under a classical Elo rating system like this, you do not start with an arbitrary rating like 500 and slowly move away from it. Instead, the system calculates a best estimate of your rating based on all the available evidence, i.e. all the tournament games you have played, even if you have not played very many. This makes the system fairer on your future opponents and gives a better idea of your true strength quickly. However, 'best estimate' does not mean necessarily mean 'likely to be maintained'. Ratings based on a low number of games have a large confidence interval around them and this is taken into account when converting Elo ratings into seeding points.

For example, if you played your first tournament game against the world no. 1 and beat him by a big margin, your rating for that game might be 2500. That is the level appropriate to someone who beats the world no. 1 by a big margin in every game, and you have beaten the world no. 1 by a big margin in every (one!) game so far, but that is clearly not sustainable over 35 more games ... or if it is, you are probably going to be the next World Champion! :-)

So, some players below have "established" ratings and some are "provisional". The best way to compare established and provisional players is to look at the seeding lists. These start off with the Elo ratings then points are deducted to allow for the greater confidence interval around provisional ratings.

Please note that Elo ratings depend on who you play and how heavily you win or lose against them rather than directly on your final position in each tournament, so sometimes the order of ratings for a tournament differs slightly from the final positions, eg. someone who wins their qualification group by a long way and beats a few top players but does not win the tournament might get a higher rating than someone who wins the tournament after just scraping through qualification or having an easy draw. For more info on the ratings, please see the links at the end of this page or email me.

     
TANTRIX TOURNAMENT ELO RATINGS as at 30 Apr 2008 (online & table)    
     
(the rating list can be found below these links)    
     
Click here for the current Online Tournament Seeding list (less detailed, so easier to understand than this page)   SINGLE TOURNAMENT FIGURES FOR THE CURRENT YEAR
Click here for the current Table Tournament Seeding list (less detailed, so easier to understand than this page)    
Click here to see all Tournament Master (TGM & ITM) norms and titles awarded so far   Single tournament ratings (and numbers of games) are shown below
Click here to return to the Elo rating and seeding home page   Online tournaments are highlighted like this
Click here to return to the Tantrix Tournaments Home Page   Table tournaments are highlighted like this
    TGM norms (rating+g>=2050, G>=20, >= 5 opponents) are shown in red
Most players will find the seeding lists (see links above) easier to follow - they are in seeding point order too, so also show positions.   ITM norms (rating+g>=2000, G>=7, >= 4 opponents) are shown in blue
The list below is in alphabetical order by Tantrix nickname (table players with no nickname at the end) to make it easy to find yourself.   Uncounted norms (already had max. norms of this type) are shown in brown
    TTM norms (rating+g>=2000, G>=7, >= 4 opponents) are shown in green
There is a key to what each column heading means at the bottom of the page   The Rating Month for a tournament is the month in which the tournament finishes, except that
  if a online tournament is completed in the first 7 days of a new month and 90% of it had been
Ratings marked E are ESTABLISHED ratings based on at least 3 tournaments, at least 36 tournament games and at least one tournament    completed by the end of the previous month, then the rating month will be the previous month.
game since the start of the last completed calendar year. Other ratings (marked P) are provisional and will be reduced before being used   However, the 2007 STC was added to the Dec 2007 ratings for reasons given on the forum
for seeding purposes to take into account greater uncertainty. Names of players with established online ratings are shown in bold type.    
   
PLAYER DETAILS ONLINE TOURNAMENT GAMES TABLE TOURNAMENT GAMES     INDIVIDUAL TOURNAMENTS IN 2008 (bold lines denote where new starting values used)
NO OF GAMES Change NO OF GAMES Change Rating Mth --> Other Apr-08 Apr-08 Mar-08 Mar-08 Jan-08 Influence of earlier years' results
Player Name Trn Country E/ T T' C Yr All Dwt * Elo * Since In E/ T T' C Yr All Dwt * Elo * Since In Lobby   Other 08WTTC 08BO 08NZO 08WJ 08GO Online Table
Mstr P =G Rating 31-Mar 2008 P =G Rating 31-Mar 2008 Nickname   G Elo G Elo G Elo G Elo G Elo G Elo T T' Gms G Elo T T' Gms G Elo
Totals> 1793 35558 Totals> 480 4525 Time Decay Factors ---> 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00    
                                             
Marek Reniers POL
E 9 3.5 Y 30 212 94.0 1908 +020 +020 E 6 3.1 Y 14 92 45.1 1922 = +026 1kornik21     30 1943             14 2009 8 2.5 182 64.0 1891 5 2.1 78 31.13 1882
László Klein HUN
P 3 1.0 N   79 25.5 1717 = =                     6lapos                           3 1.0 79 25.5 1717          
Ervin Bőhl HUN
E 8 2.9 y   152 56.1 1607 = -004                     Aapa                           8 2.9 152 56.1 1607          
Attila Bőhl HUN
E 16 7.2 Y 42 399 194.4 1905 +008 +007 E 3 2.5 Y 14 45 38.0 1889 = +007 Aata       42 1931             14 1902 15 6.2 357 152.4 1898 2 1.5 31 24 1882
Luis Morfin MEX
P 3 0.1 N   56 2.7