Derby videos 2017

Dennis -- I don't know whether you are able to change any of the video titles at this point, but Hohmann's run labeled as a 98 was a 112.

[Super to have all these videos to watch. Thanks.]

Jayson Shaw clearly wins the competition for most balls made per minute.

skip100 said:

Jayson Shaw clearly wins the competition for most balls made per minute.

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He sure did. Four of his 5 runs in those videos were at a pace of over 4 balls per minute.* For all 5 of the runs combined, his average was about 4.3 balls per minute, or about 14 seconds per ball.

No one else in any of those videos hit the 4 balls/min. pace (Orcollo was close in one of his runs).

An interesting comparison -- In his autobiography, Willie Mosconi said his famous run of 526 balls took two hours and ten minutes. That's just a tad more than 4.0 balls per minute, or just under 15 seconds per ball. So, if that accounting is accurate, Willie was almost as quick as Jason was at DCC this year.


*For the length of the runs, I measured from when the first break shot was struck until the cue ball stopped rolling on the last successful shot. So it excludes any preparation time for the first shot, and excludes the time for the run-ending shot, but includes time for racking successfully broken racks (except the first).