1983–84 snooker world rankings

none June 2023 thumb|alt=Steve Davis playing snooker|Steve Davis (pictured in 2014) topped the ranking list for the first time. 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, for each tournament the defending champion was seeded first, and the previous year's runner-up second.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 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 A ranking list for the 1983–84 snooker season was issued by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) following the 1983 World Snooker Championship. Players' performances in the previous three World Snooker Championships (1981, 1982 and 1983) contributed to their points total. For 1981 and 1982, the World Champion gained five points, the runner-up received four, losing semi-finalists got three, losing quarter-finalists got two, and losers in the last-16 round received a single point, while for 1983 the points were double this. For the first time, tournaments other than world championship were taken into account, with the 1982 International Open and 1982 Professional Players Tournament both at the same points tariff as the 1981 and 1982 World Championships.New W.P.B.S.A. rankings Snooker Scene Everton's News Agency Birmingham June 1983 28 Players with no ranking points were ranked on the basis of their performance in the 1983 World Championship. A revised ranking list was issued following a vote by the WPBSA board to amend the rules so that players without any ranking points, which were those ranked lower than 28th, would receive one "merit" point if they had reached the last-32 of the World Championships in scope and half a merit point if they had reached the last 32 of the 1982 International Open or the second round of the 1982 Professional Players Tournament.Qualifying for qualifying Snooker Scene Everton's News Agency Birmingham July 1983 19 Steve Davis was the top-ranked player for the first time, displacing Ray Reardon who moved to second place.Hayton Eric Dee John 2004 The CueSport Book of Professional Snooker: The Complete Record & History Rose Villa Publications Lowestoft 978-0-9548549-0-4 119–123 Cliff Thorburn retained third place from the previous year, and Tony Knowles rose from fifteenth up to fourth. Perrie Mans and Willie Thorne both dropped out of the top sixteen, which meant they would need to enter the qualifying rounds of the 1984 World Snooker Championship rather than be seeded into the main event. Tony Meo and John Virgo moved into the top 16. In her book Cruel Game: The Inside Story of Snooker, published in April 1983, Jean Rafferty wrote that "The world rankings are calculated with such little regard for the synchronisation of achievement and reward that they must be seen as creative rather than informative."Rafferty Jean The Cruel Game 2021 Elm Tree Books London 1983 Kindle 1391400914 31 Rankings The rankings including players with merit points (which are indicated with a Merit points symbol) are shown below.147–149 In the original list there were 32 players; Mike Hallett was 29th, followed by Eugene Hughes, Les Dodd and John Campbell. Ranking Name 1981 1982 1982–83 season Total WC WC IO PPT WC1Steve Davis ENG 5 0 2 – 10 172Ray Reardon WAL 3 4 1 5 2 153Cliff Thorburn CAN 3 0 1 1 8 134Tony Knowles ENG 0 2 5 0 6 135Alex Higgins NIR 1Two points were deducted for misconduct.New world rankings Snooker Scene June 1982 Everton's News Agency Birmingham 29Higgins in trouble Birmingham Evening Mail https://www.newspapers.com/article/birmingham-evening-mail-higgins-in-troub/133530225/ 17 April 1981 30 Newspapers.com 28 January 2024 20 October 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20231020213232/https://www.newspapers.com/article/birmingham-evening-mail-higgins-in-troub/133530225/ live 5 1 0 6 116Eddie Charlton AUS 1 3 0 3 4 117Kirk Stevens CAN 1 2 3 0 4 108Bill Werbeniuk CAN 2 1 1 2 4 109Terry Griffiths WAL 2 0 2 2 2 810David Taylor ENG 2 0 4 0 2 811Jimmy White ENG 0 3 1 4 0 812Doug Mountjoy WAL 4 1 0 0 2 713Dennis Taylor NIR 2 0 2 1 2 714John Virgo ENG 0 1 3 3 0 715Tony Meo ENG 1 0 0 1 4 616John Spencer ENG 1 1 1 1 2 617Perrie Mans RSA 1928 1 1 1 0 2 518Willie Thorne ENG 0 2 0 0 2 419Dean Reynolds ENG – 1 1 2 0 420Cliff Wilson WAL 0 0 2 1 0 321Silvino Francisco RSA 1928 – 2 – – 0 222Graham Miles ENG 1 1 0 0 0 223Joe Johnson ENG 0 0 0 2 0 224Mark Wildman ENG 0 0 0 1 0 125Patsy Fagan IRL 0 1 0 0 0 126Eddie Sinclair SCO 0 0 0 1 0 127Murdo MacLeod SCO – 0 0 1 0 128Fred Davis ENG 1 0 0 0 0 129Dave Martin ENG 1Merit points 1Merit points 0 0.5Merit points 1Merit points 3.5Merit points30Rex Williams ENG 0 1Merit points 0.5Merit points 0.5Merit points 1Merit points 3Merit points31Jim Meadowcroft ENG 0 1Merit points 0.5Merit points 0.5Merit points 1Merit points 3Merit points32Mike Hallett ENG 0 1Merit points 0 0.5Merit points 1Merit points 2.5Merit points33John Dunning ENG 1Merit points 1Merit points 0 0 0 2Merit points34Ray Edmonds ENG 1Merit points 0 0.5Merit points 0 0 1.5Merit points35Eugene Hughes IRE 0 0 0.5Merit points 0 1Merit points 1.5Merit points36Les Dodd ENG 0 0 0.5Merit points 0 1Merit points 1.5Merit points37Mick Fisher ENG 0 0 0.5Merit points 0 1Merit points 1.5Merit points38Jack Fitzmaurice ENG 0 1Merit points 0.5Merit points 0 0 1.5Merit points39John Campbell AUS 0 0 0 0 1Merit points 1Merit points40Ian Black SCO 0 0 0 0 1Merit points 1Merit points41Jim Donnelly SCO 0 1Merit points 0 0 0 1Merit points42Mike Watterson ENG 0 0 0.5Merit points 0.5Merit points 0 1Merit points43Jim Wych CAN 0 0 0.5Merit points 0.5Merit points 0 1Merit points44Billy Kelly IRE 0 0 0.5Merit points 0 0 0.5Merit points45Frank Jonik CAN 0 0 0 0.5Merit points 0 0.5Merit points46Colin Roscoe WAL 0 0 0.5Merit points 0 0 0.5Merit points47Clive Everton WAL 0 0 0 0.5Merit points 0 0.5Merit points48Jackie Rea NIR 0 0 0 0.5Merit points 0 0.5Merit points49George Scott ENG 0 0 0.5Merit points 0 0 0.5Merit points 1982/1983 1984/1985 1983/1984 Notes References 1983 Rankings 1984 Rankings 1983