Here are some aggregate break statistics from the 2016 US Open 8-Ball Championship, played the past three days at the Rio Las Vegas Resort & Casino. The promoter, CueSports International, provided pay-per-view streaming.
Conditions -- The conditions for this call-shot 8-Ball event included:
These stats are for all 13 streamed matches, which were 11% of the event's total matches:
Saturday, July 23
Overall results -- The breaker made at least one ball and did not foul 76% of the time (149 of 197), won 64% of the games (127 of 197), and broke and ran 53% of the games (104 of 197).
Here's a more detailed breakdown of the 197 games.
Break-and-run games: The 104 break-and-run games represented 53% of all 197 games, 82% of the 127 games won by the breaker, and 70% of the 149 games in which the break was successful (made a ball and didn't foul).
With alternating breaks, B&R "packages" of the normal type are not possible. But we can still look at the breaks of a given player and see how many he ran on his own successive breaks, and we can call these "alternate-break packages." The 104 break-and-run games consisted of 1 alternate-break 8-pack (Van Boening), 1 alternate-break 7-pack (Deuel), 1 alternate-break 5-pack (Van Boening), 3 alternate-break 4-packs, 4 alternate break 3-packs, 18 alternate-break 2-packs, and 24 singles.
8-balls on the break: The 8-ball was made on the break 6 times (3.0% of the 197 games). The breaker chose to spot it 5 times and to re-break once.
Conditions -- The conditions for this call-shot 8-Ball event included:
- Diamond 7-foot table with 4½" pro-cut corner pockets;
- Simonis 860 Tournament Blue cloth;
- Cyclop TV balls, including the red-spot cue ball;
- jump cues allowed;
- breaker racks using the Magic Rack template;
- alternating breaks from anywhere behind the head string;
- table open after the break;
- ball in hand anywhere on the table after a foul on the break;
- cue-ball fouls only;
- for an 8-ball made on the break, it is breaker's choice to spot the 8-ball and continue shooting or to re-break.
These stats are for all 13 streamed matches, which were 11% of the event's total matches:
Saturday, July 23
Francisco Bustamante defeated Robb Saez 9-3
Rodney Morris d. Mike Dechaine 9-7
Oscar Dominguez d. Shaun Wilkie 9-8
Thorsten Hohmann d. Justin Bergman 9-8
Sunday, July 24Josh Roberts d. Matt Edwards 9-6
Corey Deuel d. Skyler Woodward 9-5
Shane Van Boening d. Shane McMinn 9-5
Rory Hendrickson d. Jesse Bowman 9-8 (hot-seat match)
Van Boening d. Bustamante 9-8
Monday, July 25Roberts d. Dechaine 9-4
Van Boening d. Roberts 9-6
Van Boening d. Bowman 9-4 (semifinals)
Van Boening d. Hendrickson 11-6 (finals)
Overall results -- The breaker made at least one ball and did not foul 76% of the time (149 of 197), won 64% of the games (127 of 197), and broke and ran 53% of the games (104 of 197).
Here's a more detailed breakdown of the 197 games.
Breaker made at least one ball and did not foul:
Breaker won the game: 112 (57% of the 197 games)
Breaker lost the game: 37 (19%)
Breaker fouled on the break:
Breaker won the game: 2 (1%)
Breaker lost the game: 15 (8%)
Breaker broke dry (without fouling):
Breaker won the game: 13 (7%)
Breaker lost the game: 18 (9%)
Therefore, whereas the breaker won 64% (127) of all 197 games,
He won 75% (112 of 149) of the games in which he made at least one ball on the break and did not foul.
He won 12% (2 of 17) of the games in which he fouled on the break.
He won 42% (13 of 31) of the games in which he broke dry but did not foul.
He won 31% (15 of 48) of the games in which he either fouled on the break or broke dry without fouling.
Break-and-run games: The 104 break-and-run games represented 53% of all 197 games, 82% of the 127 games won by the breaker, and 70% of the 149 games in which the break was successful (made a ball and didn't foul).
With alternating breaks, B&R "packages" of the normal type are not possible. But we can still look at the breaks of a given player and see how many he ran on his own successive breaks, and we can call these "alternate-break packages." The 104 break-and-run games consisted of 1 alternate-break 8-pack (Van Boening), 1 alternate-break 7-pack (Deuel), 1 alternate-break 5-pack (Van Boening), 3 alternate-break 4-packs, 4 alternate break 3-packs, 18 alternate-break 2-packs, and 24 singles.
8-balls on the break: The 8-ball was made on the break 6 times (3.0% of the 197 games). The breaker chose to spot it 5 times and to re-break once.
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