Frosty said:

They could give a rats ass about the quality of the experience for the players or fans.

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That's ridiculous. In truth, unless Matchroom carefully manages production costs, they cannot a) afford to produce new events, and b) afford to pay out the big prize funds with which they are now associated (Biado won a $250,000 first prize in July in Jeddah, Yapp $100,000 in August in Atlantic City.)

To manage production costs, they must make good deals with venues. They are not always able to produce events where they might prefer. While financial considerations may outweigh the importance of the fan or player experience, Matchroom has done more to improve the quality of the fan and player experience than any event prodcuer this century.

Poolmanis said:

@Bob Jewett
You seem to have all books..

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I PM’ed bob
He did not have one for sale

jimmyg said:

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Always seems like a good idea at the beginning.

Like going to the billiard room.

Texas Carom Club said:

You probably can’t read it

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I speak mathematics ….

Maybe you just think you feel them. Take 3 numbered balls and three CBs from different sets and put them in a rack. Now
keep your eyes closed or blindfold yourself and mix them around in the rack. Feel each one and put what you think are numbered balls to one side and CBs to other side. Open your eyes and see if you’re correct

fuggles said:

How many of those 22,000 games are actually used in his fargo rate calculation? I'm pretty sure there is a time decay in the calculation.

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The FargoRate optimization uses all the games but pays far more attention to recent games. The really old games are for all practical purposes ignored. We can still estimate the performance in 500-game chucks, though. You can see that for Morra--you're going to estimate a little below 800 however you treat old games. The fluctuations are larger than any actual drift. Here are a dozen years.

skor said:

might work on a toy bar box, not on a real pool table
You might end up making a ball but more clusters and a bad spread with little chance of running out.

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I played 15 years of 8 ball on 9' tables. Second ball break worked fine for me. Ran out plenty of racks.