Another twist on Fargorate data

I have not seen this discussed and I apologize if this is old news.

So I was poking around at the top player lists in the app and only about a quarter of all players have their settings so people can view their public match history.

But plenty enough are available to get a fair representation.

So if you look at any given player that has their wins and losses visible and divide the games they won by the games they played you come up with a winning percentage number.

Looking at these top player lists I was surprised to see that virtually no one wins more than 2 out of 3 games no matter their fargo. Of course better players are matching up against similar competition but many are also playing a lot of "scrubs". So you would expect these winning percentages to vary widely but oddly they all seem to fall between about 58% and 64% no matter who you look at. I didn't inspect anything but the top player lists and they all seem similar from region to region.

I could only find one player who has won more than 70% of the games they reported to fargorate. Of course there are more but I only looked at a relative handful.

What does this mean? I don't know but I found it interesting. But I'm a numbers guy.

I honestly don't understand why hiding your matches from the public is even an option. I think more people would share them but aren't even aware it's a setting.

Chalk Habits and A Doozy of an AccuStats

Another peeve of mine is when people chalk over the table, oblivious to the shower of chalk they're dropping directly on the rail or the cloth.

Speaking of chalking, I captured this from a live stream a while back :ROFLMAO:
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Obsessive chalking is a sign of a player that's very nervous, I pay attention to this.

Pool$ vs Poker?

bill, the frequency of wins just depends on the weakness of opponents.

in both if opponents are exactly equal to you, then you both will win an equal amount of times. over a long period.

pool you usually have a bigger edge per game if better. but at cards you get to make more bets in more hands to let your edge build up.

Practice what I Preach

Ooop a retelling. 😉
Wednesday night 9 ball at The White Spot preceeded Gabby (Mike Danner RIP) and I playing Scotch Doubles at Rusted's place just down the road. So at 2 am close, we took the after hours recreation to that home table for 9 ball at 5 a stick. Pretty recreational with consideration of the opposite team.
We Prevailed!! I was still of apprentice status. Mike wouldn't coach. He just went and stood exactly where he wanted to shoot from.
My challenge was made so much easier with that ideal resting place for whitey mapped.

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