1979–80 snooker world rankings

none The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), 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 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 1979/1980 ranking list, players' performances in the previous three World Snooker Championships (1977, 1978 and 1979) contributed to their points total. For each of the three years, 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.New qualifying system Snooker Scene June 1979 7 Ray Reardon retained top place in the rankings from the 1978/1979 listing, with 12 points. The day following the 1979 World Championship, on 29 April, the WPBSA voted that only two players would receive direct entry into the last 16 of the 1980 World Championship: the 1979 champion Terry Griffiths and runner-up Dennis Taylor.According to John Virgo, this was proposed by Derek Mienie and seconded by Taylor before being agreed by a vote of the professional players at a well-attended meeting.Virgo John John Virgo: Say Goodnight, JV - My Autobiography 12: Playing politics 2019 2nd 2017 John Blake London 978-1-78606-975-7 This resolution was poorly received by the BBC, who televised the championship, and by tournament sponsors Embassy; both organisations were concerned that star players could be eliminated before the televised stage.Everton Clive 2012 Black Farce and Cue Ball Wizards Mainstream Edinburgh 978-1-78057-568-1 80 The Professional Snooker Association (PSA), formed soon after the meeting, challenged the decision.Arnold Peter Snooker today 1987 London Hamlyn 978-0-600-55235-2 22 The PSA included many leading players, and had Reardon, John Spencer and snooker agent Del Simmonds as directors.Everton Clive Split can be avoided The Guardian 23 July 1979 16 P.S.A. – pressure group or takeover bid? Snooker Scene July 1979 3–5 According to Griffiths, both he and Taylor joined the PSA in "solidarity".Griffiths Terry Championship snooker 1981 103–104 London Queen Anne Press 978-0-362-00543-1 Within weeks, the next meeting of the WPBSA voted to revert to the previous system, where the top eight players in the rankings were exempted to the last 16 of the world championship, and the players ranked nine to 16 would each be exempted to the first round (last 24) where they would each face a player from the qualifying competition. At the meeting which backed reverting to the previous system for the world championship, the WPBSA also determined that the world champion would be the top seed for the UK Championship, with the defending UK champion as second seed.New professionals – winning doesn't count Snooker Scene July 1979 5 A subsequent WPBSA decision to seed all players for the 1979 UK Championship except the world champion based on the results from the 1977 and 1978 UK championships was reversed at the request of the tournament sponsors, Coral.Reardon not O.K. for U.K. Snooker Scene September 1979 9Everton Clive Testing for recruits The Guardian 12 September 1979 25 Rankings The professional world rankings for the snooker players in the 1979–80 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 seven players with 0 points were included in the rankings. +Snooker world rankings 1979/1980 Ranking Name 1977 1978 1979 Total 1 Ray Reardon WAL 2 5 2 9 2 Dennis Taylor NIR 3 1 4 8 3 Eddie Charlton AUS 2 3 3 8 4 John Spencer ENG 5 1 1 7 5 Cliff Thorburn CAN 4 2 1 7 6 Fred Davis ENG 1 3 2 6 7 Perrie Mans RSA 1928 1 4 1 6 8 Terry Griffiths WAL – – 5 5 9 Graham Miles ENG 2 2 1 5 10 John Virgo ENG 1 0 3 4 11 Alex Higgins NIR 1 1 2 4 12 Bill Werbeniuk CAN – 2 2 4 13 Doug Mountjoy WAL 2 1 1 4 14 John Pulman ENG 3 1 0 4 15 David Taylor ENG 1 1 1 3 16 Patsy Fagan IRL 1 2 0 3 17 Willie Thorne ENG 1 1 0 2 18 Steve Davis ENG – – 1 1 19 Kirk Stevens CAN – – 1 1 20 Pat Houlihan ENG – 1 0 1 21 Rex Williams ENG 1 0 0 1 22 Jim Meadowcroft ENG 0 0 0 0 23 John Dunning ENG 0 0 0 0 24Warren Simpson AUS – – – 0 25 Ian Anderson AUS – – 0 0 26 Marcus Owen WAL – – – 0 27 Bernard Bennett ENG 0 0 0 0 28 Paddy Morgan AUS – 0 – 0 left 1978/1979 1980/1981 1979/1980 Notes References 1979 Rankings 1980 Rankings 1979