1978–79 snooker world rankings

none September 2022 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 Everton's News Agency Birmingham 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 1978–79 season, players' performances in the previous three World Snooker Championships (1976, 1977, and 1978) 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.Official world rankings Snooker Scene Everton's News Agency Birmingham June 1978 28 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 1977/1978 listing, with 12 points. Perrie Mans, the 1978 World Championship runner-up, was second, eight places higher than in the previous season's list, on 8 points.Morrison Ian 1989 Snooker: Records, Facts and Champions Guinness Superlatives Ltd Enfield 978-0-85112-364-6 121 Eddie Charlton, who retained third place from the previous year's rankings, and John Spencer, who dropped from second to fourth, also had 8 points.New professional rankings Snooker Scene Everton's News Agency Birmingham July 1977 17Hayton Eric The CueSport Book of Professional Snooker 2004 Rose Villa Publications Lowestoft 0-9548549-0-X 119–123 The eight highest-ranked players were placed directly into the last-16 round of the 1979 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. Rankings The professional world rankings for the snooker players in the 1978–79 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.It is unclear why five players with 0 points were included in the rankings. +Snooker world rankings 1978/1979 Ranking Name 1976 1977 1978 Total 1 Ray Reardon WAL 5 2 5 12 2 Perrie Mans RSA 1928 3 1 4 8 3 Eddie Charlton AUS 3 2 3 84 John Spencer ENG 2 5 1 8 5 Cliff Thorburn CAN 1 4 2 7 6 Fred Davis ENG 2 1 3 6 7 Alex Higgins NIR 4 1 1 6 8 Dennis Taylor NIR 2 3 1 6 9 Graham Miles ENG 1 2 2 5 10 John Pulman ENG 1 3 1 5 11 Patsy Fagan IRL – 1 2 3 12 Bill Werbeniuk CAN 1 – 2 3 13 David Taylor ENG 1 1 1 3 14 Doug Mountjoy WAL – 2 1 3 15 Willie Thorne ENG 0 1 1 2 16 Jim Meadowcroft ENG 2 0 0 2 17 Rex Williams ENG 1 1 0 2 18 Pat Houlihan ENG – – 1 1 19 John Virgo ENG – 1 0 120 John Dunning ENG 1 0 0 1 21 Gary Owen WAL 1 – – 1 22 Warren Simpson AUS 0 – – 0 23 Ian Anderson AUS 0 – – 024 Marcus Owen WAL 0 – – 0 25 Bernard Bennett ENG 0 0 0 026 Paddy Morgan AUS 0 – 0 0 1977/1978 1979/1980 1978/1979 Notes References 1978 Rankings 1979 Rankings 1978