Where the 1500.2 rating comes from
From 5 matches played between 1 January 1953 and 1 January 1954, 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.
5 matches, from the most recent to the first
beaten by Richard Bergmann 1–3
01/01/54 · World Table Tennis Championships 1954 · Semifinals · detail
−12.51512.7 → 1500.2
beat René Roothooft 3–1
01/01/54 · World Table Tennis Championships 1954 · Quarterfinals · detail
+29.31483.5 → 1512.7
beat Ladislav Štípek 3–2
01/01/54 · World Table Tennis Championships 1954 · Round of 16 · detail
+25.51458.0 → 1483.5
beaten by Ichiro Ogimura 1–3
01/01/54 · World Table Tennis Championships 1954 · Final · detail
−17.11475.1 → 1458.0
beaten by Václav Tereba 0–3
01/01/53 · World Table Tennis Championships 1953 · Round of 16 · detail
−24.91500.0 → 1475.1
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.