Robert Thum

Where the 1479.2 rating comes from

From 3 matches played between 1 January 1929 and 1 January 1930, 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.

3 matches, from the most recent to the first

beaten by Bedřich Nikodém 1–3
01/01/30 · World Table Tennis Championships 1930 · Round of 16 · detail
−26.01505.2 → 1479.2
beaten by Zoltán Mechlovits 0–3
01/01/29 · World Table Tennis Championships 1929 · Quarterfinals · detail
−18.81524.0 → 1505.2
beat Charlie Bull 3–0
01/01/29 · World Table Tennis Championships 1929 · Round of 16 · detail
+24.01500.0 → 1524.0

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.