1982–83 snooker world rankings

Cliff Thorburn (pictured in 2007) dropped from first place in the previous list to third in 1982/1983.

The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, the governing body for professional snooker, first published official world rankings for players on the main tour for the 1976–77 season. Before this, for each tournament the defending champion was seeded first, and the previous year's runner-up second.<ref name="SCENE76">Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref name="CT">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="CTH">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

For the 1982–83 season, players' performances in the previous three World Snooker Championships (1980, 1981 and 1982) contributed to their points total. For each of the three years, the World Champion gained five points, the runner-up received four, losing semi-finalists got three, losing quarter-finalists got two, and losers in the last-16 round received a single point.<ref name="SCENE82">Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref name="CTH"/> For players with no points, placings were determined on the basis of their results at the 1982 World Championship.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref name="RAYTOP">Template:Cite news</ref>

Ray Reardon, who had topped every previous ranking list except during 1981/1982, returned to first position, with nine points.<ref name="SCENE82" /><ref name="HAMLYN">Template:Cite book</ref> The player whom Reardon replaced as number one, Cliff Thorburn, had eight points and dropped to third position.<ref name="SCENE82" /><ref name="HAMLYN"/> Also with eight points, Alex Higgins was ranked ahead of Thorburn by virtue of better progress at the 1982 championship.<ref name="RAYTOP"/> Higgins had two ranking points deducted for misconduct which meant that he was ranked second rather than first.<ref name="SCENE82" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="SCENE81">Template:Cite magazine</ref> The penalty was applied in respect of Higgins's conduct at an exhibition match at Herringthorpe Leisure Centre in February 1981, when he was late returning to his match against Steve Davis, reportedly because he was playing Space Invaders.<ref name="SCENE82" /><ref name="HIGTRO"/> Davis moved down two places from second to fourth, while Terry Griffiths fell from third to fourteenth.<ref name="SCENE82" /> The top sixteen players in the rankings were seeded through to the main stage of the 1983 World Snooker Championship.<ref name="SCENE82" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Rankings

The world rankings for professional snooker players in the 1982–1983 season are listed below. Points gained in each of the three World Snooker Championships are shown, with the total number of points given in the last column. A "–" symbol indicates that the player did not participate in that year's championship.<ref name="SCENE82" /><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Snooker world rankings 1982/1983

Ranking	Name	1980	1981	1982	Total
1	Template:Flagathlete	2	3	4	9
2	Template:Flagathlete	4	1Template:Efn	5	8
3	Template:Flagathlete	5	3	0	8
4	Template:Flagathlete	2	5	0	7
5	Template:Flagathlete	2	1	3	6
6	Template:Flagathlete	3	1	2	6
7	Template:Flagathlete	1	4	1	6
8	Template:Flagathlete	3	2	0	5
9	Template:Flagathlete	1	2	1	4
10	Template:Flagathlete	–	0	3	3
11	Template:Flagathlete	1	1	1	3
12	Template:Flagathlete	1	1	1	3
13	Template:Flagathlete	1	2	0	3
14	Template:Flagathlete	1	2	0	3
15	Template:Flagathlete	–	0	2	2
16	Template:Flagathlete	0	0	2	2
17	Template:Flagathlete	–	–	2	2
18	Template:Flagathlete	0	1	1	2
19	Template:Flagathlete	1	0	1	2
20	Template:Flagathlete	1	1	0	2
21	Template:Flagathlete	2	0	0	2
22	Template:Flagathlete	–	–	1	1
23	Template:Flagathlete	0	0	1	1
24	Template:Flagathlete	0	1	0	1
25	Template:Flagathlete	0	–	0	0
26	Template:Flagathlete	0	0	0	0
27	Template:Flagathlete	–	0	0	0
28	Template:Flagathlete	0	0	0	0
29	Template:Flagathlete	–	–	0	0
30	Template:Flagathlete	0	0	0	0
31	Template:Flagathlete	0	0	0	0
32	Template:Flagathlete	–	–	0	0

References

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