Here are some aggregate break statistics from the 2017 US Open 8-Ball Championship, played July 29-31 at Griff's Bar & Billiards in Las Vegas. The promoter, CueSports International, provided pay-per-view streaming. This 52-player, double-elimiiination event was won by Alex Pagulayan.
Conditions -- The conditions for this call-shot 8-Ball event included:
The 18 streamed matches (232 games) were as follows (shown in the order in which they were played). These 18 matches represented 18% of the event's total of 99 matches played.
Saturday, July 29
Sunday, July 30
Monday, July 31
Overall results -- The breaker made at least one ball and did not foul 68% of the time (157 of 232), won 56% of the games (130 of 232), and broke and ran 41% of the games (96 of 232).
Here's a more detailed breakdown of the 232 games.
Break-and-run games: The 96 break-and-run games represented 41% of all 232 games, 74% of the 130 games won by the breaker, and 61% of the 157 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 96 break-and-run games consisted of 1 alternate-break 5-pack (Van Boening), 1 alternate-break 4-pack (Kiamco), 6 alternate-break 3-packs, 16 alternate-break 2-packs, and 37 singles.
8-balls on the break: The 8-ball was made on the break just once (0.4% of the 232 games). The breaker chose to spot it and continue shooting rather than to re-break.
Conditions -- The conditions for this call-shot 8-Ball event included:
- Diamond 9-foot table with 4¼" 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..
The 18 streamed matches (232 games) were as follows (shown in the order in which they were played). These 18 matches represented 18% of the event's total of 99 matches played.
Saturday, July 29
Manny Perez d. Mitch Ellerman 8-4
Roberto Gomez d. Donny Mills 8-2
Skyler Woodward d. Billy Thorpe 8-4
Rodney Morris d. Chris Melling 8-3
Thorsten Hohmann d. Jesse Bowman 8-4
Josh Roberts d. Dennis Hatch 8-7
Sunday, July 30
Warren Kiamco d. Thorpe 8-5
Hatch d. Vilmos Foldes 8-5
Hohmann d. Kim Laaksonen 8-4
Vinnie Calabrese d. Nick Malaj 8-7
Shane Van Boening d. Lee Vann Corteza 8-6
Dennis Orcollo d. Alex Pagulayanl 8-7
Monday, July 31
Hohmann d. Morris 8-1
Corteza d. Calabrese 8-5
Van Boening d. Orcollo 8-4 (hot-seat match)
Pagulayan d. Corteza 8-3
Pagulayan d. Orcollo 8-6 (semifinals)
Pagulayan d. Van Boening 10-9 (finals)
Overall results -- The breaker made at least one ball and did not foul 68% of the time (157 of 232), won 56% of the games (130 of 232), and broke and ran 41% of the games (96 of 232).
Here's a more detailed breakdown of the 232 games.
Breaker made at least one ball and did not foul:
Breaker won the game: 110 (47% of the 232 games)
Breaker lost the game: 47 (20%)
Breaker fouled on the break:
Breaker won the game: 5 (2%)
Breaker lost the game: 22 (9%)
Breaker broke dry (without fouling):
Breaker won the game: 15 (6%)
Breaker lost the game: 33 (14%)
Therefore, whereas the breaker won 56% (130 of 232) of all games,
He won 70% (110 of 157) of the games in which he made at least one ball on the break and did not foul.
He won 19% (5 of 27) of the games in which he fouled on the break.
He won 31% (15 of 48) of the games in which he broke dry but did not foul.
He won 27% (20 of 75) of the games in which he either fouled on the break or broke dry without fouling.
Break-and-run games: The 96 break-and-run games represented 41% of all 232 games, 74% of the 130 games won by the breaker, and 61% of the 157 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 96 break-and-run games consisted of 1 alternate-break 5-pack (Van Boening), 1 alternate-break 4-pack (Kiamco), 6 alternate-break 3-packs, 16 alternate-break 2-packs, and 37 singles.
8-balls on the break: The 8-ball was made on the break just once (0.4% of the 232 games). The breaker chose to spot it and continue shooting rather than to re-break.
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