Where the 1540.5 rating comes from
From 10 matches played between 1 January 1983 and 1 January 1989, and from them alone. Every line below was written at computation time: nothing is recomputed to show this page.
How to read this
On the right: the change this match produced, then the value before → after. A line's arrival value is the next line's starting value, down to the starting rating given to every newcomer. A ±0.0 is a counted match that did not move the rating, a walkover for instance.
10 matches, from the most recent to the first
beaten by Jan-Ove Waldner 0–3
01/01/89 · World Table Tennis Championships 1989 · Round of 16 · detail
−17.51558.0 → 1540.5
beat Ulf "Tickan" Carlsson 3–0
01/01/83 · World Table Tennis Championships 1983 · Round of 16 · detail
+25.41479.9 → 1505.3
beaten by Cai Zhenhua 0–4
01/01/83 · World Table Tennis Championships 1983 · Quarterfinals · detail
−20.11500.0 → 1479.9
Only the matches the source publishes appear; what is missing is listed. The source gives the day, not the hour: two matches on the same day are ordered by a reproducible rule, which is not necessarily the real order.