07/20/10 ================= 1. 2232 Franz-Josef Huermann 2. 2193 Steve Berger 3. 2126 Noel Huermann 4. 2112 Ty Hoff 5. 2104 Boris Rabinovich 6. 2101 Don Brazzell 7. 2087 Timothy Kelly 8. 2036 Roy Schlabach, Jr. 9. 2021 George T. Cooper 10. 1994 Norman Bass 11. 1966 Scott Gordon 12. 1949 Marty Reisman 13. 1933 Alan Millett 14. 1930 M. M. Pete May 15. 1911 Dmitri Moundous 16. 1892 Jay Turberville 17. 1877 Janadri, Bchara 18. 1874 Steven Hitchner 19. 1868 James Rautis 20. 1849 Allen McDermott 21. 1840 Lorin Benedict 22.*1819 Scott Andrew Baker 23. 1817 Ralph Stadelman 24. 1813 Adoni Maropis 25. 1812 Scott Kressner 26. 1808 Houshang Bozorgzadeh 27. 1804 Rod Cowles 28. 1786 Jayant R. Geete 29 1785 Tony Ettinger 30. 1783 Bob Weich 31. 1781 Carl C. Miller II 32. 1779 Gordon Beehler 33. 1772 Bill Dorsch 34. 1767 Martin J. Theil, III 35. 1764 Andrew Hutzel 36. 1760 Harry Deschamps 37. 1743 B. Ball 38. 1732 Ivan Slade 39. 1723 Papp, Albert 40. 1715 Robert Palgon tie Thomas J. Huff 42. 1653 John Starr 43. 1649 Newton, Curt 44. 1644 Peter Zombori 45. 1638 Francis Kristofic 46. 1637 Matt Faccini 47.*1622 Tisler, James 48. 1598 John Pratt 49. 1594 Tim Boggan 50. 1574 Haskard, Donald 51. 1570 Dean Johnson 52. 1548 Dean Norman 53. 1542 Don Varian 54. 1498 Wayne Johnson 55. 1497 Conlee, George 56. 1486 Bob Reising 57. 1466 Tim Wright 58. 1464 Paul Loscavio 59. 1415 Friedman, James 60. 1402 Berndt Mann 61 1399 Harvey Gotliffe 62. 1387 Gerald Ladd 63. 1386 Matthew Von Voght 64. 1374 Frank Herbst 65. 1367 Hermann Luechinger 66. 1361 Dan Marinas 67.*1352 Fred Kurtz 68. 1345 Jeff Louie 69. 1203 Temitope Isibor 70. 1115 Peter Markus 71.*1055 Lawrence Bone 72. 982 John Grinnell 73 * 889 Jim Carlson 74. 686 Howard Blum 75.* 474 Augustin Crawford 76. 174 Devin Forsey (warning: way, WAY underrated!) AVERAGE = 1664A (*) preceeding the rating indicates that this player does not yet have a UHRL (hardbat event) rating.
2292 John Tannehill rating before returning to sponge play
2183 Larry Hodges rating before returning to sponge play
2112 Danny Hill rating before returning to sponge play
1899 Jonathon Adams rating before returning to sponge play
1849 Sonny Bradley rating before returning to sponge play
1834 Lobo Lin rating before returning to sponge play
1793 Thanh Nguyen rating before returning to sponge play
1553 Jose Bulatao rating before returning to sponge play
1536 John Franicevich rating before returning to sponge play
548 Ji Li rating before switching to sponge
NOTE: It is a generally-held opinion that hardbat play versus sponge is a very different game than hardbat vs. hardbat. This list is included to show that you don't need sponge to play a competitive game. As you can see, the average ratings of hardbat players, even against sponge, is higher than the average sponge rating!