Where the 1477.8 rating comes from
From 3 matches played between 1 January 1979 and 1 January 1981, 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 Stellan Bengtsson 1–3
01/01/81 · World Table Tennis Championships 1981 · Quarterfinals · detail
−19.91497.6 → 1477.8
beat Desmond Douglas 3–0
01/01/81 · World Table Tennis Championships 1981 · Round of 16 · detail
+24.21473.5 → 1497.6
beaten by Gábor Gergely 2–3
01/01/79 · World Table Tennis Championships 1979 · Round of 16 · detail
−26.51500.0 → 1473.5
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.