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(Un)Popular Opinion on Fargo Rate

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Coos Cues said:
In our recent BCA regional event the "elite" bracket included every entry with a fargo rating 600 and up. There were 52 entrants. I didn't try to find the average fargo for the field but I can assure that we have a lot of very sporty players in the mid to upper 600s who played.

The event was won by a legit 606 with a lot of robustness who has been around a long time.

Fargo probably would have given him less than 1/10th of one percent chance to win the event using their math, systems and algorithms. Probably close to zero within the margin of error. But he won it. By winning 8 matches he was the dog in all but one. Many of them a huge dog.

With over 4k robustness he's now a 611. Still lower than almost every single opponent in that event.

Here are the actual results entered into the Fargo calculator. View attachment 898720

So I don't buy that it is deadly accurate predicting winners and this was a two day event not a single match.
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I play in that tournament every year and I know many of the players. One tournament doesn't define a handicap. And if you run that event bracket twice no way that guys wins again. Stuff happens
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Yapp’s Controversial Tournament-Winning Shot in the 8-Ball World Championship … Was it a Foul?

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bbb said:
so he misses and now his opponent runs out and wins
good advice....;)
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Have you any idea how simple it is to rattle balls in? It's like uh, go practice that stuff. Major drill that I would do is trying to jaw balls. I copped this from Al Romero who was able to rattle a ball in 5" jaws at speed. Ball just rattled and stopped right there in the jaws. In trying to duplicate this - it's a one hole trap amongst other things - I discovered how much those balls want to fall. If the shot is in spec, there's nothing you can do to stop 'em.

Back to Yapp and his favoring english; he shot that like he was doing surgery next to an artery and well...
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