USFSA Weekly Skater Standings
IceNetwork posts “World Figure Skating Rankings”
Check in with IceNetwork.com to find out how your favorite skater fared with the previous week's events.
Keep up with the weekly competitions that affect ISU world figure skating standings.
The world’s top twenty eligible figure skaters (men, ladies, pairs and ice dancers) will be announced weekly in a format that is more user-friendly than the ISU website’s free listing of the same.
IceNetwork’s rankings only include skaters who are actively participating in the current season’s competitions.
Standings are determined by total points accumulated since 2005 from national and international competitions. This season’s competitions are weighted at 100%, while last year’s events are only valued at 70%. Performances from the 2005-2006 season are multiplied by .30 when figuring points earned.
Effort is made to allow newer international skaters equal representation on the score board. When a more experienced skater competes during the current season, his or her points earned from 2005-2006 are dropped. This is done to even out the number of events counted toward standings. (Still, skaters who compete more will earn more points by default.)
Skaters “should” compete in approximately 10 events in a 2-year period, so total points are then divided by at least 10 before skaters are ranked. If a team or skater has competed in more than 10 events, the actual number of competitions is used as the divisor. This final number is the point total used for world standings.
October 22, 2007 World Standings
(Keep in mind the following top 5 in each discipline for your “Fantasy Skating” picks.) This week’s top skaters include Mao Asada, Yu-Na Kim, Miki Ando, Kimmie Meissner and Fumie Suguri for the women. This is a fairly close group, but all the ladies are working hard to improve their standings.
The men are equally represented with the unbeatable Brian Joubert, Stephane Lambiel, Daisuke Takahashi, Evan Lysacek, and Nobunari Oda. Over 104 points separate the top two male skaters!
The pairs podium looks very familiar as it include the Zhangs, Pang and Tong, Savchenko and Szolkowy, Petrova and Tikhonov, and Inoue and Baldwin. (Anticipate an up-coming change in the ranks given the longevity of these top skaters.)
Ice dancers who currently rule the world standings are Belbin and Agosto. Left in the dust nearly 55 points behind are Delobel and Schoenfelder, followed by Domnina and Shabalin, Virtue and Moir, and Khokhlova and Novitski.
With Skate America right around the corner, these standings may change a bit – at least in the lower ranks. See the ISU site for overall high scores and personal bests. According to them, legends, such as Evgeni Plushenko, are soon to be challenged for overall top scoring performances.
