World Rankings Yearend 2015

Paul McBeth #27523 continues his PDGA World Ranking reign over the disc golf domain closing out perhaps the most successful season for men in disc golf history with a record final rating of 1055. Paul swept every category used for the calculations winning every Major, ending with the highest rating and getting maximum points for NT/ET performance. Ricky Wysocki #38008 finished second and Will Schusterick #29064 in third. We now have ten countires where the top rated man has a rating over 1000, this year in tenth place, Chia-Shih Lo #43608 from Taiwan at 1004.

Paige Pierce #29190 finished on top of the PDGA World Rankings among the women edging past Catrina Allen #44184 in second and Sarah Hokom #34563 in third. Looking at their stats, Catrina appears even closer to Paige having won a few categories. Honorable mention to Mayu Iwasaki #8209 from Japan, the country with the second highest rated woman player behind the U.S. edging out the usually strong block of European just behind her.

This annual final World Ranking is the one time each year where Majors are not weighted based on how recently they were played. Although it's mid-March, all of the remaining 2015 TD reports had to be gathered to produce this yearend snapshot of all events for World Ranking archives. We were successful producing ratings for the roughly 2500 events and leagues in 2015 that qualified. The first World Ranking for 2016 will come out in a few weeks once we have the first ratings for 2016 posted next week.