Here are some aggregate break statistics from the 2022 International 9-Ball Open played October 31 - November 5, 2022 at the Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel in Norfolk, VA with pay-per-view streaming by Accu-Stats. Jayson Shaw won the event, defeating Wiktor Zielinski in the final match.
Conditions -- The conditions for this event included:
This was a 128-player event, with double elimination down to 16 players (8 on the winners' side and 8 on the one-loss side), and then single elimination to the end. These stats are for all 15 matches (240 games) played in the Last 16 (single-elimination) portion of the event. Seven of these 15 matches were played on the feature table (Matches 2, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, and 15 below), and the other 8 matches were played on tables not in the feature arena.
The figures in parentheses are the Accu-Stats Total Performance Averages (TPA), as calculated by Accu-Stats and shown on the stream. TPAs were provided for only the 7 matches on the feature table.
Friday, Nov. 4 (Matches 1-8 in the round of 16 players, Matches 9-12 in the Quarterfinals)
Saturday, Nov. 5
Overall results
Here's a breakdown of the 240 games (for match winners and losers combined).
Break-and-run games -- The 69 break-and-run games represented 29% of all 240 games, 51% of the 135 games won by the breaker, and 37% of the 189 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 69 break-and-run games consisted of 1 alternate-break 4-pack (by Shaw), 4 alternate-break 3-packs (1 each by Ouschan, He, Gorst, and Shaw), 5 alternate-break 2-packs, and 43 singles.
9-balls on the break -- The 69 B&R games include 4 9-balls on the break (1.7% of all 240 breaks) -- 2 by Zielinski and 1 each by Ko PC and He.
Conditions -- The conditions for this event included:
- Diamond 9-foot tables with 4¼" corner pockets on the feature table (not sure about pocket size on the other tables);
- blue Simonis 860 cloth;
- Aramith Tournament balls with a red-measles cue ball;
- Accu-Rack racking template;
- referee racks with the 9-ball on the foot spot (2-ball not necessarily in back location);
- alternate breaks from a box -- 9" to each side of the long string;
- no illegal-break rule, but referees to enforce a forceful-break requirement;
- on the feature table only, a 30-second shot clock with one automatic extension per player per rack;
- foul on all balls;
- jump cues allowed;
- all slop counts; and
- lag for the opening break in each match.
This was a 128-player event, with double elimination down to 16 players (8 on the winners' side and 8 on the one-loss side), and then single elimination to the end. These stats are for all 15 matches (240 games) played in the Last 16 (single-elimination) portion of the event. Seven of these 15 matches were played on the feature table (Matches 2, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, and 15 below), and the other 8 matches were played on tables not in the feature arena.
The figures in parentheses are the Accu-Stats Total Performance Averages (TPA), as calculated by Accu-Stats and shown on the stream. TPAs were provided for only the 7 matches on the feature table.
Friday, Nov. 4 (Matches 1-8 in the round of 16 players, Matches 9-12 in the Quarterfinals)
1. Albin Ouschan defeated Aloysius Yapp 10-8
2. Fedor Gorst (.986 -- probably calculated incorrectly) d. Moritz Neuhausen (.621) 10-2
3. Wiktor Zielinski d. Ko Ping Chung 10-9
4. Joshua Filler d. Francisco Sanchez-Ruiz 10-8
5. Jayson Shaw d. Abdullah Alyousef 10-4
6. Jonas Souto d. Konrad Juszczyszyn 10-6
7. Ko Pin Yi (.896) d. Roberto Gomez (.780) 10-4
8. Mario He d. Alex Kazakis 10-5
9. Gorst d. Ouschan 10-3
10. Zielinski (.937) d. Filler (.855) 10-6
11. Shaw (.927) d. Souto (.837) 10-3
12. Ko PY d. He 10-6
Saturday, Nov. 5
13. Zielinski (.928) d. Gorst (.895) 10-7 (Semifinal)
14. Shaw (.966 ) d. Ko PY (.930) 10-6 (Semifinal)
15. Shaw (.937) d. Zielinski (.895) 13-10 (Final)
Overall results
Successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul):
Match winners -- 83% (99 of 120)
Match losers -- 75% (90 of 120)
Total -- 79% (189 of 240)
Breaker won the game:
Match winners -- 70% (84 of 120)
Match losers -- 43% (51 of 120)
Total -- 56% (135 of 240)
Break-and-run games on all breaks:
Match winners -- 36% (43 of 120)
Match losers -- 22% (26 of 120)
Total -- 29% (69 of 240)
Break-and-run games on successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul):
Match winners -- 43% (43 of 99)
Match losers -- 29% (26 of 90)
Total -- 37% (69 of 189)
Here's a breakdown of the 240 games (for match winners and losers combined).
Breaker made at least one ball and did not foul:
Breaker won the game: 120 (50% of the 240 games)
Breaker lost the game: 69 (29%)
Breaker fouled on the break:
Breaker won the game: 1 (0%)
Breaker lost the game: 8 (3%)
Breaker broke dry (without fouling):
Breaker won the game: 14 (6%)
Breaker lost the game: 28 (12%)
Therefore, whereas the breaker won 56% (135 of 240) of all games,
He won 63% (120 of 189) of the games in which the break was successful (made at least one ball and did not foul).
He won 29% (15 of 51) of the games in which the break was unsuccessful (fouled or dry).
Break-and-run games -- The 69 break-and-run games represented 29% of all 240 games, 51% of the 135 games won by the breaker, and 37% of the 189 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 69 break-and-run games consisted of 1 alternate-break 4-pack (by Shaw), 4 alternate-break 3-packs (1 each by Ouschan, He, Gorst, and Shaw), 5 alternate-break 2-packs, and 43 singles.
9-balls on the break -- The 69 B&R games include 4 9-balls on the break (1.7% of all 240 breaks) -- 2 by Zielinski and 1 each by Ko PC and He.
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