Rankings so far...

[Signal Fire]

Dale was provisional top 16 after the first tournament! Now he's borderline top 32.

Harold is moving up, and Swail is guaranteed to be back in the 16.

The Rankings are looking better than ever.

[chasmmi]

OKay, its updated on the main page hopefully mistake free too or at least close to...

Right now it is a straight scrap for number one between Murphy, O Sullivan and Maguire with it simply being a case of whoever goes furthest gets it.


For the top 16 it is down to 9 fighting over four places. (I have triple checked and Perry is safe as Swail and DOherty cannot both catch him.)

The 9 are:

13 Graeme Dott 1400 27144
14 Marco Fu 2800 27000
15 Mark King 3800 26000
16 Mark Allen 2800 25725
18 Ken Doherty 1400 25119
20 Joe Swail 3800 24725
21 Stuart Bingham 3800 24625
22 Mark Williams 3800 23925
31 Anthony Hamilton 2800 20813


Starting from the bottom...

Hamilton needs to make at least the final to stand a chance and may well have to win it so it is unlikely he will make it.

If Williams reaches the semis he will be on 26525 which would be enough unless two out of: King beats Ebdon, Doherty beats Wenbo, Bingham makes semis, Hamilton wins worlds, happen.

If Bingham beats Perry he will be on 25825 so will be there if Wenbo makes the quarters, and Williams doesn't make the semis and Hamilton in't World Champion.


If Swail wins his 2nd round then he'll be on 25925, this will be enough if his opponent is Wenbo, Bingham and Williams don't better his acheivement and Hamilton doesn't win the event.

If Doherty come back against Wenbo then barring silliness he will be safe. If he loses he is out.

Allen will survive if Wenbo makes the quarter finals AND Bingham loses to Perry AND Williams doesn't make the Semis And Hamilton doesn't make the final.

King will probably be there if he beats Ebdon. If he loses he will drop out if two of the following happen:

Doherty beats Wenbo, Swail makes Semis, Bingham makes semis, Williams makes semis, Hamilton makes final.


Fu and Dott are probably safe, they can only really fall if 3(Fu)/4(Dott) of the follwoing happen.


Doherty beats Wenbo, King beats Ebdon, Swail makes semis, Bingham makes semis, Williams makes the final, Hamilton makes final.



Added note, A Doherty win will mean all players below him will have to win at least 2 matches to break into the top 16.


The top 32 is pretty much set at the bottom end and will only change if Wenbo becomes World Champion. IN this scenario he will rise to 26 in the World and push Dale off the end.


Chuang is currently playing for his tour place. Beating Ronnie won't get him in the top 64 but it will put him top of the one year list which he currently isn't in. To make the top 64 by right will require reaching the quarter finals. The final will be enough for a top 48 finish and Liu Chuang: World Champion means he is World number 40.

All of this subject to idiocy I must add.

[chasmmi]

With the Doherty result in, Dott is now assured of his top 16 place bar an amazing Hamilton comeback which spurs on a run to the final.


Now it is down to a straight fight between Fu, King, Allen, Bingham, Swail and Williams for those final three places.


If I could choose the three players, it would be Fu, Bingham and Swail (I would so love to see Swail somehow fight his way to the championship.)

[Signal Fire]

With the Doherty result in, Dott is now assured of his top 16 place bar an amazing Hamilton comeback which spurs on a run to the final.


Now it is down to a straight fight between Fu, King, Allen, Bingham, Swail and Williams for those final three places.


If I could choose the three players, it would be Fu, Bingham and Swail (I would so love to see Swail somehow fight his way to the championship.)

Swail will do it mate - don't you worry about that!

[Templeton Peck]

Even though Wenbo can't officially get into the top 16 if he wins you have to remember he gets an honorary top 16 place so the the number 16 player has to then go to qualifiers. It happened to McCulloch when Murphy won it.

[chasmmi]

Just to give some people a running tally of what is going on, here are how the rankings stand as of the end of Carter/Murphy:

1 Shaun Murphy 45050
2 Ronnie O'Sullivan 3800 44950
3 Stephen Maguire 3800 44326
4 Mark Selby 38325
5 John Higgins 37926
6 Neil Robertson 3800 35350
7 Ryan Day 5000 33876
8 Peter Ebdon 5000 32975
9 Stephen Hendry 5000 32875
10 Ding Junhui 32194
11 Allister Carter 5000 31176
12 Joe Perry 3800 27825
13 Graeme Dott 27144
14 Marco Fu 27000
15 Mark King 26000
16 Mark Allen 25725
17 Matthew Stevens 25413
18 Ken Doherty 25119
19 Jamie Cope 24744
20 Joe Swail 3800 24725
21 Stuart Bingham 3800 24625
22 Mark Williams 3800 23925
23 Nigel Bond 23613
24 Fergal O’Brien 22538
25 Ian McCulloch 22432
26 Stephen Lee 22219
27 Barry Hawkins 22126
28 Dave Harold 21494
29 Steve Davis 21419
30 Michael Judge 20826
31 Anthony Hamilton 2800 20813
32 Dominic Dale 20688


44 Liang Wenbo 3800 16075
80 Liu Chuang 10050


Players in Red: Players who are out already and thus for whom the only way is down.

Players in Blue: Players who are a round ahead and so have an elevated points tally.

Players in Black: Still in tournament and competing in the current round in play.

[elvaago]

So it's between Maguire and O'Sullivan.

*prays that Maguire wins the tournament*

[wildJONESEYE]

next season Nigel bond will be ocupieng World no 23 his highest Ranking since 2001/2002 season where he also was No 23.....between then and now he was out of the top 32 for 2 seasons...........not bad for a 42 year old to be after 6 years climing the rankings again.......

and Mark Allen is relying on Liang Wenbo to beat his fellow Northern Ireland Player Joe Swail and Joe Perry to beat Bingham not to mention Mark Williams not to Reach the Semi Final to push his way in to the top 16 for the first time.....

[The Boss]

Bond eyes Moore record

next season Nigel bond will be ocupieng World no 23 his highest Ranking since 2001/2002 season where he also was No 23.....between then and now he was out of the top 32 for 2 seasons...........not bad for a 42 year old to be after 6 years climing the rankings again.......

Well Roger Moore did outstay him welcome. Will Bond retire aged 58 like Moore did with his final Bond film?

[chasmmi]

Table updatd on first page. It's down to Maguire and Ronnie at the top and King, Allen, Swail and Bingham at the bottom.

[Semih_Sayginer]

does anyone know (and have them handy to post) the points awarded for each round after last 16 at the WC?

if so please post or link them

oh, and thank you chas for the updates

[ronnieisthebest]

Does anyone know is bingham in top 16 now or out??

[Semih_Sayginer]

Does anyone know is bingham in top 16 now or out??

fairly certain he is out

[missneworleans]

Perry is anyway there!

[crucible77]

does anyone know (and have them handy to post) the points awarded for each round after last 16 at the WC?

if so please post or link them

oh, and thank you chas for the updates

Last 16=3800
Last 8=5000
Semis=6400
Runner up=8000
Winner=10000

Not sure if Stuart is in the top 16