Recent content by MattPoland

What was Justin’s foul on ball in hand?

It’s no work at all. AI does it all. We are living in 2026. I point it at the website and tell it to pull down all the results for each person into a JSON file. Then I tell it to calculate the performance ratings for each person based on the data in the JSON file. It spits out an Excel...

Here's an example. Keep an eye on the Robustness column. Carlos had a stroke. Brooke, Henry, Laurie, and Alfred have no robustness. But you have three players on team Thomas with FargoRates in the 460-480 level that recently won a tournament at the Soaring Eagle Open with performance ratings...

In general it’s valuable because it is feedback. You personally could see over the course of a league season whether your performance showed improvement or not. In terms of sandbagging. If you have people with a 500 FargoRate win a major handicapped tournament playing at a 600 performance...

I feel like CSI should include season performance ratings in the dashboard. If there’s ever been a tool for transparency and outing people that might sandbag in leagues to get ramped up for a handicapped tournament, that would be so valuable. The data is all right there and we are talking...

His original act was a gross example of stealing in my book. That makes him a thief. It should be none of my business and between two men, except this was a publicly advertised and streamed event. So it’s 100% apt for this to play out in the public court of opinion within the industry. He...

It’s like they took all my least favorite design choices and put them in a single Frankenstein set. From purple 4 to Aramith Tournament pink 4 From orange 5 to Aramith Black purple 5 From green 6 to Cyclop mint 6 From blue 2 to Cyclop teal 7 as the 2 I get changing things for a better...

No shade but that’s wild to me. I’ve always subscribed to the belief that once you’re down on the shot that you should never move any aspect of your stance or else you’ve already missed the shot. I can appreciate that the bridge hand is serving as an anchor in this case and you have lived...

I’ve never seen anyone use BHE by shifting their torso/stance. Is that actually a practice in the wild? I’ve only ever seen people shift their back hand and be willing to cue askew to their body.

I think it will be harder to get all the very best in the same place. US Open. World Championships. And then after that they have options on where to go. But it’s tricky because even if every field isn’t the most prestige all start field it can be, there’s so much world talent out there that...

Sounds like we each understand where the other is coming from. That’s sufficient for me.

I only use running vs check to describe the rail action. No need to use the same term for two different phenomenon when other already accepted terms already exist. Otherwise we’re back to the kind of unhelpful equivocation we get with cueball vs shaft deflection. I exclusively use the term...

Left hand english on this shot would be inside English and it would be running (widening) English .

Here’s what I say. Draw a line from the cueball to the object ball. If your tip and the target pocket are on the same side of that line, it’s inside english. If the tip and pocket are on opposite sides of that line, it’s outside english. Depending on the cueball trajectory to the rail...

I think he doesn’t care if he’s right or wrong and has a strong appreciation for the idea that all his shenanigans spur up social media engagement and regardless of the look, it’s good for bringing attention to the production. And with that he’s mostly having fun with it.