Marty Reisman

Where the 1516.3 rating comes from

From 4 matches played between 1 January 1949 and 1 January 1951, 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.

4 matches, from the most recent to the first

beaten by Johnny Leach 0–3
01/01/51 · World Table Tennis Championships 1951 · Round of 16 · detail
−20.11536.4 1516.3
beat Max Marinko 1–0
01/01/49 · World Table Tennis Championships 1949 · Round of 16 · detail
+26.71509.7 1536.4
beat Ivan Andreadis 3–0
01/01/49 · World Table Tennis Championships 1949 · Quarterfinals · detail
+26.51483.2 1509.7
beaten by Bohumil Váňa 0–3
01/01/49 · World Table Tennis Championships 1949 · Semifinals · detail
−16.81500.0 1483.2

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.