Friday, October 23, 2009

USCL Ratings and Power Rankings: Week 8 (2009)

New Jersey, after the sweep of Boston, moves back into first place in the Power Rankings. Note the almost indistinguishable differences between San Francisco and Boston, and then, Philadelphia and Baltimore.

USCL 2009 Power Rankings After Week 8

1 - New Jersey 1.000
2 - Seattle 0.984
3 - Arizona 0.870
4 - San Francisco 0.868
5 - Boston 0.868
6 - New York 0.821
7 - Miami 0.807
8 - Dallas 0.727
9 - Philadelphia 0.684
10 - Baltimore 0.684
11 - Chicago 0.673
12 - Tennessee 0.647
13 - Queens 0.635
14 - Carolina 0.597




Nakamura, unsurprisingly, remains on top. Gulko creeps up to second over Erenburg.

USCL 2009 Player Ratings After Week 8

Rank Rating Name
1 2647 Hikaru Nakamura
2 2615 Boris Gulko
3 2603 Sergey Erenburg
4 2595 Gregory Serper
5 2589 Patrick Wolff
6 2574 Marko Zivanic
7 2574 Larry Christiansen
8 2572 Jaan Ehlvest
9 2571 Alejandro Ramirez
10 2561 Joel Benjamin
11 2557 Eugene Perelshteyn
12 2554 Julio Becerra
13 2551 Dean Ippolito
14 2543 Alex Lenderman
15 2543 Alex Stripunsky
16 2537 Jacek Stopa
17 2535 Josh Friedel
18 2531 Pascal Charbonneau
19 2517 Yuri Lapshun
20 2513 Giorgi Kacheishvili
21 2510 Daniel Ludwig
22 2507 Jan van de Mortel
23 2507 Eli Vovsha
24 2502 Rogelio Barcenilla
25 2501 Leonid Kritz
26 2501 Slava Mikhailuk
27 2498 Marc Esserman
28 2492 Bruci Lopez
29 2490 Levon Altounian
30 2488 Vinay Bhat
31 2488 John Fedorowicz
32 2474 Sam Shankland
33 2463 Dmitry Schneider
34 2463 John Bartholomew
35 2461 Blas Lugo
36 2458 Irina Krush
37 2455 John Donaldson
38 2450 Lev Milman
39 2450 Thomas Bartell
40 2448 Salvijus Bercys
41 2446 Angelo Young
42 2445 Alex Shabalov
43 2444 Bryan Smith
44 2438 Denis Shmelov
45 2434 David Pruess
46 2434 Jesse Kraai
47 2433 Jorge Sammour-Hasbun
48 2433 Larry Kaufman
49 2430 Marcel Martinez
50 2426 Mackenzie Molner
51 2425 Tegshsuren Enkhbat
52 2423 Jonathan Schroer
53 2423 Oleg Zaikov
54 2421 Sergey Kudrin
55 2416 Victor Shen
56 2413 Eric Rodriguez
57 2412 Gregory Braylovsky
58 2408 Mark Ginsburg
59 2408 Andrei Zaremba
60 2391 Jay Bonin
61 2386 Nikola Mitkov
62 2384 Shinsaku Uesugi
63 2383 Florin Felecan
64 2380 Keaton Kiewra
65 2374 Vadim Martirosov
66 2374 Mehmed Pasalic
67 2374 Yaacov Norowitz
68 2370 Robby Adamson
69 2362 Ron Burnett
70 2360 John Bick
71 2358 Marcel Milat
72 2354 Gregory Young
73 2354 Ralph Zimmer
74 2349 Aviv Friedman
75 2348 John Readey
76 2346 Danny Rensch
77 2344 David Adelberg
78 2341 Michael Lee
79 2339 Richard Costigan
80 2336 Daniel Naroditsky
81 2335 Yian Liou
82 2329 Ron Simpson
83 2327 Ilya Krasik
84 2323 Matthew Herman
85 2323 Peter Bereolos
86 2320 Evan Rosenberg
87 2319 Josh Sinanan
88 2315 Eric Tangborn
89 2312 Udayan Bapat
90 2306 Todd Andrews
91 2306 Anna Matlin
92 2296 Jon Burgess
93 2294 Ray Kaufman
94 2288 Craig Jones
95 2285 Bayaraa Zorigt
96 2285 Andrew Ng
97 2283 Eric Rosen
98 2281 Jennifer Shahade
99 2272 Katerina Rohonyan
100 2260 Andrew Wang
101 2256 Tsagaan Battsetseg
102 2244 Alejandro Moreno Roman
103 2235 Daniel Fernandez
104 2232 Kavinayan Sivakumar
105 2222 Gerald Larson
106 2217 Leo Martinez
107 2217 David Justice
108 2213 Trevor Magness
109 2209 Miguel Recio
110 2209 Nelson Lopez
111 2207 Elizabeth Vicary
112 2196 Ian Harris
113 2189 Jared Defibaugh
114 2184 Benjamin Katz
115 2159 Shaun Smith

4 comments:

Mark Ginsburg said...

I beat a 2501 and drew a 2433 and languish at 2408?

Surely you are not carrying over the 2008 ratings? :)

Bionic Lime said...

At the end of 2008, you were 2370. Standard deviation was 75.

First, you beat Mikhailuk (2488) with Black. That's an effective rating difference of -190 (2370 - 2448 = 118 - 72 bonus for having Black). As a result, you went up to 2442.

Thenm, you drew Kaufman (2398) with White. That's an effective rating difference of +116 (2442 - 2398 = 44 + 72 penalty to having White). Also, since Arizona lost that match, the draw is counted as 0.33 insteas of the usual 0.50. As a result of all this, you went down to 2408.

Should you like to look at the spreadsheet, please let me know.

Mark Ginsburg said...

Did you invent the sadistic set of penalties all by your lonesome?

Bionic Lime said...

Arithmetic invented them.

After analyzing (statistically) all USCL games, it came out that White offered a 72 point rating advantage when it came to expected score.

Then, the 1/3 score if you draw when your team loses, and 2/3 score if you draw when your team wins, came from the logic of team play, when match points are all that matters.

The rating system is based on Glicko. And, I passed the variations by Mark Glickman, chair of the USCF Ratings Committee.