Now let’s talk about the cue action. Overall it’s pretty smooth and solid. From your hand touching the table to striking the ball tends to be around the 8 sec mark which is a touch slower compared to top pro’s who are usually about 4-5 secs. If this works for you though that’s fine. The only thing is that the longer people stay down on a shot the longer they can overload their brain with information relating to the shot which could cause a bad shot. You didn’t really hit any bad shots per se. It was just your overall position that made the overall analysis look worse that it really was. The objective of this drill though of course is to leave the cue ball dead centre but you were consistently leaving it to the side of that.

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One thing I noticed a lot is that you get down on the shot and then spin the cue around in order to get it to the right position I presume? You did this on a few shots early on but then not so much later. In fact I felt the overall smoothness of your shots got better towards the end few balls.

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Another thing is that when you are about to strike the cue ball (just before the tip hits it) you have a bit of excess body movement, look at your left shoulder on all of the shots. It moves to the left. It could be that you're subconsciously trying to drive more power / spin into the shot which is causing this. It’s definitely something to try and isolate though and remove going forward.

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This session is a brilliant example of why this drill is way more than “did the ball drop?”. First up, credit where it’s due: you went 10/10 potted, which instantly tells us your base aim and delivery are solid. Across the set your cue delivery stayed consistent too, with average straightness ~81.5 and average pot accuracy ~81.7 — that’s a strong platform to build from, and it’s exactly why the pot never really looked in danger.Where the AI starts to separate levels is the cue-ball “finish” side of the shot. Your average overall score came out at ~68.3, but that’s not because the potting was weak — it’s because this scoring model is heavily weighted toward landing the cue ball dead-centre after the pot. Your average position score was ~6.6, which basically means: the pot is there, the stroke is there… but the cue ball is consistently missing the exact positional target that the drill is demanding.The most useful part of this dataset is the pattern, not the misses. Your cue ball isn’t randomly landing all over — it’s clustering in a repeatable “bias shape”. On average you’re finishing around (38.6, 44.3) versus a dead-centre target of (25, 50) — roughly 13–14 units to the right and about 6 units low. That’s actually great news, because consistent bias is fixable bias: it points to a small alignment/contact calibration offset rather than anything unstable or “wrong” with your action.Speed-wise you weren’t smashing it — your strike was very playable: ~9.9 mph average (about 9.1–11.2 mph range). Yet the cue ball still travelled a fair amount (~74.3 units average cue distance), which tells us you’re transferring energy cleanly and the table is responding predictably. The next gains here aren’t about “more power” — they’re about precision: contact height, delivery direction, and how efficiently you convert that into controlled return.

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garczar said:

Whoever, the deal is they need to put better matches on that main stream table.

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Kris_b1104 said:

Imagine spending $1K on a cue, $800 on a break cue, and $500 on a jump cue just to say you beat someone in a race to 3 on a barbox.

Oh yeah and you won $95 for coming in 1st place. MOM!! GET THE CAMERA!!!

Can you tell I despise leagues? (sorry not sorry to 95% of players on this forum)

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Zerksies said:

It's been quite awhile since i've done a local pool tournament. But what i've seen recently locally for the last few months is nuts. I saw one listed for $200 last night and the week before another one was $75. Plus you have a calcutta too.

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