Andy Fleming has entered 359 tournaments, more than anyone in the state

Three hundred and fifty-nine tracked tournaments. The next busiest player in this year's Minnesota top 25 has 256.

Andy Fleming has played more competitive pinball than anybody else in this list by a margin of a hundred events, and he has done it without missing a single month in 39 consecutive months. That streak is the longest currently running in the state.

He is fifteenth on 142.96 points. Thirty-one first places, 90 podiums, 1,827 games, 200 different machines on file.

Three rooms, not one

Three venues past 70 events apiece. Nobody else in the top 25 has more than two rooms in three figures, and most have one. His best average finish comes at Bad Penny, where 71 events have produced 177 firsts from 514 games.

Bad Penny is also where most of his wins come from, which is what happens when a player finds a room whose lineup suits them.

The 87-player afternoon

On October 14, 2023, LITT Pinball Bar opened its doors with a grand opening and Venom launch party. Eighty-seven players entered. Fleming won it.

That is the second-largest outright field win held by anybody in this year's top 25, behind only Chris Frame's 101-player Kentucky Derby.

His other significant results:

• LITT July 2025 Open, 59 players
• Broken Clock 3-Strike, May, 33 players, May 2025
• Stern Army King Kong launch at Bad Penny, 24 players
• Friday Night Fight Club at Bad Penny, 23 players
• Bad Penny Friday Night Match Play, 23 players

Twenty-three outright wins plus eight shared firsts. His 2026 wins include the LITT February finals out of 16, NPC Friday Night out of 16, the Spring Competitive League round three out of 16 and Lil B's Birthday Bash out of 13 in July.

The cost of volume

A 37.1% game win rate puts Fleming in the 76th percentile, which is the lowest of anybody in this year's top fifteen. His average finish percentile is 80th.

Those are solid numbers for a good club player. They are not the numbers of a player you would expect to find fifteenth in a state championship series, and the reason he is there is straightforward: 359 events give you a lot of chances for twenty of them to go well.

The records against the field explain the rate:

• Luke Nahorniak: 17-87 with 16 ties over 120 games, 20.8%
• Mark Larson: 28-79-2 over 109 games
• Keith Hanson: 31-78-5 over 114 games
• Nathan Reardon: 39-72-9 over 120 games
• Steven Skochinski: 12-44-4 over 60 games
• Daniel Hammond: 24-48-9 over 81 games

Six opponents, 604 shared games, behind in all of them. Playing three rooms means meeting everybody strong in the metro, repeatedly.

Where he is ahead: Bryan Moen at 8-4 over 12 games, which is a genuinely surprising line given Moen's rating. Louis Acre-Kendall at 28-34 is close, and he is 19-23-1 with Alex Huth over 43.

Machines: old Williams

Swords of Fury over 18 games with nine firsts and eight seconds is his most solid record, and Prospector at 16 games is the other one worth trusting. A 1987 Williams and a 1977 Gottlieb.

His weak list is where the scouting value is:

• Star Gazer, 0.258 over 8 games, a 21.4% win rate
• Guardians of the Galaxy, 0.340 over 19 games
• Rush, 0.350 over 8 games
• DE Jurassic Park, 0.370 over 9 games

Nineteen games of Guardians of the Galaxy at 33.3% is the most reliable negative reading in his whole file, and it is a machine that turns up often. Eric Fryc, ranked one place below him, has a 79.2% record on the same game over 17 games.

Current form

Cold: 50% over ten games against a 59% baseline. His most recent result was fifth of 20 at the Super Ball XL finals on September 19, which was his best showing in that stretch.

If you draw him

Guardians of the Galaxy. Nineteen games is a real sample and a third is a real gap.

After that, Star Gazer or Rush if either is on the bank. Keep him away from Swords of Fury and the 90s Williams titles.

With 200 machines and 1,827 games on file, the scouting report will have something on him at any venue in the metro. The rest of the 2026 top 25 is here.