The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, the governing body for professional snooker, first published official worldrankings for players
sport of snooker has utilised a worldrankings system since 1975, used to seed players on the WorldSnooker Tour for tournaments. Originally rankings were
the ranking list. Initially, the rankings were based on performances in the preceding three world championships. The list for the 1986–87 snooker season
professional snooker players ordered by the number of "ranking titles" they have won. A ranking title is a tournament that counts towards the snookerworld rankings
The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, the governing body for professional snooker, first published official worldrankings for players