Here are some aggregate break statistics from the 2022 Predator World 10-Ball Championship played March 28 - April 1, 2022 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada with free streaming on Billiard TV and on YouTube. The primary commentators were George Teyechea, Mark White, and Tony Robles. Wojciech Szewczyk won the event, defeating Cristopher Tevez in the final match.
This was an invitational 128-player event with double-elimination down to 32 players (16 on the winners' side and 16 on the one-loss side). The 16 players (out of the final 32) with the highest WPA rankings were then seeded into the final bracket and the positions of the other 16 were drawn randomly. The matches were races to 8 in the double-elimination portion and races to 10 thereafter. The stats are for all 25 matches streamed on the arena table. These 25 matches represented 10.5% of the total of 239 matches played in the event.
The conditions for the streamed matches included:
The 25 matches (334 games) tracked were as follows, shown in the order in which they were played. The stats are for 332 games rather than 334 because 2 of the games in Match 18 were awarded to Kaçi as a penalty assessed against Pagulayan for being late to the match.
Mon. March28, 2022
Tues. March 29
Wed. March 30
Thurs. March 31
Fri. April 1
Overall results
Here's a breakdown of the 332 games (for match winners and losers combined).
Breaker made at least one ball and did not foul:
Breaker fouled on the break:
Breaker broke dry (without fouling):
Therefore, whereas the breaker won 52% (174 of 332) of all games,
Break-and-run games -- The 62 break-and-run games represented 19% of all 332 games, 36% of the 174 games won by the breaker, and 30% of the 210 games in which the break was successful (made a ball and didn't foul).
With alternating breaks, B&R "packages" of the normal type are not possible. But we can still look at the breaks of a given player and see how many he ran on his own successive breaks, and we can call these "alternate-break packages." The 62 break-and-run games consisted of 6 alternate-break 2-packs (1 each by Dominguez, Akagariyama, Sanchez-Ruiz, Shaw, Appleton, and Szewczyk) and 50 singles. No one in these 25 matches broke and ran more than 2 games in a row on his own breaks.
10-Balls on the break -- Six 10-balls were made on the break (1.8% of all 332 breaks). They were spotted.
This was an invitational 128-player event with double-elimination down to 32 players (16 on the winners' side and 16 on the one-loss side). The 16 players (out of the final 32) with the highest WPA rankings were then seeded into the final bracket and the positions of the other 16 were drawn randomly. The matches were races to 8 in the double-elimination portion and races to 10 thereafter. The stats are for all 25 matches streamed on the arena table. These 25 matches represented 10.5% of the total of 239 matches played in the event.
The conditions for the streamed matches included:
- Predator Apex 9-foot table with 4¼ corner pockets;
- Predator cloth (blue, new);
- Predator Arcos II balls, including a black-triangles cue ball;
- Predator Arena lights;
- referee racks using a Predator triangle rack, with the 1-ball on the spot (2-ball and 3-ball need not be on the back corners);
- alternate breaks from anywhere behind the head string;
- call shots (but not safes), with the opponent having a choice of shooting or passing it back after a ball is pocketed illegally;
- spot any 10-ball made on the break;
- early combinations or caroms on the 10-ball are not game wins; spot the 10-ball and continue shooting;
- jump cues allowed;
- foul on all balls;
- 3-foul rule in effect (occurred once);
- 30-second shot clock (60 seconds after the break) with one 30-second extension allowed per player per game; and
- lag for opening break.
The 25 matches (334 games) tracked were as follows, shown in the order in which they were played. The stats are for 332 games rather than 334 because 2 of the games in Match 18 were awarded to Kaçi as a penalty assessed against Pagulayan for being late to the match.
Mon. March28, 2022
1. Eklent Kaçi defeated Emil Gangflot 8-3
2. Skyler Woodward d. Niels Feijen 8-6
3. Thorsten Hohmann d. Ping-Han Ko 8-6
4. Francisco Sanchez-Ruiz d. Jeremy Seaman 8-5
5. Lee Vann Corteza d. Albin Ouschan 8-4
Tues. March 29
6. Sanjin Pehlivanovic d. Ping-Chung Ko 8-7
7. Shane Van Boening d. Jason Theron 8-0
8. Oscar Dominguez d. Jose Parica 8-6
9. Jesus Atencio d. Hiroyuki Shozaki 8-0
10. Kun-Lin Wu d. Riku Romppanen 8-2
Wed. March 30
11. Omar Al-Shaheen d. Roberto Gomez 8-7
12. Corteza d. Pin-Yi Ko 8-4
13. Darren Appleton d. John Schmidt 8-4
14. Eric Roberts d. Yukio Akagariyama 8-7
15. Al-Shaheen d. P-C Ko 8-7
Thurs. March 31
16. Francisco Sanchez-Ruiz d. Alex Kazakis 8-7
17. Jayson Shaw d. Hohmann 8-0
18. Kaçi d. Alex Pagulayan 10-3
19. Shaw d. Jonas Souto 10-3
20. Appleton d. Mika Immonen 10-5
Fri. April 1
21. Naoyuki Oi. d. Chris Reinhold 10-5 (Round of 16)
22. Shaw d. Pehlivanovic 10-4 (Quarterfinal)
23. Wojciech Szewczyk d. Kaçi 10-9 (Semifinal)
24. Cristopher Tevez d. Shaw 10-6 (Semifinal)
25. Szewczyk d. Tevez 10-8 (Final)
Overall results
■ Successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul) -- 70% (119 of 170) for match winners, 56% (91 of 162) for match losers, and 63% (210 of 332) in total
■ Breaker won the game -- 66% (113 of 170) for match winners, 38% (61 of 162) for match losers, and 52% (174 of 332) in total
■ Break-and-run games on all breaks -- 24% (40 of 170) for match winners, 14% (22 of 162) for match losers, and 19% (62 of 332) in total
■ Break-and-run games on successful breaks -- 34% (40 of 119) for match winners, 24% (22 of 91) for match losers, and 30% (62 of 210) in total
Here's a breakdown of the 332 games (for match winners and losers combined).
Breaker made at least one ball and did not foul:
Breaker won the game: 130 (39% of the 332 games)
Breaker lost the game: 80 (24%)
Breaker fouled on the break:
Breaker won the game: 9 (3%)
Breaker lost the game: 14 (4%)
Breaker broke dry (without fouling):
Breaker won the game: 35 (11%)
Breaker lost the game: 64 (19%)
Therefore, whereas the breaker won 52% (174 of 332) of all games,
He won 62% (130 of 210) of the games in which the break was successful (made at least one ball and did not foul).
He won 36% (44 of 122) of the games in which the break was unsuccessful (fouled or dry).
Break-and-run games -- The 62 break-and-run games represented 19% of all 332 games, 36% of the 174 games won by the breaker, and 30% of the 210 games in which the break was successful (made a ball and didn't foul).
With alternating breaks, B&R "packages" of the normal type are not possible. But we can still look at the breaks of a given player and see how many he ran on his own successive breaks, and we can call these "alternate-break packages." The 62 break-and-run games consisted of 6 alternate-break 2-packs (1 each by Dominguez, Akagariyama, Sanchez-Ruiz, Shaw, Appleton, and Szewczyk) and 50 singles. No one in these 25 matches broke and ran more than 2 games in a row on his own breaks.
10-Balls on the break -- Six 10-balls were made on the break (1.8% of all 332 breaks). They were spotted.
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