Pseudo-Rankings HQ Ratings for 2010 US LOTR SBG

Some of you are aware of Rankings HQ, a global rankings system for games such as Warhammer Fantasy, 40K, Warmachine and Flames of War.  LOTR is not included since there is not a large enough following.  But what if we were?

The Rankings HQ's methdology is explained on their website and while they do not provide their points algorithm, they have a calculator built into the website that allows you to generate your own results.  As a result, it is possible to replicate their rankings system for any game system, and I have done just that.  A few notes.  First, Rankings HQ uses the player's best 3 results over the past year.  I have calculated that primary ranking but I have also calculated rankings based on the top 2 rankings as well because they gives a lot more people a chance to be highly rated since a lot of people made 2 events but not 3.  I have included data from every LOTR SBG GT level event (all events on the GW tournament circuit or major GTs such as MITM and BBB) except the Adepticon Team Tournament and Bolter Beach.  Rankings HQ doesn't use team events as far as I can tell and I also dont have all the player names for Adepticon.  There is no published data for Bolter Beach other than the top 3 placements so I cannot calculate any information about it.   Also, rankings HQ requires an event to have a minimum of 10 players.  Although Grand Waaagh did not, I calculated results as if it did.  Finally, this list only includes players who attended 2 or more ranked events; keep in mind that some players who finished high at one event such as Tom Keegan, Eric Adams or Wyn Robertson would place in the 14-16 range had I included them.

2010 US LOTR SBG rankings:


 

Key - Top 3 means top 3 scores; top 2 means top two scores; # events means total events attended

 

One important note about the results.  The Rankings HQ methodology reduces total points scored for an event by 20% for each round less than 5 the event contains.  Thus players who played at the Adepticon singles (4 rounds) score lower that they would have otherwise had it been a 5 round event.  If the data had been normalized for that, players such as Keith, Julian, Chris B, Tim K and the Reskes would have higher scores.