Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history
KrazeeEyezKilla wrote:Under this system James Wattana would have been a seed at both the 1990 & 1991 World Championships. He didn't play in either of them.
He's definitely been treated unfairly.
This has always been the case actually, by which I mean good new players on the tour have always been given unfairly hard draws because of the ranking system in place, and established players on the decline have been given unfairly easier draws. With the real ranking systems that have been used, it typically takes around 2 and a half years in time, AND participation in 20+ events for a player to get close to having a fair ranking, should they be allowed that long on tour, and should they be given that many opportunities to play. In our current (2020) real ranking system, there are a lot of players perennially stuck in the 65-90 ranking bracket who are better than many of the players in the 45-64 bracket. Only players who are among the 32 best in the world are likely to break into the top 64 after two years, the 33-64th best players can only get in if they are very lucky with their draws. This has led to us missing out on a number of players over the years who should have broken into the top 64 (and could then have gone on to bigger things as they grew as players), but didn't and gave up.
With the system used in this thread, a player can get to a reasonably fair ranking within about 6 months, and 5-6 seeded draw ranking events or 10+ flat draw ranking events.
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