1977–78 snooker world rankings

World rankings for the 1977–78 snooker season The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, the governing body for professional snooker, first published official world rankings for players on the main tour for the 1976–77 season. Before this, the defending champion was seeded first, and the previous year's runner-up second, for each tournament.Official rankings Snooker Scene August 1976 10Turner Chris Historical World Rankings 1975/76 to 1989/90 http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/HistoricRank1.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120608214119/http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/HistoricRank1.html 8 June 2012 cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk Chris Turner's Snooker Archive 26 February 2011Turner Chris World Rankings – History and Development http://www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk/files/History/history_rankings.htm Global Snooker Centre 24 June 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20040803184513/http://www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk/files/History/history_rankings.htm September 2000 3 August 2004 For the 1977–78 season, players' performances in the previous three World Snooker Championships (1975, 1976, and 1977) contributed to their points total. For each of the three years, the World Champion was awarded five points, the runner-up received four, losing semi-finalists got three, players eliminated in the quarter-finals gained two, and losers in the last-16 round received a single point.New professional rankings Snooker Scene Everton's News Agency July 1977 17 If players were level on points, then those gained in the most recent event determined positioning. If this was still equal, then the losing margin on frame frames was taken into account. Ray Reardon retained top place in the rankings from the 1976/1977 listing, with 12 points. John Spencer, the 1977 World Champion, was second, six places higher than in the previous season's list, on 9 points. Doug Mountjoy, at 14th, was the highest-ranked one-season professional.Morrison Ian 1989 Snooker: records, facts and champions Guinness Superlatives Ltd Enfield 978-0-85112-364-6 121 The eight highest-ranked players were placed directly into the last-16 round of the 1978 World Snooker Championship, whilst all other entrants were required to participate in a qualifying competition to produce the eight players to play the exempted seeds. As defending champion, Spencer was seeded first for the 1978 tournament, with the other seeds based on the rankings.Correction Snooker Scene Everton's News Agency August 1977 21 Rankings No. 1: Ray Reardon Ray Reardon holiday camp 1.jpg Ray Reardon, circa 1983 Ray Reardon, standing 1932 10 8 y 2024 7 20 1932 10 8 y 1967–1992 1 No. 2: John Spencer September 18, 1935 2006 7 11 1935 9 18 1968–1991 2 No. 3: Eddie Charlton October 31, 1929 2004 11 7 1929 10 31 1963–1995 3 The professional world rankings for the snooker players on the main tour in the 1977–78 season are listed below. Points gained in each of the three World Snooker Championships are shown, with the total number of points given in the last column. A "–" symbol indicates that the player did not participate in that year's championship. Some sources show Mans as placed 9th and Davis 10th, and Thorne 18th with Virgo 20th.Hayton Eric The CueSport Book of Professional Snooker 2004 Rose Villa Publications Lowestoft 0-9548549-0-X 119–123Kobylecky John 2019 The Complete International Directory of Snooker Players – 1927 to 2018 Kobyhadrian Books 978-0-9931433-1-1 46, 149 It is unclear why three players with 0 points were included in the rankings. + Snooker world rankings 1977/1978Ranking NameCountry 1975 1976 1977Total Points 1 Ray Reardon 5 5 2 12 2 John Spencer snooker player 2 2 5 9 3 Eddie Charlton 4 3 2 9 4 Dennis Taylor 3 2 3 8 5 Alex Higgins 3 4 1 8 6 Cliff Thorburn 2 1 4 7 7 John Pulman 1 1 3 5 8 Graham Miles 1 1 2 4 9 Fred Davis snooker player 1 2 1 4 10 Perrie Mans1928 0 3 1 4 11 Rex Williams 2 1 1 4 12 David Taylor snooker player 1 1 1 3 13 Gary Owen snooker player 2 1 – 3 14 Doug Mountjoy – – 2 2 15 Jim Meadowcroft 0 2 0 2 16 John Dunning snooker player 1 1 0 2 17 Bill Werbeniuk 1 1 – 2 18 John Virgo – – 1 1 19 Patsy Fagan – – 1 1 20 Willie Thorne – 0 1 1 21 Ian Anderson snooker player 1 0 – 1 22 Warren Simpson 1 0 – 1 23 Marcus Owen 0 0 – 0 24 Bernard Bennett 0 0 0 0 25 Paddy Morgan 0 0 – 0 1976/1977 1978/1979 1977/1978 References 1977 Rankings 1978 Rankings 1977