Rules Question - Why

The BCA Pool League (CSI) rules have a very useful “applied rulings” that does this - probably from issues that have arisen at their events or questions from leagues. I often look at it when weird issues arise (eg whether a ball is “frozen” to a rail when it is only touching fibers from the rail).
That's a good resource, but one problem is that the applied rulings have to be worded at least as carefully and clearly as the rules themselves, or players will misinterpret them.

Matchroom, WNT, Mosconi Cup, and American Pro Pool

Not so. Over his 18 years at the Mosconi Cup, Shane's record is actually a bit better than the aggregate record of the other players on those 18 USA teams: https://forums.azbilliards.com/thre...yed-on-either-team.464772/page-4#post-8007067

For singles and doubles matches combined, he was in more wins than losses in 8 of the 18 years, more losses than wins in 8 years, and an equal number of each in 2 years.

Here is Shane's Mosconi Cup Record in matches won and lost each year -- Singles, Doubles

2007 -- 2-1, 1-1​
2008 -- 1-2, 0-2​
2009 -- 2-1, 1-1​
2010 -- 1-1, 1-2​
2011 -- 2-1, 1-2​
2012 -- 1-2, 2-0​
2013 -- 0-1, 2-0​
2014 -- 0-3, 1-2​
2015 -- 1-2, 2-1​
2016 -- 0-1, 0-3​
2017 -- 1-1, 0-3​
2018 -- 2-1, 2-1​
2019 -- 2-2, 3-0​
2020 -- 1-2, 0-3​
2021 -- 0-4, 1-2​
2022 -- 0-2, 4-0​
2023 -- 1-0, 1-1​
2024 -- 0-1, 0-2​
Totals -- 17-28 (winning percentage 38%), 22-26 (46%)​
In the Team matches for those 18 years, Team USA and Team Europe each won 10 matches.​

If we look at the 23 matches in the last 10 years, Shanes effective opponent rating is 832, and he would be expected to be a slight favorite overall. In those matches he won 79 games and lost 93. That's the expected performance of a player rated 808.

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