garczar said:

Chinese Palmer cue. worth a couple hundred, maybe.

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tomker said:

Assuming two players, Player A is +50 Fargo vs. Player B.

In a race to 9, if Player A is down 0-4, his odds of winning are 31.47%.

In the Predator BO3 format, if player A loses the first set 0-4, his odds of winning are still 46.54%.

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macbookmike said:

... , it seems the angle in really equals angle out without the top spin affecting the cue ball after rail contact....

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tomker said:

It's easy to complain about the shootout but if a match is hill-hill, then the players have basically been playing as well as each other, and it seems like the winner of the match probably shouldn't be decided in a way that gives a huge advantage to the player who happens to be breaking for the last rack.

Other than a shootout, I don't know what else they could do. I suppose sudden-death sets of 2 racks where each player gets to break once?

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Bavafongoul said:

Heck, I’m even getting excited that a second wave is coming after DigiBall.

Am I the only one that noticed, albeit rather belatedly since I only discovered
this thread existed today, that Nate has a Shot Clock Display in the works?

DigiBall is like seeing Star Wars when it first was released. Will space exploration
lead to that future world? I dunno but it made millions of people curious & wonder.

I imagine eventually linking AI to where you can summon analytical information and
display it in different formats. Gosh, you may be able to ask for data via questions.

The future is wondrous and I won’t live long enough to see it all come to fruition. But
I see this as a portal that’s going to elevate pool instruction to the same degree as golf
and baseball with analytical and high speed video that was never anticipated for pool.

Get on board folks because the future has arrived and you can’t change it, delay it,
or defeat it but why would anyone want to. This is like tomorrow arrived today…..Wow.

So when I saw that Nate had a shot clock display under development, I got excited. Why?
I’ll finally get my biggest gripe about addressed. Rest assured, I’ll get one for playing matches.

i just hope it is digital, large enough to be easily seen, countdown display & audible warnings.
Slow play is so annoying and a lot of players don’t realize it applies to them but they’d deny it.

I don’t know what Nate’s developing, what stage he’s at or if I am missing the mark and he has
something different in mind. It just happens to be something that I’d like to become a standard.

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sjm said:

True, but Pia came 10th in 2025 at the Derby City 9ball out of 500 players in the open division. She'd have had a top five but for a double hill loss to Atencio in about Round 12. Of course, she doesn't play anything like a top male pro, but she has taken down more than a few of the top men at times.

Cinderella stories are nice, and this year, women's pool has brought us Margaret Fefilova-Styer and Pia Filler prevailing over the usual suspects at the women's majors. The talent pool is growing in women's pool.

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