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After the [[1982 World Snooker Championship]], two other tournaments – the [[International Open (snooker)|International Open]] and the [[Professional Players Tournament]] – which were open to all members of the WPBSA – carried ranking points. Points for world championship finishes from [[1983 World Snooker Championship|1983]] became worth double the previous tariff, with ten points for the winner, eight for the runner up, and so on.{{sfn|Everton|1985|pp=14–15}} In the [[1983–84 snooker season|1983/84 snooker season]], the [[Classic (snooker)|Lada Classic]] was added as a ranking tournament.{{sfn|Everton|1985|pp=14–15}} The UK Championship and Dulux British Open were added for to the ranking list with effect from the [[1984–85 snooker season|1984–85 season]], which meant that performances in those events were taken into account for the 1985/1986 rankings. In the same season, due to changes in sponsors, the Professional Players Tournament became the Rothmans Grand Prix, and the Lada Classic became the Mercantile Credit Classic.{{sfn|Morrison|1987|p=107}} The tournaments that counted towards the 1985/1986 were those which were open to all professional players over the preceding three seasons.{{sfn|Everton|1985|pages=14–15}}
Merit points were awarded to players who were required to compete in qualifying rounds of ranking tournaments and reached the last 32, with a full merit point awarded if this was achieved in the world championship, and half a merit point otherwise.{{sfn|Morrison|1987|p=107}}{{sfn|Everton|1985|pp=14–15}} No points were awarded to a player who did not win any matches in a given tournament: for example, a top 16 player seeded into the last 32 of the world championship would not win any merit points if they lost their first match.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=How they stand: official world rankings 1985 |magazine=[[Snooker Scene]] |publisher=Everton's News Agency |location=Birmingham |pages=18–19 |date=June 1984 }}</ref><ref name="SNSRANK">{{cite magazine |title=World rankings and how they earned them |magazine=[[Snooker Scene]] |publisher=Everton's News Agency |location=Birmingham |pages=
The journalist Janice Hale commented in March 1985 that as the ranking list was updated only annually, players such as [[John Spencer (snooker player)|John Spencer]] who had won only one match in the year since the 1984 World Championship, and [[Bill Werbeniuk]], who had not won any, were at an advantage over other players who had performed better in that time, as the top 16 received direct enty to the last-32 round of the [[1985 World Snooker Championship]], meaning that their minimum guaranteed prize money was higher.<ref>{{cite news |first=Janice |last=Hale |newspaper=The Observer |date=3 March 1985 |page=46 |title=Seeds that are not always hardy annuals |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-observer-seeds-that-are-not-always-h/146125777/ |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
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== Points tariff ==
In additional to standard ranking points awarded as per the table below, a "merit" point was awarded for losers in the last 32 of the World Championship, and a half merit point awarded to losers in the last 32 of other ranking tournaments. No points were awarded to a player who did not win any matches in a given tournament. (For example, a top 16 player [[seed (sports)|seeded]] into the last 32 of the world championship would not win any merit points if they lost their first match.){{sfn|Everton|1985|pages=14–15}} Merit points were only used to determine placings between players that had an equal opportunity to earn them. Players ranked from 77 to 102 had no ranking or merit points, with their positions determined by their performances in the 1985 World Snooker Championship, with frames won being taken into consideration if the round reached was equal.<ref name="
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