How's things been going so far? (1/4)

I'll hold off on new FRH rankings until after this weekend's Euro Tour, but what I thought I'd do is look at the tour card holders and see how things have been going so far. I've roughly split them into four categories:

- First year card holders (or at least those who started out at zero this year)

- Second year card holders (i.e. those outside of the top 64 who haven't started from zero)

- Those in the top 64 but not the top 32

- Those in the top 32

All have somewhat different aims, so for me this seems like a logical, roughly equal set of pools to split everyone into. First, the first year card holders.

Might be a bit small, if so apologies, but hopefully this data should make sense. I'm doing it now as we're just approaching a third of the way through the season in all of the Pro Tour, Euro Tour and majors. What we're seeing here is kind of as expected - the top six is arguably the known good players that were coming in, along with Gawlas who's had some very good early runs. We've then got a chunk of players who've either been on and off, or are otherwise at least known - Sharp doing well to get in that group, although it's not quite converted into results yet. Then we've got mostly the random players - I'd have thought Landman and Bellmont might be doing a bit better at this point, but there's plenty of time for that to change. Landman has just qualified for a Euro Tour which is going to help. As said, I don't think there is that much that is a surprise here. Next up - the second year players.