Stephen Cafiero

Where the 1528.9 rating comes from

From 3 matches played between 1 January 1955 and 1 January 1955, 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 Tanaka 0–3
01/01/55 · World Table Tennis Championships 1955 · Semifinals · detail
−27.91556.8 1528.9
01/01/55 · World Table Tennis Championships 1955 · Round of 16 · detail
+26.31530.5 1556.8
beat Johnny Leach 3–1
01/01/55 · World Table Tennis Championships 1955 · Quarterfinals · detail
+30.51500.0 1530.5

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.