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Jaden
sjm said:
Very true, but there's yet another issue. In winner's break format (used in nearly all of the events analyzed by AtLarge,) the better player is breaking more than half of the racks, so it, perforce, causes a slight increase in the "breaker wins the game" statistic.
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Yep, exactly. The successful breaker is more likely to be breaking the majority of the games for any given match.
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China Open

sjm
Jaden said:
Well you have to understand that those statistical analyses have an inherent flaw. It's only showing tv table matches, which are going to err to the side of the better performers. So yeah, there might not be a difference in the break between those players who are playing better and are more likely to be on the tv tables and to get farther in the tournament. but that doesn't mean that the players who aren't playing as well aren't having more difficulty than they normally would be with other breaks.

Now don't get me wrong I'm not arguing that in the long run, it's different. Honestly, I doubt that it is, but any statistical analysis needs to include all of the matches to be truly reliable. The tv tables are inherently going to have better performing players on average.
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Very true, but there's yet another issue. In winner's break format (used in nearly all of the events analyzed by AtLarge,) the better player is breaking more than half of the racks, so it, perforce, causes a slight increase in the "breaker wins the game" statistic.
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How good was George Breedlove

sjm
As noted, George was an action player first, a tournament player second. I am no position to rate him as an action player, but I saw him up close at tournaments on several occasions.

As a tournament player, his best years were probably in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was among those that left the PBT for CJ Wiley's PCA tour, along with some other top players that included Strickland and Rempe. He'd have been about the tenth ranked player on that tour, one who often found his way to the late rounds but rarely won an event. Perhaps he was the Alex Kazakis of his day, being capable of near perfect play but rarely finding the finish line against the toughest fields. George had one of the best breaks in the world, so he sometime sat opponents down for racks at a time.
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