If you are creating some table hockey web pages you may be interested in displaying actual rank of selected players. You don't have to update ranking manually because this can be done by existing web service.

The only thing you need to know is identification number (ID) of the player whose rank you want to display. You can download list of IDs of all players saved at WR database.

You can get player's rank by using web service running at address

http://www.ithf.info/stiga/ithf/ranking/getrank.asmx/GetRank?ID=player's ID

It means that if you are interested e.g. in displaying Martin Arenlind's actual rank you can include into your page following address

http://www.ithf.info/stiga/ithf/ranking/getrank.asmx/GetRank?ID=280633

Including can be done by any script. For example at ASP page following code should be used.

set xmlhttp = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
uRL = "http://www.ithf.info/stiga/ithf/ranking/getrank.asmx/GetRank?ID=20021"
xmlhttp.open "GET", url, false
xmlhttp.send ""
Response.write xmlhttp.responseText
set xmlhttp = nothing

If you have any questions regarding using this web service don't hesitate to write to Stanislav Kraus.