Stats -- Accu-Stats Make-It-Happen One-Pocket Invitational, June 2015

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Here are some statistics from the 2015 Accu-Stats Make-It-Happen One-Pocket Invitational event played at Sandcastle Billiards in Edison, NJ, with pay-per-view streaming by Accu-Stats.

This was a 6-player event, with 15 round-robin matches (races to 3) followed by a playoff match between the 2 players with the best records.

The conditions included: Diamond 9-foot table with pro-cut pockets, Simonis 860 cloth, Aramith Tournament balls with a measles cue ball, wooden triangle rack, alternating breaks, re-break if a ball is made on the break (happened only once), 60-second shot clock with one 60-second extension per rack (only one violation happened), and 3 fouls in a row is loss of game (did not happen),

The 16 matches were as follows:

Thurs., June 25 -- Justin Hall defeated Alex Pagulayan 3-1, Danny Smith d. Shane Van Boening 3-2, Efren Reyes d. Scott Frost 3-2, and Van Boening d. Pagulayan 3-0.​
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Fri., June 26 -- Smith d. Frost 3-2, Reyes d. Hall 3-0, Van Boening d. Frost 3-1, and Smith d. Pagulayan 3-2​
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Sat., June 27 -- Frost d. Hall 3-1, Reyes d. Pagulayan 3-0, Van Boening d. Hall 3-1, and Smith d. Reyes 3-2​
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Sun., June 28 -- Frost d. Pagulayan 3-2, Hall d. Smith 3-2, Reyes d. Van Boening 3-2, and Reyes d. Smith 3-1 (finals)​

Records in round-robin play (5 matches per player).
Reyes -- 4-1 in matches, 14-7 in games, 133-84 in ball count​
Smith -- 4-1, 14-11, 126-116​
Van Boening -- 3-2, 13-8, 123-82​
Frost -- 2-3, 11-12, 100-129​
Hall -- 2-3, 8-12, 87-118​
Pagulayan -- 0-5, 5-15, 87-127​

Games won by breaker in round-robin play
Reyes -- 8 of 11 (73%)​
Smith -- 7 of 13 (54%)​
Van Boening -- 6 of 9 (67%)​
Frost -- 7 of 13 (54%)​
Hall -- 4 of 9 (44%)​
Pagulayan -- 1 of 10 (10%)
Total -- 33 of 65 (51%)​

Playoff match -- won by Reyes 3-1 over Smith, with the total ball count in Reyes' favor 24-16. Smith won the lag; Reyes won on 2 of 2 breaks, Smith won on 1 of 2 breaks.

Matches won by winner of lag -- 8 of 16 (50%)

High run-outs -- 8-and-outs in round-robin play by Reyes (4), Frost (4), Van Boening (4), Smith (3), and Pagulayan (1). None by Hall. In addition, Reyes had one in the finals.

Match lengths (measured from lag until last ball is pocketed or conceded, including racking and time outs) -- including playoff match
Longest in total length (140 min.) and in average minutes per game (28) -- Reyes d. Van Boening 3-2​
Shortest in total length (32 min.) and in average minutes per game (11) -- Reyes d. Pagulayan 3-0​
Average match length -- 87 min.​
Average minutes per game -- 20​

Average match score -- 3 - 1.3

Breaks from breaker's right side of table -- 68 of 69 (99%). [At least I noticed only one from the left -- by Pagulayan in the third game of his match with Smith.]
 
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spartan said:
Thanks Atlarge
But I tot Alex lost his first match to Hall on Thur 25 June
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You are correct, I reversed the names (but counted it correctly in the stats). I made the edit. Let me know if you find anything else.
 
8 of the 16 matches went hill/hill. Did the winner of the lag, who broke in the final game, win the match? 4 yes, 4 no.
 
sent you a greenie for taking the time to record and post the stats:thumbup:
 
As always, thanks for keeping the stats. It really adds to these matches.


Eric
 
The old Magician still has it. I noticed in the first day when they broke for dinner he stayed and practiced on that table. Thanks for the recaps.
 
Thanks!

This is great info, looks like the break wasn't as big for most of the players as it was once thought to be.
 
I find stats very interesting, they tell us a lot about not only the players but also about the strength of other contributing factors. Great work and much appreciated.

Bill Incardona
 
wincardona said:
I find stats very interesting, they tell us a lot about not only the players but also about the strength of other contributing factors. Great work and much appreciated.

Bill Incardona
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Thanks, Bill. I certainly enjoyed your commentary.
 
A few misc. observations:

- It surprised me that Frost and Pagulayan each lost their first 3 matches (and then Pagulayan all 5) after their 102-game marathon ending a few days earlier.

- Pagulayan won only one game on his own break!

- All 5 of Smith's round-robin matches went hill/hill.

- Reyes played in the 3 longest matches and 2 of the 3 shortest matches.

- The breaker won just 52% of the games on his own break (36 of 69, including the playoff). Conventional wisdom is that the breaker has a much greater advantage than that in one-pocket. I looked back at my notes on all of the streamed one-pocket matches I have watched over the past 5 years from the DCC and the Southern Classic (which were also all races to 3), and the breaker won about 60% of those games.

- In the round-robin matches, 3rd-place Van Boening had a considerably better ball-count differential (for vs. against) than 2nd-place Smith. Reyes was the leader on that measure.

- 5 right-handed players and 1 lefty, yet they all chose the pocket to their left (as they broke) every time except one (unless I didn't notice some others). I wonder what the split is (left pocket vs. right) more generally in one-pocket history and for lefties vs. righties. I don't have any stats on that.
 
AtLarge said:
A few misc. observations:

- It surprised me that Frost and Pagulayan each lost their first 3 matches (and then Pagulayan all 5) after their 102-game marathon ending a few days earlier.

- Pagulayan won only one game on his own break!

- All 5 of Smith's round-robin matches went hill/hill.

- Reyes played in the 3 longest matches and 2 of the 3 shortest matches.

- The breaker won just 52% of the games on his own break (36 of 69, including the playoff). Conventional wisdom is that the breaker has a much greater advantage than that in one-pocket. I looked back at my notes on all of the streamed one-pocket matches I have watched over the past 5 years from the DCC and the Southern Classic (which were also all races to 3), and the breaker won about 60% of those games.

- In the round-robin matches, 3rd-place Van Boening had a considerably better ball-count differential (for vs. against) than 2nd-place Smith. Reyes was the leader on that measure.

- 5 right-handed players and 1 lefty, yet they all chose the pocket to their left (as they broke) every time except one (unless I didn't notice some others). I wonder what the split is (left pocket vs. right) more generally in one-pocket history and for lefties vs. righties. I don't have any stats on that.
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Conventional wisdom in the 70s said the break is worth a ball and a half...your 60% stats
reinforces that thinking.
My guess in this tournament is that they broke to the wrong hole....from what I could see
on the stream, the table favored the right hand pocket.....
...part of the edge of having the break is picking the pocket.
 
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