Nathan Reardon has beaten Paul Tvedt 54 times in 67 games

Two players in this year's Minnesota top 25 have entered more tournaments than Nathan Reardon, and only one has tracked results on more machines. Two hundred and forty-three events, 1,584 games, 196 different machines, 28 tournament wins and 84 podiums.

He is thirteenth on 154.86 points, with a 47.5% game win rate that places him in the 93rd percentile of the 285 ranked players and an average finish in the 94th.

The 67-game beating

Against Paul Tvedt, who sits four places below him in the standings, Reardon is 54-12 with one tie across 67 games. That is 81.3%.

A record like that between two players ranked within four places of each other is rare. They have both played Northstar heavily for years, the sample is deep, and the gap has not closed. Tvedt's profile has the same fact from the other side.

His other lopsided win: Jack Copeland, 47-21 with 13 ties over 81 games, and Rob Koppelman at 31-11-5 over 47.

One hundred and twenty games against Fleming at 63.8% and 99 against Skelley at 57.6% are the deepest positive records in his file.

The other side of the ledger:

• Luke Nahorniak: 43-99 with 20 ties over 162 games, a 32.7% clip
• Mark Larson: 29-53-8 over 90 games
• Eric Fryc: 47-62-8 over 117 games
• Daniel Hammond: 38-55-9 over 102 games

That Nahorniak record is 162 games, the deepest head-to-head the state's No. 1 has with anyone. They have shared Northstar for years and Reardon has won 43 of them.

Five rooms

Six venues, four of them past 20 events. His average finish sits between 1.88 and 2.29 everywhere, which is the mark of a player who travels well. The worst reading is Blainbrook, which is the worst reading for most players who did not grow up there.

A Pro-Football record and a lot of Jurassic Park

The two entries with real depth: Deadpool over 28 games with 16 firsts, ten seconds and no thirds at all, and Jurassic Park over 33 games with 17 firsts, 12 seconds, four thirds and again no fourths.

Two machines, 61 games, and exactly two last-place finishes between them. That is an extraordinary level of floor. Reardon does not have blow-up games on the titles he knows.

The weak list is all old and all short:

• Count-down, 0.371 over 12 games, a 34.6% win rate
• Spirit of 76, 0.398 over 11 games
• Eight Ball Champ, 0.400 over 11 games
• Nugent, 0.406 over 8 games

Note that Spirit of 76 is the top machine on Steven Skochinski's list at 0.857. The same game, the same rooms, a 0.46 gap in score.

Wins

• LITT April 2024 Open, 71 players
• Broken Clock 3-Strike, April, 41 players
• LITT Summer Recreational League #4, 40 players
• LITT Summer Recreational League #6, 38 players
• JBB's November Strikes, 34 players, at 56 Brewing

Twenty-two outright wins and six shared firsts. The 71-player LITT open in April 2024 is one of the seven largest outright field wins anybody in this year's top 25 has recorded.

Right now

Form is flat at 67% against a 66% baseline. His last tracked result was ninth of 20 at the Super Ball XL finals on September 19, and his entry streak reads two months after a 31-month run.

If you draw him

Any late-70s or early-80s Bally. Count-down, Eight Ball Champ or Nugent, and Spirit of 76 if it is free.

Keep well away from Deadpool and Jurassic Park. Sixty-one games with two fourth places is the strongest argument in his file.

The scouting report runs the comparison against whatever is actually on the floor. The other 2026 top 25 profiles are here.