easy-e said:

... - These bigger tournaments will realize they need more "dead money" entrants to get the prize pool bigger.
- They'll slowly start introducing tiered entry fees based on Fargo ratings

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In the WNT-run events, most of the prize funds are added money. I think the main benefits to MR of large fields is the additional buzz back in home rooms/countries and the room-night commitment to the host hotel.

I'll give ten to one odds that Emily has nothing to do with FargoRate in the next five years.

Since winning the Hanoi Open and Turning Stone in 2023 Jayson hasn’t done much of note in tournaments. He would have been out of the top 25 on the money list last year if it weren’t for the 40k in Mosconi Cup winnings.

straightline said:

Ask an aiming question...

There's a reason for the anal specificity though - consistency. It's not even a stretch to narrow it down from a buncha bawlls to the one functional alignment.

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Okay
You said it not me.
Anal.
What I said is that we complicate the game.
The more you have floating around in your head the more you have to control on every shot and in your PSR.
I prefer to simplify.
You be you and good on you.

philly said:

Sounds like we're in the aiming forum.
Maybe we are.
Like I said, for me at least, all that I look for is the spot on the object ball furthest away from the pocket. Throw comes natural even. It's what happens after hitting a million balls.
Whatever you want to visualize then god bless you.
I try to keep it as simple and unadorned as possible.
That's just me.

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Ask an aiming question...

There's a reason for the anal specificity though - consistency. It's not even a stretch to narrow it down from a buncha bawlls to the one functional alignment.

Cord said:

I guess I don't see anything wrong with that. It's certainly an easier path to $ than pro prool. Could be interesting to watch, too - sort of a 2026 vlog version of Tom Coyne's book. Here's hoping he does it well.

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Then he’s not really trying to become a pool pro as his video claims, he's just trying to get clicks and sell ads.

DeeDeeCues said:

No. This statement is wrong for so many reasons. The mass of the cueball is not the same as the effective mass of the cue, so they cannot move the same amount. The cue is also basically a spring, so it will have reactive forces after the hit. There is a lot more, but I'm not interested in going deeper.

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Equal and opposite momenta to the sides.

GideonF said:

This is why I don’t gamble. It sounds impossible but clearly isn’t!

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The effect is built into the shot. It's probably impossible without the masse stroke. There's a shot I've not seen that supposedly has the CB pulling above the side pocket before contact. Also big on the "no way" factor.

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straightline said:

Those two form the only alignment in a simple, to the pocket, shot. You put two identical objects in identical orientations with some natural holographic filtering and adjustment.

The only thing getting complicated is the wordage.

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Sounds like we're in the aiming forum.
Maybe we are.
Like I said, for me at least, all that I look for is the spot on the object ball furthest away from the pocket. Throw comes natural even. It's what happens after hitting a million balls.
Whatever you want to visualize then god bless you.
I try to keep it as simple and unadorned as possible.
That's just me.

b3p said:

bet they want to charge something laughable on a recurring basis to receive updates to the analytics once per quarter (1 bug squashed)

trivial stuff. what im really waiting for is that digiball >

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And who are they?

InsertCleverNameHere said:

Is this applicable for pool in any way? Looks cool

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For pool it’s only Frame Score. Do not need AI for that. But yes it’s possible to use it for pool

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Thx didn't know that.... how did he break it? It may be why I've noticed an attitude difference.

Island Drive said:

Was watching the match against the Fillers today.
Different seeing Jason miss by allot at times, what caught my attention was his person/character/interaction/Zero with his partner.
No chemistry, no feeling of him wanting to work together to win.
He seems to have changed, never interacting with her and he's a father.
He seemed allot happier in the past.

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Jayson broke his bridge hand a while back and was struggling because of that. I don’t know if it’s still an issue.

I’ve said before that Jayson is also one the last of the elite pros I’d want as a scotch doubles partner. He’s such a great shotmaker that I think he just assumes his partner can make anything and doesn’t concentrate as much on position. Now this observation was several years ago - maybe he’s more attentive to it these days.