World Snooker ranking is not much different from the rating in other sports. In general, this is a method of ranking professional snooker players. Those players who are at the top of the rankings, as a rule, immediately placed in the final part of various competitions. But the players with a low rating are required to take place in the final round of the tournament through qualification. Thus, the higher-ranked player is of great importance and is considered to be more powerful.

However, scoring in the ranking snooker this is not easy and can put a screeching halt even the most ardent fans of the game. List of tournaments, for participation in which points are added (rated tournaments) are not always permanent. Points for participating in the tournament and it rounds also varies from year to year. Names of tournaments are also changing. As a rule, it all depends on the company sponsored the competition.

The rating system was introduced in order to determine the seeded players at the World Championship. This happened in 1976. The original version of the calculation only takes into account the results shown players rated over the past three years at the World Championships. Points are awarded according to the following system: five points for a win at the world championships, four - for the finals, three points for the semi-finals, two - for participation in the quarterfinals and one point awarded players who have passed the 1/8 finals. World Number One was Ray Reardon. He won the world title three consecutive years. At that time he had 15 rating points.

This system was used until the end of the season 1982 - 1983 years. But due to the increase in the number of the tournament, it was decided to count the results of all competitions. After a few years in the ranking calculation came in performances at tournaments «Grand Prix» (earlier «Professional Players tournament»), «UK Championship» and «British Open», «Lada Classic» and «Jameson International».

The system of counting of points continued to change nearly every year, also tournaments on the basis of which the rating paid off changed.

World Championship is the only tournament where points are doubled. At the «UK Championship» points is calculated as more than a normal tournament - by 1,5 times. This applies only to professional players who participate in the Main Tour.

Updated after the Scottish Open № Name Sum 1 Ronnie O'Sullivan 1196500 2 Judd Trump 1166500 3 Mark J Williams 1028000 4 Neil Robertson 842500 5 John Higgins 795500 6 Mark Selby 752225 7 Mark Allen 677000 8 Kyren Wilson 561225 9 Barry Hawkins 409500 10 Ding Junhui 403500 11 Jack Lisowski 398600 12 David B Gilbert 394000 13 Stuart Bingham 390500 14 Shaun Murphy 375000 15 Luca Brecel 350600 16 Stephen Maguire 346000 17 Allister Carter 308000 18 Ryan Day 295000 19 Joe Perry 282000 20 Gary Wilson 242600 21 Yan Bingtao 236000 22 Graeme Dott 228500 23 Anthony McGill 223000 24 Jimmy Robertson 222725 25 Xiao Guodong 203100 26 Lu Haotian 190500 27 Tom Ford 186225 28 Mark King 178725 29 Li Hang 176000 30 Ricky Walden 173600 31 Zhou Yuelong 169500 32 Martin Gould 169000

PTC Ranking 2015-2016 № Name Sum 1 Mark Selby 26625 2 Barry Hawkins 25275 3 Marco Fu 23175 4 Mark Allen 22200 4 Rory McLeod 22200 6 Allister Carter 20550