Blog entry from 2023-01-02
With the start of the current 2022/23 sports season, we switched the Home Tour overall ranking to a new system that is very similar to the ELO ratings in chess. The old ranking system was designed as a cumulative point ranking, in which the players collected a different number of ranking list points, according to a statically fixed points system, for each tournament entry and depending on the tournament results achieved, in order to crown the players with the most points to the overall ranking winners at the end of the season. The weak point of the old system was the high dependency on the number of tournament participations, which is why many good players had no chance in the discipline rankings due to deadlines, and the old rankings could only partially reflect the playing strengths of the players.
That's why we have completely revised the old ranking system and poured it into a new overall concept with the associated change from fixed tournament dates to freely agreed match dates (more on this in Sports season 2022/23 launched). The new ELO rating system is a continuous ranking list with no end of term. The ranking leaders are awarded prize money on certain dates (e.g. end of quarter, end of month ...).
ELO rating systems, which originally come from chess and have now been adapted for many other sports, try to reflect the playing strengths of the players as objectively as possible. For each match, the playing strengths of the players are put in relation to each other in order to calculate the athletes' probability of victory. Playing strengths are measured in ranking points - the more points a player has, the stronger he/she is and the higher he/she is in the rankings. The probability of victory is (theoretically) between 0% and 100%. These probabilities are used to calculate the ranking points that can be awarded in a match. The winner gains ranking points, the loser loses ranking points.
If two similarly strong players play against each other, then the gain of points for the winner as well as the loss of points for the loser are in the middle point range. The greater the difference between the two players' win probabilities, the more ranking points are in play. If a clearly weaker player according to ranking list points wins against a clearly better one, then the weaker player gains a lot of ranking points and the stronger one has to give up a lot of ranking points. If a player who is clearly stronger according to ranking list points wins against a clearly weaker player, then the stronger player gains very few ranking points and the weaker player has to lose very few ranking points.
Top 3 in the current ELO three cushion ranking 2023#1:
- 5750 pts: Efler, Andreas (AT)
- 5250 pts: Schmied, Georg (AT)
- 5150 pts: Riml, Jimmy (AT)
Top 3 in the current ELO five pins ranking 2023#1:
- 5550 pts: Driessen, Ernst-Jan (NL)
- 5500 pts: Garavaglia, Luca Marzio (IT)
- 5350 pts: Riml, Jimmy (AT)
