1978–79 snooker world rankings

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The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, the governing body for professional snooker, first published official world rankings for players on the main tour for the 1976–77 season. Before this, the defending champion was seeded first, and the previous year's runner-up second, for each tournament.[1][2][3] For the 1978–79 season, players' performances in the previous three World Snooker Championships (1976, 1977, and 1978) contributed to their points total. For each of the three years, the World Champion was awarded five points, the runner-up received four, losing semi-finalists got three, players eliminated in the quarter-finals gained two, and losers in the last-16 round received a single point.[3][4] If players were level on points, then those gained in the most recent event determined positioning. If this was still equal, then the losing margin on frames was taken into account.[1] Ray Reardon retained top place in the rankings from the 1977/1978 listing, with 12 points. Perrie Mans, the 1978 World Championship runner-up, was second, eight places higher than in the previous season's list, on 8 points.[5] Eddie Charlton, who retained third place from the previous year's rankings, and John Spencer, who dropped from second to fourth, also had 8 points.[4][6][7] The eight highest-ranked players were placed directly into the last-16 round of the 1979 World Snooker Championship, whilst all other entrants were required to participate in a qualifying competition to produce the eight players to play the exempted seeds.[4]

Rankings

The professional world rankings for the snooker players in the 1978–79 season are listed below. Points gained in each of the three World Snooker Championships are shown, with the total number of points given in the last column. A "–" symbol indicates that the player did not participate in that year's championship.[2][4][lower-alpha 1]

Snooker world rankings 1978/1979
Ranking Name 1976 1977 1978 Total
1 File:Flag of Wales (1959–present).svg Ray Reardon (WAL) 5 2 5 12
2 File:Flag of South Africa (1928–1982).svg Perrie Mans (RSA) 3 1 4 8
3 File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Eddie Charlton (AUS) 3 2 3 8
4 File:Flag of England.svg John Spencer (ENG) 2 5 1 8
5 File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Cliff Thorburn (CAN) 1 4 2 7
6 File:Flag of England.svg Fred Davis (ENG) 2 1 3 6
7 File:Ulster Banner.svg Alex Higgins (NIR) 4 1 1 6
8 File:Ulster Banner.svg Dennis Taylor (NIR) 2 3 1 6
9 File:Flag of England.svg Graham Miles (ENG) 1 2 2 5
10 File:Flag of England.svg John Pulman (ENG) 1 3 1 5
11 File:Flag of Ireland.svg Patsy Fagan (IRL) 1 2 3
12 File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Bill Werbeniuk (CAN) 1 2 3
13 File:Flag of England.svg David Taylor (ENG) 1 1 1 3
14 File:Flag of Wales (1959–present).svg Doug Mountjoy (WAL) 2 1 3
15 File:Flag of England.svg Willie Thorne (ENG) 0 1 1 2
16 File:Flag of England.svg Jim Meadowcroft (ENG) 2 0 0 2
17 File:Flag of England.svg Rex Williams (ENG) 1 1 0 2
18 File:Flag of England.svg Pat Houlihan (ENG) 1 1
19 File:Flag of England.svg John Virgo (ENG) 1 0 1
20 File:Flag of England.svg John Dunning (ENG) 1 0 0 1
21 File:Flag of Wales (1959–present).svg Gary Owen (WAL) 1 1
22 File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Warren Simpson (AUS) 0 0
23 File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Ian Anderson (AUS) 0 0
24 File:Flag of Wales (1959–present).svg Marcus Owen (WAL) 0 0
25 File:Flag of England.svg Bernard Bennett (ENG) 0 0 0 0
26 File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Paddy Morgan (AUS) 0 0 0
Preceded by
1977/1978
1978/1979 Succeeded by
1979/1980

Notes

  1. It is unclear why five players with 0 points were included in the rankings.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Official rankings". Snooker Scene. Birmingham: Everton's News Agency. August 1976. p. 10.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Turner, Chris. "Historical World Rankings 1975/76 to 1989/90". cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 8 June 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Turner, Chris (September 2000). "World Rankings – History and Development". Global Snooker Centre. Archived from the original on 3 August 2004. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Official world rankings". Snooker Scene. Birmingham: Everton's News Agency. June 1978. p. 28.
  5. Morrison, Ian (1989). Snooker: Records, Facts and Champions. Enfield: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-85112-364-6.
  6. "New professional rankings". Snooker Scene. Birmingham: Everton's News Agency. July 1977. p. 17.
  7. Hayton, Eric (2004). The CueSport Book of Professional Snooker. Lowestoft: Rose Villa Publications. pp. 119–123. ISBN 0-9548549-0-X.