Making a reliable number based ranking of every top 10 player in open era

Dropshot777

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I am planning on creating an equation to calculate a ranking list consisting of every YE top 10 player in the open era. So far my draft equation awards 5 points for every week spent at number 1 as well as 3 points for every week in their longest consecutive streak at number one, 5 points for every grand slam title, 3 points for each gs final, 3 points for every 1000 title, and 1 point for every title below 1000. I will also subtract their career high ranking times 5 from the score and to give active players an advantage, subtract the players age. It would be a huge help if someone could provide me with a list of every player to reach the YE top 10 and I am also open to any suggestions.

Thank you!
 
2000-2010

1.Kuerten
2.Safin
3.Sampras
4.Norman
5.Kafelnikov
6.Agassi
7.Hewitt
8.Corretja
9.Enqvist
10.Henman
11.J.C.Ferrero
12.Grosjean
13.Rafter
14.Haas
15.Moya
16.Federer
17.Novak
18.Costa
19.Roddick
20.Coria
21.Schuttler
22.Nalbandian
23.Philippoussis
24.Gaudio
25.Nadal
26.Davydenko
27.Ljubicic
28.Blake
29.Robredo
30.Ancic
31.Gonzalez
32.Djokovic
33.Ferrer
34.Gasquet
35.Murray
36.Tsonga
37.Simon
38.Del Potro
39.Soderling
40.Verdasco
 
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2010-2020

1.Berdych
2.Youzhny
3.Fish
4.Tipsarevic
5.Almagro
6.Wawrinka
7.Nishikori
8.Raonic
9.Cilic
10.Monfils
11.Thiem
12.Dimitrov
13.Zverev
14.Goffin
15.Sock
16.P.C.Busta
17.Anderson
18.Isner
19.Medvedev
20.Tsitsipas
21.Berrettini
22.R.B.Agut
 
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2020-2024

1.Rublev
2.Schwartzman
3.Ruud
4.Hurkacz
5.Sinner
6.Alcaraz
7.A.Aliassime
8.Fritz
9.Rune
10.De Minaur
 
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Nice project, but how will you calculate masters series pre 1990(the year they came into existence)

As far as getting a full list of top 10 players, doesn’t tennis abstract have this?
 
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Here is the finished list: ['Miloslav Mecir', 'Sebastien Grosjean', 'Berdych', 'Bill Scanlon', 'Jakob Hlasek', 'Tomas Berdych', 'Juan Martin Del Potro', 'Andy Murray', 'Wawrinka', 'Tsitsipas', 'Fish', 'Juan Aguilera', 'Andrei Medvedev', 'Andy Roddick', 'Raul Ramirez', 'Alberto Mancini', 'Harold Solomon', 'Roger Federer', 'Bjorn Borg', 'Arthur Ashe', 'Sergi Bruguera', 'Eddie Dibbs', 'Ruud', 'Gustavo Kuerten', 'Stanislas Wawrinka', 'David Ferrer', 'Michael Stich', 'Jiri Novak', 'Karol Kucera', 'Yevgeny Kafelnikov', 'John Alexander', 'Gaston Gaudio', 'Gael Monfils', 'Thierry Tulasne', 'Nicolas Lapentti', 'Roscoe Tanner', 'Marcos Baghdatis', 'Eliot Teltscher', 'Todd Martin', 'Guillermo Vilas', 'Ken Rosewall', 'Martin Jaite', 'Jose-Luis Clerc', 'Marin Cilic', 'Rune', 'John Newcombe', 'Nikolay Davydenko', 'Fernando Gonzalez', 'Tipsarevic', 'Victor Pecci', 'Joakim Nystrom', 'Goran Ivanisevic', 'Ivan Ljubicic', 'Rod Laver', 'Fritz', 'John McEnroe', 'Henrik Sundstrom', 'Tommy Robredo', 'Cedric Pioline', 'Greg Rusedski', 'Ilie Nastase', 'Andre Agassi', 'Lleyton Hewitt', 'Aaron Krickstein', 'Johan Kriek', 'Stefan Edberg', 'Jay Berger', 'Felix Mantilla', 'Jonas Svensson', 'Jan Kodes', 'Anders Jarryd', 'Brad Gilbert', 'Gene Mayer', 'James Blake', 'Yannick Noah', 'Marcelo Rios', 'Marat Safin', 'Fernando Verdasco', 'R.B.Agut', 'Isner', 'P.C.Busta', 'Tim Henman', 'Guillermo Canas', 'Rainer Schuettler', 'Wayne Ferreira', 'Arnaud Clement', 'Paradorn Srichaphan', 'Tom Okker', 'Corrado Barazzutti', 'Peter McNamara', 'Pat Cash', 'Dick Stockton', 'Karel Novacek', 'Alex Corretja', 'Andrei Chesnokov', 'Patrick Rafter', 'Manuel Orantes', 'Guy Forget', 'Adriano Panatta', 'Mario Ancic', 'Almagro', 'Cilic', 'Boris Becker', 'Brian Teacher', 'Jo-Wilfried Tsonga', 'Brian Gottfried', 'Medvedev', 'Sock', 'Juan Carlos Ferrero', 'Richard Krajicek', 'Thomas Muster', 'Jim Courier', 'Novak Djokovic', 'Thomas Enqvist', 'Hurkacz', 'De Minaur', 'Alcaraz', 'Pete Sampras', 'Nishikori', 'Anderson', 'Joachim Johansson', 'Mikhail Youzhny', 'Nicolas Massu', 'Rublev', 'Guillermo Coria', 'Tony Roche', 'Sinner', 'Tim Mayotte', 'Alex Metreveli', 'Zverev', 'Magnus Larsson', 'Andres Gomez', 'Magnus Norman', 'A.Aliassime', 'Rafael Nadal', 'Marc Rosset', 'Vitas Gerulaitis', 'Kent Carlsson', 'Stan Smith', 'Nicolas Kiefer', 'Emilio Sanchez', 'Henri LeConte', 'Thomas Johansson', 'Mariano Puerta', 'Gilles Simon', 'Thiem', 'Radek Stepanek', 'Albert Costa', 'Carlos Moya', 'Richard Gasquet', 'Robin Soderling', 'Dimitrov', 'Tom Gorman', 'Jonas Bjorkman', 'Mats Wilander', 'Carlos Costa', 'Schwartzman', 'Goffin', 'Sandy Mayer', 'Jose Higueras', 'Ivan Lendl', 'Jimmy Arias', 'Petr Korda', 'Peter Fleming', 'Mikael Pernfors', 'Berrettini', 'David Nalbandian', 'Michael Chang', 'Magnus Gustafsson', 'Wojtek Fibak', 'Monfils', 'Kevin Curren', 'Raonic', 'Jimmy Connors', 'Mark Philippoussis', 'Tommy Haas', 'Youzhny', 'Alberto Berasategui']
 
