CSW ratings

This page describes the Collins Scrabble ratings, and is part of our introduction to Collins (SOWPODS) in North America.

CSW Ratings

Tournaments played to CSW in North America and sanctioned by NASPA are rated under the NASPA SOWPODS rating system. Thus:

Playing a CSW tournament has no effect on your regular NASPA rating.

WGPO also plans to maintain separate rating systems for each lexicon if such divisions are played. As well as the national systems, all CSW tournaments in North America are eligible to be rated by the World English Scrabble Players Association (WESPA), the governing body of the English game worldwide, under their international system. In other words, if you play a CSW tournament, you can get a world ranking. However, non-NASPA CSW tournaments in North America (such as, e.g., WGPO) cannot be WESPA rated.

The NASPA SOWPODS system is described further on the NASPA wiki, but is essentially identical to the regular rating. Those with a regular rating start with that rating under NASPA SOWPODS, but with zero games. Existing tournament software such as tsh and Director! can handle this. Hence, adding a CSW division to a tournament is straightforward.

The WESPA system uses a different formula to NASPA, but the resulting distribution of ratings is broadly similar. A WESPA rating's value is slightly higher than NASPA, so that, e.g., 1950 in WESPA is more like 1900 in NASPA.

Several players are rated under two or more of the rating systems. Here, we list all players who have a NASPA SOWPODS and NASPA rating, plus their WESPA rating if they have one.

Sources:

  * NASPA full list, Sep 11th 2010

  * NASPA SOWPODS list, Sep 11th 2010

  * WESPA full list, Sep 1st 2010

Name	NASPA SOWPODS	NASPA	WESPA
Nigel Richards	2155	2140	2081
Pakorn Nemitrmansuk	2028	1948	2101
Nathan Benedict	2019	1968	2001
Adam Logan	2015	2037	2071
Carl Johnson	2004	2025	1950
Geoff Thevenot	1986	1876	1961
Dave Wiegand	1970	2014	2038
Robert Linn	1955	1755	1968
Joel Wapnick	1934	1911	2025
David Boys	1919	1843	2072
Tony Leah	1907	1902	1953
Brian Bowman	1906	1835	1924
Max Panitch	1901	1772	1966
Chris Cree	1891	1886	1940
Jim Kramer	1886	1891	1919
Mark Kenas	1876	1758	1915
Nick Ball	1866	1687	1937
Bob Lipton	1841	1823	1921
Steve Polatnick	1840	1789	1876
Jason Idalski	1840	1906	1802
Marty Gabriel	1833	1934	1910
Winter	1826	1866	1935
Ron Hoekstra	1821	1674	2014
Sam Kantimathi	1812	1614	1820
John O'Laughlin	1803	1916	1938
Travis Chaney	1790	1768	1842
Michael Thelen	1738	1781	1869
John Chew	1659	1661	1607
Jim Lamerand	1609	1641	1716
Andrew Golding	1599	1695	1671
Tim Anglin	1568	1502	1690
Jason Ubeika	1541	1670	1748
Jean McArthur	1540	1604	1663
Geoffrey Newman	1535	1629	1814
Eric Kinderman	1525	1535	1666
Steve Ozorio	1511	1516	1638
Thavachai Thivavarnvongs	1507	1610	1649
Stuart Goldman	1474	1565	1662
Pete Zeigler	1471	1533	1720
Bradley Robbins	1456	1477	-
Tobey Roland	1453	1416	1556
Vera Bigall	1439	1443	1360
Puneet Sharma	1371	1027	1717
Judy Newhouse	1280	1427	-
Tapani Lindgren	1278	1366	1513
Chris Mazzuca	1261	1242	-
Kathy Sutrov	1253	1211	-
Jesse Wornum	1220	1268	-
Jeff Kesner	1190	1114	1289
Kunihiko Kuroda	1174	1295	1337
Sharmaine Farini	1121	1090	1189
Joshua Standig	1012	971	-