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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=4–5 |date=July 1985 }}</ref>
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 entry 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 |access-date=27 April 2024 |archive-date=10 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240510213920/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-observer-seeds-that-are-not-always-h/146125777/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[Steve Davis]] retained the number one position that he had held in the previous two ranking lists, while [[Cliff Thorburn]] moved up from second to third, exchanging places with [[Tony Knowles (snooker player)|Tony Knowles]].{{sfn|Hayton|Dee|2004|p=120}}{{sfn|Everton|1985a|pages=8–9}} The 1985 World champion [[Dennis Taylor]] moved up from 11th to fourth.{{sfn|Everton|1985a|pages=8–9}} Of the top 16 players from the previous year, the largest drops were by [[Eddie Charlton]], from sixth to 12th, and by Spencer, who went from 13th to 20th.{{sfn|Everton|1985a|pages=8–9}}
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== Rankings ==
[[File:Dennis Taylor and his glasses (cropped).jpg|thumb|alt=A man wearing large glasses|[[Dennis Taylor]] ''(pictured in 2008)'' rose seven places in the rankings, to fourth, after winning the [[1985 World Snooker Championship]]]]
The rankings for the 1985/1986 season are shown in the tables below.{{sfn|Everton|1985|pages=14–15, 86–87}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Ranking History|url=http://www.snooker.org/rnk/history.asp?sort=1985/1986&order=asc|website=Snooker.org|accessdate=26 April 2024|archive-date=8 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230208075400/https://www.snooker.org/rnk/history.asp?sort=1985/1986&order=asc|url-status=live}}</ref>
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