USCL Power Rankings Week 3

United States Chess League, Power rankings. Week 3... Not much surprise this week, as the power rankings exactly match the standings.

Power is pretty evenly spaced in the Eastern Division, except at the top, where Manhattan barely trails Boston.

Chicago sits atop the Western Division, followed by San Francisco and Dallas, with a tightly spaced pack from fourth to seventh.

Eastern Division

Rank	Team	Score	Change
1 -	Boston	1.000	+1
2 -	Manhattan	0.973	+2.5
3 -	New York	0.889	-2
4 -	Carolina	0.827	-2
5 -	Philadelphia	0.782	+1
6 -	Baltimore	0.728	-1.5
7 -	New England	0.667	0
8 -	New Jersey	0.524	0

Western Division

Rank	Team	Score	Change
1 -	Chicago	1.000	0
2 -	San Francisco	0.904	+0.5
3 -	Dallas	0.836	+1
4 -	Los Angeles	0.712	-1.5
5 -	Arizona	0.671	+1
6 -	Miami	0.658	+2
7 -	Seattle	0.630	-2
8 -	St. Louis	0.507	-1

Until next week!

USCL 2010 Power Rankings Week 3

Power rankings for this week reflect pretty closely the standings for each division. That's not too surprising...

What to notice, however, is the closeness of some of the teams in the rankings.

In the east, New York, Baltimore, and Boston are about equidistant from each other, while New Jersey and Philadelphia are close to one another.

In the west, Chicago is only a hair behind Arizona, despite being a 1/2 point behind in the match standings.

	Eastern Division
1 -	New England	1.000
2 -	New York	0.922
3 -	Baltimore	0.883
4 -	Boston	0.835
5 -	New Jersey	0.739
6 -	Philadelphia	0.720
7 -	Manhattan	0.618
8 -	Carolina	0.522
	Western Division
1 -	Arizona	1.000
2 -	Chicago	0.990
3 -	San Francisco	0.902
4 -	St. Louis	0.761
5 -	Seattle	0.747
6 -	Los Angeles	0.685
7 -	Dallas	0.660
8 -	Miami	0.556

Soon, there will be the return of the USCL rating list, with an updated algorithm to calculate more precise ratings!

USCL Ratings and Power Rankings: Week 3 (2009)

UPDATE. I forgot to increase the current week counter on the spreadsheet, and thus what I posted was wrong. Mea culpa. Thank you for HA81 for the constructive criticism which made me go back to look at this.

Here is the correct list.

USCL 2009 Week 3 Power Rankings (CORRECTED)

1 -	San Francisco	1.000
2 -	Seattle	0.931
3 -	New Jersey	0.922
4 -	Miami	0.883
5 -	New York	0.843
6 -	Dallas	0.813
7 -	Arizona	0.801
8 -	Tennessee	0.737
9 -	Philadelphia	0.718
10 -	Chicago	0.699
11 -	Boston	0.691
12 -	Queens	0.562
13 -	Carolina	0.543
14 -	Baltimore	0.527

I had been asked by United States Chess League Commissioner, Greg Shahade, to also publish power rankings for the 14 USCL teams. Note that these Power Rankings are entirely based on mathematical formulas; there is no subjectivity at all. They are calculated using the same formula that used previously on this website. Top team always get a 1.000, the remainder of the teams get numbers less than that.

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Below are the unofficial player ratings for the United States Chess League for 2009, post-week 3.

USCL 2009 Week 3 Player Ratings

Rank	Rating	Name
1	2641	Jaan Ehlvest
2	2632	Hikaru Nakamura
3	2631	Julio Becerra
4	2604	Sergey Erenburg
5	2588	Larry Christiansen
6	2584	Joel Benjamin
7	2576	Dean Ippolito
8	2574	Marko Zivanic
9	2571	Jacek Stopa
10	2566	Pascal Charbonneau
11	2554	Gregory Serper
12	2546	Alex Shabalov
13	2542	Josh Friedel
14	2539	Eugene Perelshteyn
15	2533	Alejandro Ramirez
16	2529	Alex Lenderman
17	2529	Giorgi Kacheishvili
18	2525	Boris Gulko
19	2515	Dmitry Schneider
20	2506	Sam Shankland
21	2505	Bruci Lopez
22	2505	Thomas Bartell
23	2501	Levon Altounian
24	2500	Marc Esserman
25	2500	Eli Vovsha
26	2492	Rogelio Barcenilla
27	2486	Daniel Ludwig
28	2478	Alex Stripunsky
29	2464	Sergey Kudrin
30	2448	Mehmed Pasalic
31	2444	Jan van de Mortel
32	2442	Mark Ginsburg
33	2441	Denis Shmelov
34	2439	Jorge Sammour-Hasbun
35	2434	David Pruess
36	2430	Florin Felecan
37	2424	Robby Adamson
38	2424	John Bartholomew
39	2423	Tegshsuren Enkhbat
40	2415	Slava Mikhailuk
41	2414	Ron Burnett
42	2411	Jonathan Schroer
43	2407	Nikola Mitkov
44	2405	John Donaldson
45	2401	Angelo Young
46	2398	Larry Kaufman
47	2391	Jay Bonin
48	2388	Oleg Zaikov
49	2388	Keaton Kiewra
50	2380	Ron Simpson
51	2377	Eric Rodriguez
52	2375	Andrei Zaremba
53	2360	Bryan Smith
54	2355	Blas Lugo
55	2354	Victor Shen
56	2352	Michael Lee
57	2351	Peter Bereolos
58	2349	Aviv Friedman
59	2347	Matthew Herman
60	2332	Vadim Martirosov
61	2323	Yian Liou
62	2315	Eric Tangborn
63	2311	Ilya Krasik
64	2306	Todd Andrews
65	2296	Jon Burgess
66	2295	John Bick
67	2281	Craig Jones
68	2261	Nelson Lopez
69	2256	Tsagaan Battsetseg
70	2250	Danny Rensch
71	2241	Leo Martinez
72	2216	Josh Sinanan
73	2207	Elizabeth Vicary