Stellan Bengtsson

Where the 1577.7 rating comes from

From 10 matches played between 1 January 1971 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.

10 matches, from the most recent to the first

beat Shi Zhihao 3–1
01/01/81 · World Table Tennis Championships 1981 · Quarterfinals · detail
+19.91557.8 → 1577.7
beat Huang Liang 3–2
01/01/81 · World Table Tennis Championships 1981 · Round of 16 · detail
+21.01536.8 → 1557.8
beaten by Cai Zhenhua 2–3
01/01/81 · World Table Tennis Championships 1981 · Semifinals · detail
−26.11562.9 → 1536.8
beat Wilfried Lieck 3–2
01/01/77 · World Table Tennis Championships 1977 · Round of 16 · detail
+19.41543.5 → 1562.9
beaten by Mitsuru Kono 2–3
01/01/77 · World Table Tennis Championships 1977 · Quarterfinals · detail
−24.81568.3 → 1543.5
beaten by Mitsuru Kono 2–3
01/01/75 · World Table Tennis Championships 1975 · Round of 16 · detail
−32.11600.4 → 1568.3
beat Shigeo Itoh 3–1
01/01/71 · World Table Tennis Championships 1971 · Final · detail
+29.01571.4 → 1600.4
01/01/71 · World Table Tennis Championships 1971 · Round of 16 · detail
+25.11546.3 → 1571.4
beat Kuynz 3–0
01/01/71 · World Table Tennis Championships 1971 · Quarterfinals · detail
+22.31524.0 → 1546.3
beat En-ting 3–0
01/01/71 · World Table Tennis Championships 1971 · Semifinals · 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.