Recent content by Bob Jewett

And here's another. I wonder how many he has...

It must have been at the end of the game without red balls on the table. In that case, if one player is behind by more than the number left on the table (13, pink and black) he will be trying for a snooker so the leader fouls and gives up points. At the same time the leader will be trying to...

The ref and the TD would get together and figure out what they feel is an appropriate solution. The general idea is that the player should not suffer from lousy equipment. However, I've seen a tournament table where the ball return would spring balls back onto the table if struck hard, and I...

In the latter rounds of banks and one pocket, they can start matches from the next event, so they can keep the tables busy. I'm sure it takes some juggling, but when you have about 200 matches in the first round of one pocket, there have to be some pairs that are not still in the tail end of banks.

This. Put nice tips on them and make sure all the finish is off the shaft. By nice, I mean LePro.

This is the average over the whole of all tournament playing time up to when it started winding down at nights and on the final Saturday and there were not enough matches to fill the tables. During that active tournament time, on average about 1 in 3 tables had no match being played on it. If...

That's true. I was just offering a possible explanation why the lower cue ball weight is not surprising. But I have seen many, many cue balls that were lighter due to wear. I used to play with a red circle cue ball that was a pink crescent.

Well, I don't think they have to do anything like that. One stat I didn't repeat from an earlier thread was table utilization. To the extent that the match times from DIgitalPool can be trusted -- and errors in both directions have been reported -- the table utilization was only 63%. If that's...

The cue ball is expected to be small after some amount of use. It's only a little small, but it hasn't been used as much as in a pool room. For the other errors, I think they're just random. It's also important to note that because I'm measuring to a tenth of a gram, my errors may look larger...

This seems to still be broken. Any chance for a fix @azhousepro , Mike?

I measured a set of Aramith Tournament balls (broken ring design) that I've been using for a few years. I used a scale that measures to a tenth of a gram. I measured twice to check repeatability and a few read 0.1 gram different on the two, so I averaged them. The "error" is the difference from...

I think this would be easier on a ten-foot table, at least for tall players.

Trivia question -- which jazz musician was named after the black ball?

And here is Sharivari doing it with 49 balls, spacing them at half-diamonds the short way and going to both ends. Tough. (You have to click on the "Watch on YouTube" button for monetization.) Here's the setup:

The rules of snooker originally allowed jump shots and Joe Davis explained how to shoot them in one of his books. He said to slide the stick along the cloth, which is referred to in pool as a scoop shot now. In the 1965-1966 official rule book for Billiards and Snooker there is no mention of...