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Dechaine played in 2024 US Open and also in the very first US Pro Billiard Series (Predator) event in AZ in 2021.

He has about 1,000 games in the last two years

This is players under 23; At 28, he's aged out.

He won more of his games this past year than expected. The system can't tell to what extent that's an aberration (either he got more rolls than his opponents or his opponents were not as strong as we thought they were) or his baseline skill is higher than we thought. You can think of 830 as the...

Old age and medical issues These are two different things, one the system handles fine and the other it sometimes doesn't. Normal decline with age is gradual, and provided the player keeps getting games into the system it is tracked fine. I'll give you two players with more than 10,000 games...

Yes, correct.

This is your performance 300 games at a time, where each dot is estimated performance for the 300 games leading up to that date.

The player will move up at the same rate playing games against a 550 or a 350 or a 750 --doesn't matter so long as he is playing the same number of games against each.

I think the issue is being misunderstood a bit. The mere fact that one side is going to 3 and the other is going to 6 does not, by itself, make the stronger player look artificially weak in the game data. In a handicapped race, both players have a stopping rule. In a 3–6 match, it stops either...

He went from 814 (#31) to 830 (#16) in the last year. That's a big jump.

Since you made that earlier post (August 2025), Yapp has played 820 games. And his performance overall for the last 8 months has been about where we expect it. A year ago, Yapp's rating was behind Biado, Shaw, and Kaci. Now he is above them and essentially on a par with Chua. That is the...

And along the lines of the cognitive dissonance of a middle-aged SD Kid, Gary Spaeth's FATHER was the Cincinnatti Kid ;-).

Is there any evidence he has or has ever had a passport?

I see two separate issues. (1) transferability of skills can be asymmetric It can, for example, be easier to go from Violin to Viola than from Viola to Violin, (and perhaps snooker to American pool, over American pool to snooker) without violin being a harder or somehow more impressive...

Big and little Ko don't have 1,000 games. But they have about 800 games and they're behind only Filler