USATT ratings
earned for "mostly hardbat" vs. sponge play
10/10/11 =================
1. 2290 Jones Baldonado
2. 2232 Franz-Josef Huermann
3. 2230 Steve Berger
4. 2120 Noel Huermann
5. 2110 Ty Hoff
6. 2104 Boris Rabinovich
7. 2101 Don Brazzell
8. 2083 Timothy Kelly
9. 2033 Jeff Johnston
10. 1994 Norman Bass
11. 1991 George T. Cooper
12. 1956 Jay Turberville
13. 1949 Marty Reisman
14. 1947 Dmitri Moundous
15. 1933 Alan Millett
16. 1930 M. M. Pete May
17. 1913 Rod Cowles
18. 1912 Scott Gordon
19. 1881 Adoni Maropis
20. 1877 Janadri, Bchara
21. 1861 Steven Hitchner
22. 1849 Allen McDermott
23. 1847 Jayant R. Geete
24. 1843 Carl C. Miller II
25. 1840 Lorin Benedict
26.*1819 Scott Andrew Baker
27. 1817 Robert Palgon
28. 1812 Scott Kressner
29. 1810 Ralph Stadelman
30. 1785 Tony Ettinger
31. 1783 Bob Weich
32. 1779 Gordon Beehler
33. 1772 Bill Dorsch
34. 1760 Harry Deschamps
35. 1743 Ed Ball
36. 1737 Peter Zombori
37. 1732 Ivan Slade
38. 1723 Papp, Albert
39. 1709 Houshang Bozorgzadeh
40. 1694 Evangelos Fondas
41. 1687 Andrew Hutzel
42. 1653 John Starr
43. 1649 Newton, Curt
44. 1638 Francis Kristofic
45. 1637 Matt Faccini
46.*1622 Tisler, James
47. 1598 John Pratt
48. 1594 Tim Boggan
49. 1574 Haskard, Donald
50. 1570 Dean Johnson
51. 1548 Dean Norman
52. 1544 Martin J. Theil, III
53. 1542 Don Varian
54. 1532 Joe Gusky
55. 1498 Wayne Johnson
56. 1497 Thomas J. Huff
57. 1497 Conlee, George
58. 1495 Harvey Gotliffe
59. 1486 Bob Reising
60. 1466 Tim Wright
61. 1464 Paul Loscavio
62. 1455 Tom Kueneman
63. 1415 Friedman, James
64. 1402 Berndt Mann
65. 1386 Matthew Von Voght
66. 1374 Frank Herbst
67. 1370 Gerald Ladd
68. 1367 Hermann Luechinger
69. 1361 Dan Marinas
70.*1352 Fred Kurtz
71. 1345 Jeff Louie
72. 1203 Temitope Isibor
73.*1157 Lawrence Bone
74. 1115 Peter Markus
75. 982 John Grinnell
76 * 889 Jim Carlson
77. 686 Howard Blum
78.* 474 Augustin Crawford
AVERAGE = 1659
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
1996 Roy Schlabach, Jr. rating before returning to sponge play
1932 James Rautis 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 actually slightly
higher than the average sponge rating!