Watching a match / RANK147
How head-to-head records work: what they count and what they leave out
How the head-to-head record on match pages counts wins, draws and missing results, why a player’s different source IDs are merged, and what the record cannot tell you.
Explains how our head-to-head records are counted. They cover only matches collected on this site, not the players’ complete history against each other.
Where to find it
Open any match and the head-to-head section lists the other matches between the two players that this site has collected, excluding the match you are viewing. The list is newest first and paged, and each row links to that match.
Wins, losses, draws and missing results
Wins and losses use each match’s latest score revision, so when an official score is corrected the record follows.
A match with no winner, level frames and at least one frame played counts as a draw; Championship League group matches played over four frames can finish 2–2, for example. Matches with a missing or unclear score are listed separately as missing results and are never assigned to either player.
One player, two IDs
Ranking data and match data come from different sources, so one player can have two IDs. We only merge them when the names match and a WPBSA player profile exists among the same-name records. Players who only share a name in the WST match data are not merged, so two different players with the same name are not counted as one.
What the record cannot tell you
The record covers only matches collected here. Older matches and events we do not cover, such as Q School or the winter Championship League invitational, may be missing, so it is not a complete head-to-head history.
Head-to-head samples are usually small, and one or two matches depend heavily on format, form and timing. When comparing two players, check whether the formats and event levels match before reading the win–loss figures.