Call it whatever you want but so far I will call it embarrassing

GoldCrown said:

I hit 2 good balls this AM. I stepped on a rake

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Good shootin' - not many good ways to hit those...

pj
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I have listened to all of the podcasts to date - all were very interesting. I realize now how much pool all of these people actually played - well beyond even the most serious amateur who held a full time job.
You have to play that much to understand all the small things that end up making the difference at critical points in any game. Shows you how hard this game really is at the highest levels and how great these pros were at the game.

jsp said:

(...) , but I think the concept of the ROW team was a mistake.

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Team ROW does not sound nice either in any way. Would not know what else to call it, but it doesn't have a nice ring to it.

I hit 2 good balls this AM. I stepped on a rake

the older tables and balls did not open much and you had to play a different game of more precise position and softer shots.

with balls closer together putting the cue ball say 10 inches getting it very close with in an inch might mean being able to make or not make the next ball.
with open tables you can be much farther off course.

one big advantage of using a standard or close to it cue, is that your game wont be thrown off if you have to use some other cue for a reason as you may not have yours.

skip100 said:

Nice idea. IMO this seems a little aggressive in weighting the top players and is basically a measurement of the top few players with some stray extras thrown in. Players 24 through 64 combined count the same as Player 1, which seems more like "barely caring" than "caring somewhat".

How about a harmonic exponent? 1 / i^p. p = 0.7-0.8 could be a good middle ground.

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Ding Ding Ding for skip100's intuition!

The optimum exponent is 0.77, meaning the optimum influence of the 2nd player is 59% rather then 50% of the top player and the optimum influence of the 10th player is one sixth rather than one tenth that of the top player.

fedor here, fedor there. asia is so deep in top talent the rest of the world may need a ball handicap for it to be competitive. taiwan just won the world pairs event with their b-team. wu jiaqing, zheng xiaohuai and half a dozen other chinese are probably 820+ if they were to play american pool for a year. ko brothers, of course, are both double world champions. and for the real fargo nerds; ameer ali is also asian.

anyway. hope they play better tomorrow and make some kind of match of it.

trob said:

So every table he’s played on for 25 years has given him a bad break? He said this has been going on playing for 25 years lol naaaa it’s him not the table.

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It costs me nothing to be optimistic

trob said:

So every table he’s played on for 25 years has given him a bad break? He said this has been going on playing for 25 years lol naaaa it’s him not the table.

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Every table???

Never said that. I've always referred to my Gold Crown IV.

I've played on Nick Varner's Gold Crown V and the spreads after the break were better. The same goes for other tables that I have played on as well.