1976–77 snooker world rankings

World rankings for the 1976–77 snooker season June 2023 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.Turner 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 2011World 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 3 August 2004 For the 1976–77 snooker season, players' performances in the previous three World Snooker Championships (1974, 1975, and 1976) contributed to their ranking 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. 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, having won the championship in each of the three years considered, was ranked first, with the maximum possible 15 points, followed by Alex Higgins, the 1976 runner-up, on nine points. The eight-highest ranked players were placed directly into the last-16 round of the 1977 World Snooker Championship,Reardon trying for fifth consecutive title The Times 26 January 1977 59917 11 whilst all other entrants were placed in a qualifying competition to produce the eight players to play the exempted seeds.New qualifying system Snooker Scene February 1977 Everton's News Agency 18 The same points system, based on results from 1973, 1974 and 1975, had been used to calculate the eight top seeds for the 1976 World Championship. Reardon had topped that list with 15 points, followed by Eddie Charlton on nine, and Higgins with eight.New seeding system for professional championship Snooker Scene August 1975 Everton's News Agency 6–7 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 Wales 1967–1991 1 No. 2: Alex Higgins Alexhiggins2008.jpg Alex Higgins in 2008 Alex Higgins sitting at a table reading a newspaper 1949 3 18 y 2010 7 24 1949 3 18 y Northern Ireland 1971–1997 2 No. 3: Eddie Charlton 31 October 1929 2004 11 8 1929 10 31 y Australia 1963–1995 3 The professional world rankings for the snooker players on the main tour in the 1976–77 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.Official rankings Snooker Scene August 1976 10Hayton Eric The CueSport Book of Professional Snooker 2004 Rose Villa Publications Lowestoft, Suffolk 0-9548549-0-X 119–123 + Snooker world rankings 1976/1977Ranking NameCountry197419751976Total Points 1 Ray Reardon 5 5 5 15 2Alex Higgins 2 3 4 9 3Eddie Charlton 1 4 3 8 4 Fred Davis snooker player 3 1 2 6 5 Graham Miles 4 1 1 6 6 Rex Williams 3 2 1 6 7 Perrie Mans1928 2 0 3 5 8John Spencer snooker player 1 2 2 5 9Dennis Taylor 0 3 2 5 10 Gary Owen snooker player 1 2 1 4 11 John Dunning snooker player 2 1 1 4 12 Jim Meadowcroft 1 0 2 3 13 Cliff Thorburn 0 2 1 3 14 Bill Werbeniuk 1 1 1 3 15John Pulman 1 1 1 3 16 David Taylor snooker player 0 1 1 2 17 Marcus Owen 2 – 0 2 18 Bernard Bennett 1 0 0 1 19 Ian Anderson snooker player 0 1 0 1 20 Warren Simpson 0 1 – 1 21 Paddy Morgan 1 0 – 1 — 1977/1978 1976/1977 References 1976 Rankings 1977 Rankings 1976