Recent content by Bob Jewett

Yes, that's not how FargoRate works. You could play against no one over 500 and get a 700 rating. You would just have to beat them badly nearly all the time.

The main table has multiple views and commentary. The secondary tables have a single, fixed camera at a funny angle.

:devilish: Bless your heart.

The problem is that the collision with the cushion is very complicated and the answer may depend on the profile of the cushion. Gearing seems like a reasonable answer, but what does that mean when the cushion changes shape during the contact? I think we can be sure that some amount of running...

I enjoyed watching the IPT events as well and I went to all but the battle of the sexes before the King of the Hill. But as a good competition, the game was too easy. I remember one match -- Marlon Manalo was in it, but I don't remember who his opponent was -- that was a race to 13 and it went...

Another way to look at it is that if a player loses the first four games in a single race, mental strength gives the player a better chance to battle back. In sets, you just lost the first set and get a reset and you can relax more and the mental strength is less beneficial. Maybe one format is...

The site newspapers.com has scanned many old newspapers and you can search for a particular time and keywords and state. If the results got printed, there's a chance you could find it there. I've found a lot of billiard info there. Also, all the issues from 1990 of the National Billiard News are...

Here is a previous discussion of sets vs. a single race... https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/do-the-predator-style-sets-of-4-actually-lead-to-more-upsets-than-one-long-race-i-took-a-look-at-the-data-from-the-172-matches-played-so-far.580151/

The angle into the cushion is almost never equal to the angle out. If there is no side spin on the ball, the angle out is always shorter -- more perpendicular to the cushion. On rolling cue ball shots, as you see on many kick shots, the angle may appear to be equal -- the times two diamond...

I have posted my list of all editions of the BAA/BCA rulebooks including all the minor variations I noticed such as price/no price label. Here it is: https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/history-of-the-rules-for-pool.590295/#post-8522053

Around here there was (and maybe still is) a handicapped nine ball league. Years ago in the room where I played, there was a pair of players who played every week, religiously, you might say, as if on a mission. Every week, they both lost two matches and went home. At the big, quarterly...

I've heard one of those capped, high-stakes events do not report results to FargoRate. I was told that the TD and his friends thought that would be counterproductive. ;) Seems to me that it's best to steer clear of tournaments that don't report. Unless, of course, you somehow find yourself 100...

Here is a list of the rule books printed by the BAA and the BCA from 1945 on. Some years there was no book printed and some years there was more than one version. Some differences were as minor as a different ad on the rear cover. A 2026 printing is planned, but I have not seen it yet...

The first written rules in English for billiard games were in Charles Cotton's "The Compleat Gamester", published in 1674 in London. Modern reprints are available for under $40, and scanned versions are available online. During the late 19th and first half of the 20th century, Brunswick (or...

I think the target customer for that particular drill is going to be in the FargoRate 300 or APA 2 range. The main value seems to be holding their attention long enough to get them hooked on the game. I use five or six other drills/exercises/games for developing the low end of the speed range...