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The top 50 by age

Postby LDS

A few years back I did some graphics about the age of all the World Championship players. Since then there's been some people gaining birthdays.

Let's broaden the scope and have a look at the current ages of all the players currently ranked top 50 in the world, from youngest to oldest (age on the left, current ranking in brackets on the right) in ascending order.

Teenagers - zero
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21 - Fan Zhengyi (36)
22 - Yan Bingtao (16)
24 - Zhou Yuelong (26)
24 - Lyu Haotian (34)
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25 - Zhao Xintong (9)
27 - Luca Brecel (11)
28 - Hossein Vafaei (18)
28 - Jamie Clarke (43)
28 - Lu Ning (40)
28 - Sam Craigie (37)
29 - Jak Jones (46)
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30 - Noppon Saengkham (33)
30 - Chris Wakelin (45)
30 - Kyren Wilson (8)
31 - Jack Lisowski (10)
31 - Anthony McGill (20)
31 - Liam Highfield (41)
32 - Li Hang (47)
33 - Judd Trump (3)
33 - Xiao Guodong (35)
34 - Jamie Jones (31)
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35 - Jordan Brown (23)
35 - Ben Woolaston (44)
35 - Ding Junhui (19)
35 - Liang Wenbo (50)
36 - Jimmy Robertson (25)
36 - Mark Allen (5)
37 - Gary Wilson (32)
37 - Matthew Selt (27)
39 - Tom Ford (22)
39 - Mark Selby (2)
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40 - Ricky Walden (21)
40 - Shaun Murphy (12)
40 - Neil Robertson (4)
41 - Martin Gould (42)
41 - Dave Gilbert (17)
41 - Stephen Maguire (29)
42 - Ryan Day (15)
43 - Ali Carter (24)
43 - Barry Hawkins (13)
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45 - Matthew Stevens (49)
45 - Graeme Dott (38)
46 - Stuart Bingham (14)
46 - Robert Milkins (28)
46 - Ronnie O'Sullivan (1)
47 - John Higgins (6)
47 - Mark Williams (7)
48 - Joe Perry (30)
48 - Mark King (48)
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51 - Anthony Hamilton (39)

So 25 players are over 35 while 25 are 35 and under, making 35.5 one version of average. So by this average Ding is still very much of average age and should have plenty of years left to get his World Championship. Selby is also relatively young still by this average.

the average age by totalling all the ages and dividing by 50 is 36, so by this method Ding is actually still below average age and Selby is even closer to the average age.

Luca Brecel is the youngest non-chinese player on the list at 27 and Jamie Clarke the youngest UK player and Sam Craigie the youngest Englishman, both at 28.

The scene is very much ripe for the plucking for any wannabe new Davis/Hendry style player who has the desire and talent to really dominate.

Re: The top 50 by age

Postby Holden Chinaski

LDS wrote:The scene is very much ripe for the plucking for any wannabe new Davis/Hendry style player who has the desire and talent to really dominate.

Julien Leclercq and Ben Mertens will dominate snooker soon. The Belgiums are coming.

Re: The top 50 by age

Postby SnookerEd25

Are there any 60 year old players currently enjoying something of a revival? :chin:

Re: The top 50 by age

Postby gninnur karona

LDS wrote:So 25 players are over 35 while 25 are 35 and under, making 35.5 one version of average. So by this average Ding is still very much of average age and should have plenty of years left to get his World Championship.


In theory yes but the history books suggest that the odds are against it. There've been 12 first-time winners since Stephen Hendry's initial triumph. All bar one were aged between 22 and 31. Stuart Bingham very much an outlier, a one-off since 1990.

I wonder how many first-time winners aged 32 or more there will be over the next decade? Ding Junhui? Mark Allen? Kyren Wilson (from 2024)? Three realistic candidates. But. One decade, only ten champions.


   

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