It’s time for another World Cup! It astounds me how much the site has grown — last year when I was making this table I didn’t even have three years of data to work with. Now I have fourteen. I did my best to find the participants but some of the national teams appear to have people that have never played in a GP or PT. They’ve been colored gray and given the starting rating of 1500. Some ratings may differ slightly from players’ personal pages because they incorporate corrections and/or data from 2003-05 which hasn’t been integrated into the site yet. (More on that next week!)