Snooker world rankings
The official World Snooker ranking is calculated from the results of the Main Tour Snooker Sports. Was introduced in the world rankings in the 1976 / 77th First, they took into account only the results of the World Snooker Championship, but different world ranking tournaments have been established over time. For the main tour but always include tournaments that traditionally remain without impact on the world rankings, such as the Masters.
- 5.1 Key points at a glance (2013 /14)
- 5.2 tournaments group stage
Update the rankings
Unlike other sports, such as tennis, the official Snooker world rankings was up to the 2009/10 season a solid ranking, which was updated only after the end of the season. Here, the points acquired during the last two seasons have been added.
Since the season 2010/11 the world rankings will be updated after each tournament in which there are ranking points. This is several times in the season - the so-called cut-off points - for new seedings for the following tournaments. This change in the rules reflects both the current power state of the snooker players to better resist and also prevents over again meet the same players. The ranking but also includes each period of 24 months. This prevents that a player with only one major tournament victory can be quickly set up in the rankings. Rather, henceforth to continuously good performance is rewarded.
Provisional ranking
Apart from the official world rankings, after the players up to and including in the season were the 2009/10 set for the tournaments, a further provisional world rankings was performed, which was updated after each ranking tournament. This list included the points of the preseason and the results of completed tournaments in the current season. The season before ( the pre-pre - season), the mitzählte in the official rankings, fell away in the provisional rankings. Since the season ended with the World Cup and then two full seasons counted for the provisional rankings, she agreed this time with the official ranking match. As in the Provisional ranking the current results were taken into account more, this was the current player usually playing strength better again than the official rankings.
Tournaments
The following eleven tournaments - - To Main Tour in the 2013/14 season 17 tournaments, of which are to be awarded points for the world ranking ( ranking tournaments):
- Wuxi Classic
- Australian Goldfields Open
- Shanghai Masters
- Indian Open
- International Championship
- UK Championship
- German Masters
- Welsh Open
- Haikou World Open
- China Open
- World Championship in Sheffield
Add to this the Players Tour Championship with a total of 12 tournaments and a final tournament, where there is a reduced number of world ranking points ( see section key points at a glance (2013 /14) ).
Seedings
The top 16 of the seedings are set automatically Tour for the tournaments of the Main. From 17th place, the players have to qualify first. The number of qualifying rounds depends on each of the placement in the seedings. Players from position 17 to 32 of the seedings have to play a qualifying round, players from position 33, two or more.
The World Champion is automatically set for the next season always as number 2, if it is placed deeper than at position 2. His position in the world rankings, however, remains unaffected.
If the world champion not in the top 16, as in the current season after Ronnie O'Sullivan was in 2013 to successfully defend his world title after his sabbatical year, the number 16 tour must qualify in the next season for the tournaments of the Main. This has happened before this season only twice (1979 and 2005 Terry Griffiths Shaun Murphy).
World Ranking (2013 /14)
The following table shows the top 32 of the Official World Ranking after the Shanghai Masters on 23 September 2013. The values in parentheses indicate the previous position (after the Paul Hunter Classic on August 26, 2013).
Key points
Key points at a glance (2013 /14)
Seeded players who lose their first game received, only half of the points ( in the table in parentheses below the regular score shown).
Tournaments group stage
Usually snooker tournaments are held in the knockout system.
Once was played at the Grand Prix preliminary round groups of six participants in the seasons 2006/ 07 and 2007 /08. These had " all against all " compete in a shortened game against each other. The top two finishers of the group reached the first knockout round, place 3 to 6 dropped out. In this discharge mode, players were ranked 3 and 4 of their group more points for the world rankings than the players who place 5 or 6 occupied. As part of this rule change the status of the Grand Prix was raised to 1.25 times the score of the other tournaments; So the winner got 6,250 points instead of 5,000 points credited. Since this system was highly controversial, it was abolished in the 2008 /09 season. Since then played again in the knockout system even at the now renamed in Haikou World Open Grand Prix.