PSPR - The Final Pinburgh Decay

Over this past week, the results from Pinburgh 2019 — the largest pinball tournament ever held — and Intergalactic Pinball Championships 2019 — the largest non-Pinburgh tournament ever held — finally decayed completely from player’s IFPA profiles. This has caused seismic shifts in the Pinball Statistics Power Rankings, as you can see below.

Following the Replay Foundation’s 2020 announcement, many people took to social media to voice their support of the Replay Foundation, Replay FX, and the Pinburgh and PAPA tournaments of years past. I appreciate all the experiences that I had at Pinburgh tournaments in the past. It took the members and volunteers for the Replay Foundation many years to build their great events, and I’m glad that I still see that enthusiasm within the competitive pinball community, as members work to build tournaments that they enjoy and others can participate in.

New to the Power Rankings this week is the metric that determines rankings: the Pinball Power Index (PPI). The name comes from ESPN’s Football Power Index or Basketball Power Index. Like ESPN, the exact formula is not publicly shared. However, there is an explanation post about all the statistics that factor into the PPI.

	A	B	C	D
1	Name	Rank Change	RANK	PPI
2	Escher Lefkoff	No Change	1	25.08
3	Jason Zahler	2	2	24.54
4	Johannes Ostermeier	-1	3	23.69
5	Eric Stone	-1	4	22.93
6	Raymond Davidson	No Change	5	21.73
7	Jared August	2	6	19.02
8	Cayle George	No Change	7	18.81
9	Keith Elwin	-2	8	18.50
10	Colin Urban	No Change	9	17.74
11	Daniele Celestino Acciari	No Change	10	15.27
12	Aleksander Kaczmarczyk	No Change	11	15.26
13	Bowen Kerins	No Change	12	14.49
14	Stephen Prusa	No Change	13	14.31
15	Zach McCarthy	3	14	14.18
16	Colin MacAlpine	3	15	13.79
17	Dalton Ely	-1	16	13.57
18	Walt Wood	-3	17	13.37
19	John Delzoppo	-2	18	13.16
20	Julio Vicario Soriano	No Change	19	11.13
21	Paul Englert	3	20	10.74
22	Arvid Flygare	11	21	10.52
23	Carlos Delaserda	8	22	10.31
24	Germain Mariolle	-2	23	10.24
25	Marcus Hugosson	-2	24	10.13
26	Flavio Baddaria	-1	25	9.85
27	Markus Stix	-1	26	9.80
28	Andy Rosa	-7	27	9.76
29	David Riel	No Change	28	9.75
30	Robert Sutter	-3	29	9.72
31	Viggo Löwgren	9	30	9.44
32	Peter Andersen	2	31	9.31
33	Steven Bowden	-5	32	9.07
34	Gabor Solymosi	-4	33	9.06
35	Derek Price	No Change	34	9.04
36	Phil Grimaldi	-4	35	8.50
37	Neil Graf	4	36	8.25
38	Robert Byers	1	37	8.08
39	Jim Belsito	-2	38	8.05
40	Drew Cedolia	6	39	7.55
41	Jason Lambert	1	40	7.30
42	Andrei Massenkoff	-6	41	7.30
43	Andy Bagwell	9	42	7.29
44	Nico Wicke	No Change	43	7.13
45	Jason Werdrick	-2	44	6.76
46	Lonnie Langford	4	45	6.74
47	Tom Casey	-2	46	6.69
48	David Daluga	6	47	6.67
49	Karl DeAngelo	-11	48	6.66
50	Roberto Pedroni	-3	49	6.65
51	Travis Murie	4	50	6.62
52	Joe Lemire	4	51	6.17
53	Josh Sharpe	No Change	52	5.98
54	Andrew Foster	-3	53	5.92
55	Zach Sharpe	3	54	5.66
56	Robert Gagno	-8	55	5.47
57	Paul Jongma	14	56	5.34
58	Luke Nahorniak	-1	57	5.30
59	Markus Virtanen	9	58	5.15
60	Alberto Santana	1	59	5.15
61	Jesse Baker	16	60	5.10
62	John Miller MO	-13	61	4.98
63	Matthew Stacks	32	62	4.65
64	Tim Sexton	6	63	4.63
65	Mark Pearson	1	64	4.41
66	Richard Rhodes	-6	65	4.35
67	Emil ED Dreiborg	-4	66	4.34
68	Franck Bona	-3	67	4.30
69	Dave Hubbard	-10	68	4.17
70	Mats Runsten	-3	69	3.93
71	Timothy Street	-7	70	3.53
72	Lewis Bevans	2	71	3.45
73	Elliott Keith	-4	72	3.25
74	Will McKinney	-1	73	3.11
75	Jerry Bernard	-3	74	3.05
76	John Shopple	3	75	2.98
77	Jordan Semrow	5	76	2.97
78	Jonas Valström	No Change	77	2.89
79	Jack Tadman	1	78	2.88
80	Johnny Modica	-5	79	2.81
81	Adam McKinnie	0	80	2.75
82	Sean Davis	17	81	2.70
83	Mads Kristensen	3	82	2.66
84	Trent Augenstein	-8	83	2.53
85	Bill Mason	12	84	2.52
86	Olli-Mikko Ojamies	7	85	2.50
87	Sebastian Bobbio	2	86	2.41
88	Donavan Stepp	3	87	2.27
89	Keri Wing	-6	88	2.25
90	Billy Brown III	4	89	2.15
91	Tobias Wagemann	-6	90	2.09
92	Roland Nadeau	-8	91	2.03
93	Tom Graf	-3	92	2.00
94	Alex Harmon	unranked	93	1.63
95	Shannon Stafford	-3	94	1.60
96	Levente Tregova	No Change	95	1.60
97	Phil Birnbaum	1	96	1.34
98	Wesley Johnson	unranked	97	1.28
99	John Kottmann	-12	98	1.15
100	Mitchell Stewart NZ	No Change	99	1.09
101	Mike Tzanakos	unranked	100	1.05