Back to the Crucible: predicting snooker's 2026 champion

A year in the making The 2026 World Snooker Championship is under way at the Crucible in Sheffield — a natural point to rerun the forecast from last April , when we put Elo on five decades of results and ran ten million tournament simulations. John Higgins led our list at 13.14%; Zhao Xintong was fourth at 10.58% but took the 2025 title and has stayed at or near the top of the ratings since. The…