Originally posted by Cheung
Hey, 2cents, I remember reading on IBF website somewhere (or maybe Star Online) that that is exactly the intention of IBF. Give more points to players who play more to encourage more participation of tournaments. There was a time when Hendrawan was World Champion but only played 3rd singles in Thomas Cup.
I read that argument too about the IBF ranking theory. But that theory is stupid and absurd. Beating a final oppornent will give you the same point as beating at 1st round. That is not ranking, it is just
counting(mostly not correct counting).
For example, Taufik beat many big names, and grabbed the INA open title, he had 6 wins and 0 losss, and got 480 points. Taufik skipped Singapore open.
Susilo won 3 easy early rounds at Singapore open, 3 wins 1 loss, got 264 points, then won another 3 easy early rounds at Batam, another 3 wins 1 loss, got another 264 points. Totally he didn't win against big names, 6 wins 2 losses (definitely worse results by any means), but he got 538 points, which is much higher than Taufik's.
Wu YY won 7 matches at INA open, 7 wins 1 loss (also clearly better than Susilo), but got only 336 points (Compare to Susilo's 538 points). Wu YY did play more matches than Taufik, and won more matches than Taufik, but also has less points than Taufik 336 points. (This is reasonably for us because Wu beat lower class players, this example just back counters IBF rule for encourage players to play more)
Originally posted by Cheung
Some people argue that that was ridiculous but if he doesn't play any tournaments, how can you tell what ranking a player or pair should be? I beleive this year will be better becuase of Olympic qualification. BTW, I really like your calculation of the summary of the Olympic points accrued so far. [/B]
If you don't play, you of course don't have any points. But winning the final is different from winning at the first round. There are a lot of way to make it different. Tennis ranking is one of the model, Golf is another.
Originally posted by Cheung
Zhao was supposed to have pneumonia in 1985 just before WC. Lots of people speculated it was for other reasons that accounted for his absence.
China government news agency said that Zhao had a pneumonia, the acute inflammation of the lungs. But when the news I first heard from Voice of American and Taiwan radio station was that he was try to escape from Chinese team, but failed. The truth was he was on perfect condition the 1st day, and sent home immediately with a company the 2nd day without giving any reason. After he's back to China and the speculations, China news said he got lung disease. Some players and coaches from his hometown wanted to visit him, but was not allowed by Chinese government.