INTERNET PAX BRITANNICA LADDER

September 1997


The Pax Britannica Ladder is usually compiled by Jeff Janoska. The recent updates have been done by Rune Aaboen. Previous positions refer to the last table created, not neccessarily the last table posted. The ladder is updated after the end of the CUBA game.

Points are based on a 9/6/4/3/2/1/0 system.
Number of games on Table: 20


Player Rankings
Power Rankings
How long do games last?
Games on Table
Previous Ladders




PLAYER RANKINGS

Alasdair Brooks still holds the top spot. Mark O'English regains the 2nd position, after an impressive 4th win of 7 games. The only new entry into the main list is Joe Leonard, with his second 3rd position in two attempts. John Jordan has still played more games than anyone else (9), but Don McKinney is closing with (8).
Mark Elliot still has GM'ed the most games (6).

PLAYER Position Previous Played GM'ed Wins Points Avarage
Brooks, Alasdair 1 1 2 - 1 15 7.5
O'English, Mark 2 3 7 - 4 46 6.6
Rosentover, Todd 3 2 2 - 1 13 6.5
Williams, Wayne 4 3 3 - 1 18.5 6.2
Baron, Ben 5 5 3 1 - 18 6.0
Foelsche, Karl 6 7 4 - 1 20.2 5.1
Mckinney, Don 7 9 8 - 2 40.2 5.0
Chase, Robert 8 8 2 - - 10 5.0
Isabelle, Alan 9 10 4 - 1 19 4.8
Janoska, Jeff 10 6 6 5 1 28 4.7
Poulter, Alan 11 11 4 - 1 18 4.5
Orme, Richard 12 12 2 - - 9 4.5
Bailey, James 13 13 5 - 1 20 4.0
Leonard, Joe 13 New 2 - - 8 4.0
Elliot, Mark 15 14 2 6 - 7 3.5
Jordan, John 16 15 9 1 1 31 3.4
Langley, Keith 17 16 5 - - 13.2 2.6
Morgan, Charles 18 17 2 - - 5 2.5
Biggs, Doug 19 18 4 - - 9 2.3
Hiley, Jeff 20 19 2 - - 4 2.0
Sims, Simmy 21 20 2 - - 4 2.0
Bohna, Monte 22 21 2 - - 3.5 1.8
Unlu, Mustafa 23 22 2 - - 3 1.5
Perttila, Jussi 24 23 2 - - 3 1.5
Abrahamsen, Paul 25 24 4 1 - 5 1.3
Moore, Eric 26 25 4 4 - 4.2 1.1
Fishel, Chris 27 26 2 - - 2 1.0
Christensen, Jeff 28 27 2 - - 0 0.0
Boor, David 28 27 3 - - 0 0.0
Aaboen, Rune 1 3 1 9.0
Delwood, Robert 1 - 1 9.0
Gassan, Richard 1 - 1 9.0
Lindberg, Eric 1 - 1 9.0
Simpson, Alan 1 - 1 9.0
Benedict, Nick 1 - - 6.0
Matthews, Simon 1 - - 6.0
Rajagopalan, Rama 1 - - 6.0
Scharf, Eric 1 - - 6.0
Boeke, Joe 1 - - 4.0
Erhardt, George 1 - - 4.0
Pickering, David 1 - - 4.0
Sarn, Keith 1 - - 4.0
Wimble, Will 1 - - 4.0
Lydick, William 1 - - 3.2
Harrison, Jeff 1 - - 3.0
Krog, Andrew 1 - - 3.0
Wagner, Nathan 1 - - 3.0
Markus Kaessbohrer 1 - - 3.0
Apps, Philip 1 - - 2.0
Atchely, Michael 1 - - 2.0
Hiesterman, Karl 1 - - 2.0
Luo, Jay 1 - - 2.0
Wilke, John 1 - - 2.0
Guido Pacifici 1 - - 1.0
Dowidet, Christian 1 - - 1.0
Greenfield, Chris 1 - - 1.0
K, Kevin 1 - - 1.0
McCluskey, John 1 - - 1.0
Miller, Albert 1 - - 1.0
Mosdal, F. Robert 1 - - 1.0
Gell, Keith 1 - - 0.0
Matthews-Simon, Mark 1 - - 0.0
Nelson, Carl 1 - - 0.0




HOW DO THE POWERS RANK?

Britain continues to dominate, despite the recent 7th position. There appears to be 3 tiers of powers --
First, Britain. Then Russia, Italy and the USA as second ranks. And last, France (despite 2 wins), Germany and Japan.

POWER Wins Points Average
Great Britain 8 98.0 4.9
Russia 3 80.0 4.0 +1 position
Italy 4 77.2 3.9 -1 position
USA 3 76.5 3.8
France 2 57.2 2.9 +2 position
Germany - 56.7 2.8 -1 position
Japan - 55.7 2.8 -1 position




HOW LONG DO GAMES LAST?

On average, games last until 1893. The shortest game ended in 1880, while the longest games ended in 1904.

On average, deliberately ended games last until 1890. The earliest end was in 1880, while the latest deliberate end was in 1900. 9 games have been ended deliberatly.

On average, incidentally ended games last until 1896. The earliest incidental end was in 1888, while the latest was in 1904. 11 games ended through stumbling into the Great War.

Chinese Rebellions have started in 6 games. On average the rebellion occurs in 1894. The earliest Rebellion was in 1892, while the latest rebellion was in 1896.

YEAR ENDED Great War Chineese Rebellion Deliberate GW Incidental GW
1880 1 0 1 0
1884 2 0 2 0
1888 2 0 1 1
1892 6 3 2 4
1896 5 3 2 3
1900 2 0 1 1
1904 2 0 0 2
1908 0 0 0 0
1912 0 0 0 0
1916 0 0 0 0
None 0 N/A N/A N/A
Total #'s 20 6 9 11

Deliberate games ended in the Great War and the GM ruled that some one deliberately ended the Game.
Incidental means that the players stumbled into the Great War.




GAMES RANKED

Mark Elliot
94-1, 95A, 95C, 95D, 95E
Jeff Janoska
pbj-1, pbj-3, pbj-4, pbj-5, pbj-6
Paul Abrahamsen
pbx-2
Ben Baron
Game-1
Eric Moore
EM1, EM2, EM3, EM4
John Jordan/Mark Elliot
94-2
Rune Aaboen
Ashantee, Brasil, Cuba