Here is the completed rankings. This is purely achievement based with too much with maybe a bit too much weight placed on consecutive weeks at no 1:
  1. Roger Federer: 4013 Points
  1. Jimmy Connors: 3937 Points
  2. Novak Djokovic: 3549 Points
  3. Ivan Lendl: 2941 Points
  4. Pete Sampras: 2549 Points
  5. Rafael Nadal: 2091 Points
  6. John McEnroe: 1581 Points
  7. Bjorn Borg: 1198 Points
  8. Andre Agassi: 1189 Points
  9. Stefan Edberg: 1095 Points
  10. Lleyton Hewitt: 1078 Points
  11. Jim Courier: 855 Points
  12. Andy Murray: 729 Points
  13. Ilie Nastase: 647 Points
  14. Gustavo Kuerten: 640 Points
  15. Mats Wilander: 432 Points
  16. Boris Becker: 356 Points
  17. Carlos Alcaraz: 340 Points
  18. Daniil Medvedev: 294 Points
  19. John Newcombe: 276 Points
  20. Andy Roddick: 258 Points
  21. Marat Safin: 189 Points
  22. Thomas Muster: 165 Points
  23. Rod Laver: 163 Points
  24. Juan Carlos Ferrero: 161 Points
  25. Ken Rosewall: 138 Points
  26. Yevgeny Kafelnikov: 136 Points
  27. Marcelo Rios: 118 Points
  28. Jannik Sinner: 102 Points
  29. Goran Ivanisevic: 86 Points
  30. Patrick Rafter: 77 Points
  31. Carlos Moya & Guillermo Vilas: 73 Points
  32. Michael Chang: 67 Points
  33. Dominic Thiem: 66 Points
  34. Stan Wawrinka: 59 Points
  35. Marin Cilic: 54 Points
  36. Arthur Ashe: 50 Points
  37. Jan Kodes: 49 Points
  38. Alexander Zverev: 45 Points
  39. Johan Kriek: 44 Points
  40. Juan Martin Del Potro: 42 Points
  41. Stan Smith: 39 Points
  42. Yannick Noah & Alex Corretja: 38 Points
  43. Tom Okker & Thomas Enqvist: 37 Points
  44. Andres Gomez: 36 Points
  45. Nikolay Davydenko, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga & Tony Roche: 35 Points
  46. Brian Gottfried, Harold Solomon & Richard Krajicek: 34 Points
  47. Stefanos Tsitsipas & Eddie Dibbs: 33 Points
  48. Tomas Berdych: 32 Points
  49. Raul Ramirez & Petr Korda: 31 Points
  50. Richard Gasquet: 30 Points
  51. David Ferrer, Jose Luis Clerc, Andrei Medvedev & Casper Ruud: 29 Points
  52. Brad Gilbert: 28 Points
  53. Vitas Gerulaitis & Kei Nishikori: 27 Points
  54. Michael Stich & Albert Costa: 25 Points
  55. Robin Soderling & Matteo Berrettini: 22 Points
  56. Guillermo Coria, Tommy Haas, Miloslav Mecir, Gael Monfils, Tim Henman, John Isner, Andres Gimeno, Adriano Panatta & Andrey Rublev: 21 Points
  57. Milos Raonic & Roscoe Tanner: 20 Points
  58. David Nalbandian, Ivan Ljubicic, Mark Philippoussis, Kevin Anderson, & Cedric Pioline: 19 Points
  59. Todd Martin & Tim Mayotte: 18 Points
  60. Gene Mayer, Mikhail Youzhny, Guy Forget: 17 Points
  61. Grigor Dimitrov: 16 Points
  62. Henri Leconte: 15 Points
  63. David Goffin: 14 Points
  64. Fernando Verdasco: 13 Points
  65. Taylor Fritz: 12 Points
  66. Hubert Hurkacz & Cliff Richey: 11 Points
  67. Cameron Norrie: 10 Points
  68. Karen Khachanov & Marty Riessen: 9 Points
 
Props for putting in the time on this, but I'm just not feeling the formula. It looks like a formula designed to place Roger (obviously, he had an amazing career) at #1.
How does a system primarily based on weeks at #1 and slams have someone with fewer slams and many fewer weeks at #1 well ahead of the person that has significantly more in both categories?

Why do you add 3 points per week of the longest streak at #1? Seems like you're just forcing results.

At what point are you subtracting their age, and why exactly?
 
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