USATT ratings

earned for "mostly hardbat" vs. sponge play

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 = 1664

A (*) 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!