Based on the same system that I posted for the Pro Player of the Year 2004-2005, this is what the top 50 in the standings look like for Pro Player of the Year 2005-2006, with all PC's and 10K's accounted for up through PC & 10K Atlanta 2006.

255 Dalton, Michael
215 Jacob, Michael
215 Muller, Andre
211 Wijaya, Vidianto
208 Kolb, Markus
207 Reeves, Neil
199 Horn, Karl
193 Rowland, Niles
190 Edwards, Craig
182 Witanen, Joshua

179 Spears, David
178 Cabanero, Eric
169 Brown, Alex
164 Postlethwait, William
161 Tice, Doug
157 Little, Nick
142 Khare, Anand
139 Dawson, Jason
139 Hoh, Hans Joachim
136 Leader, David

139 Ashton, Tommy
127 Blech, Reinhard
126 Oldaker, Matt
126 Tatar, Matthew
123 Bragg, Tillman
123 Kockott, Kristian
120 Dougherty, Rob
120 Nguyen, Quang
119 Lao, Bulk
118 Figueroa, Milton

117 Pan, Phimus
113 Walls, Gabe
107 Ibamoto, Masami
105 Rodriguez, Colin
103 Jones, Ryan
94 Sohnle, Dean
94 Wiggins, Shane
91 Bouchard, Maximilien
91 Tennet, Alex
90 Cuenca, Nicolas

89 Prosak, Adam
88 Noland, Donald
88 Shvartsman, Alex
87 Nolen, Loren
86 Hager, Jason
85 Justice, Anthony
84 Boccio, Matt
84 Yapjoco, Patrick
83 Corney, Andrew
83 Lockhard, Ryan

Points are awarded at a PC by giving 75 points to 1st place and scaling down by 1 point for each place till 1 point for 75th and then top 8 gets bonus points, 25 for 1st, 20 for 2nd, 15 for 3rd-4th, and 10 for 5th-8th. Points for a 10k are a little more modified but are similar as top 8 gets 1st - 25, 2nd - 23, 3rd - 21, 4th - 20, 5th - 18, 6th - 17, 7th - 16, 8th - 15.

Shouldn't the 2005-2006 "season" start with PC Indy 05 and end the day before PC Indy 06?


Anyways, great job with the list.

It proves to me that I need to do a LOT of work if I want to make this list.

Is Ryan Jones on the list? If not why not?

Cheer-

he hasnt done anything in the , what is it, four events that qualify for this.

top eighting the san deigo 10k does not garner enough points. im sure this will change come PCLA.

I agree I would think the current season would end the day before PC Indy and start the day after. Either that or it should run yearly.

Ah heck what do I care I at least made the list :D

Donnie Noland

I assume this includes all the events starting at 10k philly (the first event after PCNY). This is much better than starting at PC Indy, else you wouldn't have much of a season finale, basically some random 10k before indy. Ending things with the last PC of the year brings the year to a close.

I have an issue with the ratings system. I have a pair of 10k wins, worth 50 points, and a 25th at a PC is worth 50 points as well. Winning two 10ks = 25th at the pc?

hell, my mediocre finish at the PC (58th - 18 points) is worth almost as much as a 10k win.

Considering that so many points are decided on tiebreakers 16-32 all had 14 wins, 33-60 all had 13, is it really worth giving away 1 point for each place? For example, Ben Stoll got 25 more points than me for PCLA simply because he had better breakers. Thats an entire 10k win, just for bad breakers!

The points should reflect good win totals, not good tiebreakers at the 4 most important tournaments of the year

Adam Prosak

i agree with adam, the system needs to be changed:( , but sheesh, the guy wins a couple of ten kays and he wants them to be worth hundreds of points each.

Just to let you know, the season for this posting started with 10K New York and so far has run through 10K Orlando. This seemed good because if I were to run it through the last 10K just before we had Indy, its not nearly as exciting watching standings change as they do right after a PC. It seems better to have the system start with some smaller events and work its way up to the PC and then end with the last PC of the season which last year was New York and this year I think is either Atlanta or New Orleans. It just so happens that last year I don't think there were any 10K's before the first PC of the season and now obviuosly there are.

On the subject of value of 10K's vs PC's and points, there was a lot of discussion about that last time, and I beleive the standings do come out accurate the further the season goes. The 10K's are the type of event where you can gain some ground in the standings but the PC's are really the big show and even just making money there is high on a lot of people's accomplishment and goals lists and should be worth a lot more points.

And on the case of tiebreakers, positions in tournaments are always determined by tiebreakers and there's no much to do to change that. If you use a system based on wins it may be a bit more accurate but its a lot harder to do and there would be alot more ties along with the difficulty of ranking 10K's due to the fact they always have different numbers of rounds unlike PC's. That not really what I'm trying to go for here, I'm just doing this cause I find it interesting and the system is easy to enter into my database and calculate.

There were a few $10ks before PC Indy last year. Atleast 3 that I recall (the 1st $10k in Philly at Wizard World won by Boccio and then another $10k at Origins won by Perlas? and also the San Diego ComicCon $10k won by some mutant nation deck I think).

quang 10k san diego

Actually, I think Bill Hodack won at Origins with Big Brotherhood over CaptainCarl. I only remember this because he wrote a slew of articles proclaiming Big Brotherhood to be the best deck in Vs., period... then went something like 0-3 drop at PC Indy and disappeared from the game.

And Scudder is correct: Quang Nguyen won ComiCon with Mutant Nation. Not a bad deck, but I think Force is really now the standard for Mutant Nation decks.

It's okay if you can't remember the names of all of the people who won those 10K's so long ago, Dalton. Hell, I never can seem to remember who that guy was that got second in Amsterdam! ;)

Also one at Chicago Wizard World the week b4 indy i think it was, may have been 2 weeks though, I "THINK" it was won by IQ

Jeremy Tucker with BBH. IQ was with the Fearsome Five/Doom combo deck but he didn't make the finals.

Wasn't PC Indy where Brian Kibler came out of his hole saw his shadow and we got 5 more weeks of Common Enemy?