With the 2016 Mosconi Cup event coming up in 4 weeks, I thought it would be interesting again this year to examine the career Mosconi-Cup records of this year's players. The combined records for each player were compiled from individual-year match results on Wikipedia (all years there except 2014) and my own records.
Although I have not yet seen an official Matchroom announcement as to the wildcard picks for Team Europe, AzB posters have reported that they are Appleton and Ouschan. If that proves to be inaccurate, I will update this post accordingly.
Team USA will enter the event with a combined 24 years of Cup experience, compared to 21 years for Team Europe. Both teams have 2 highly experienced Cup players and 3 with no (Shaw) or limited experience.
For the following records, I counted a full win or loss for each player in each match (i.e., not splitting the point into fifths or sixths for teams matches, or thirds for trebles matches, or halves for doubles matches). So these numbers essentially answer the question: "In how many winning and losing matches was each player involved?"
Team USA
Team Europe
Another way of looking at the records is to count a full point for each player in a singles win or loss, a half a point for each player in a doubles win or loss, a third of a point for each player in a trebles (played only in 2006) win or loss, and one-fifth of a point (one-sixth in 2006 when the teams had 6 players) for each player in a team win or loss. So the following numbers essentially answer the question: "What numerical contribution has each player made to the overall Mosconi Cup match scores?"
Team USA
Team Europe
Although I have not yet seen an official Matchroom announcement as to the wildcard picks for Team Europe, AzB posters have reported that they are Appleton and Ouschan. If that proves to be inaccurate, I will update this post accordingly.
Team USA will enter the event with a combined 24 years of Cup experience, compared to 21 years for Team Europe. Both teams have 2 highly experienced Cup players and 3 with no (Shaw) or limited experience.
For the following records, I counted a full win or loss for each player in each match (i.e., not splitting the point into fifths or sixths for teams matches, or thirds for trebles matches, or halves for doubles matches). So these numbers essentially answer the question: "In how many winning and losing matches was each player involved?"
Team USA
- • Shane Van Boening (9 years -- 2007-2015) ..... 10-14 singles, 11-11 doubles, 4-5 teams, 25-30 total (winning percentage of 45%)
• Rodney Morris (9 years -- 2003-2008, 2010, 2011, 2013) ..... 9-8 singles, 11-15 doubles, 2-0 trebles, 3-4 teams, 25-27 total (48%)
• Mike Dechaine (3 years -- 2011, 2012, 2015) ..... 1-4 singles, 2-6 doubles, 2-1 teams, 5-11 total (31%)
• Justin Bergman (2 years -- 2014-2015) ..... 1-4 singles, 2-2 doubles, 1-1 teams, 4-7 total (36%)
• Skyler Woodward (1 year -- 2015) ..... 0-2 singles, 2-1 doubles, 1-0 teams, 3-3 total (50%)
• Team USA Total ..... 21-32 singles, 28-35 doubles, 2-0 trebles, 11-11 teams, 62-78 total (44%)
Team Europe
- • Niels Feijen (11 years -- 2001, 2004-2005, 2007-2009, 2011-2015) ..... 11-8 singles, 22-9 doubles, 4-4 teams, 37-21 total (64%)
• Darren Appleton (7 years -- 2009-2015) ..... 9-4 singles, 8-13 doubles, 4-3 teams, 21-20 total (51%)
• Mark Gray (2 years -- 2008, 2014) ..... 0-1 singles, 2-4 doubles, 2-0 teams, 4-5 total (44%)
• Albin Ouschan (1 year -- 2015) ..... 2-0 singles, 2-1 doubles, 0-1 teams, 4-2 total (67%)
• Jayson Shaw (0 years -- rookie)
• Team Europe Total ..... 22-13 singles, 34-27 doubles, 10-8 teams, 66-48 total (58%)
Another way of looking at the records is to count a full point for each player in a singles win or loss, a half a point for each player in a doubles win or loss, a third of a point for each player in a trebles (played only in 2006) win or loss, and one-fifth of a point (one-sixth in 2006 when the teams had 6 players) for each player in a team win or loss. So the following numbers essentially answer the question: "What numerical contribution has each player made to the overall Mosconi Cup match scores?"
Team USA
- • Van Boening ..... 16.3 - 20.5 (winning percentage 44%)
• Morris ..... 15.7 - 16.3 (49%)
• Dechaine ..... 2.4 - 7.2 (25%)
• Bergman ..... 2.2 - 5.2 (30%)
• Woodward ..... 1.2 - 2.5 (32%)
• Team USA Total ..... 37.8 - 51.7 (42%)
Team Europe
- • Feijen ..... 22.8 - 13.3 (63%)
• Appleton ..... 13.8 - 11.1 (55%)
• Gray ..... 1.4 - 3.0 (32%)
• Ouschan ..... 3.0 - 0.7 (81%)
• Shaw
• Team Europe Total ..... 41.0 - 28.1 (59%)