The hottest form reading in the state belongs to No. 7, who also holds a winning lifetime record against the No. 1 and has played 489 games against the man one place below him.
213 of his 222 tracked tournaments happened at Blainbrook, and 38 straight months have gone by without him missing one. The result is a set of rivalry records deep enough to be statistically boring, which is the point.
No single result on his sheet would turn a head. Twenty of them stacked together put him fifth in the state, ahead of players with four times his trophy count.
Five career tournament wins, three of them this summer, and one of those was a 68-player open at LITT. The newest name in Minnesota's top five is also the one with the least history behind him.
No. 3 in the state, nine straight months of entries, and a last-ten-games win rate of 90% against a career baseline of 69%. He took the August open at LITT out of a 49-player field.
Minnesota's No. 2 holds the highest Match Play rating in the state's top 25 and a 35-month entry streak that has never broken. Almost all of it has happened at LITT Pinball Bar.
The state's No. 1 has 429 NACS points, almost double the next name on the list, and a 61% game win rate across 1,879 tracked games. He also has a losing lifetime record against the man sitting at No. 11.
Twenty-five players, 25,000 tracked games, and what the numbers say about each of them. Where they play, what they play well, who they cannot beat and what you should pick if you draw them.