Recent content by mikepage

FargoRate tracks the decline pretty well, provided (1) it is natural decline, like with age, as opposed to sudden, like with a stroke (2) The player keeps playing Take Archer, with 10,000 games in the system, for example. He was once (decade ago) around 790, was 766 beginning of 2024, and is...

I don't know of any and don't know if it is possible. To go into FargoRate the league would have to be run in FargoRate LMS software. Because TAP has its own software, I assume the results would need to be entered a second time.

Your intuition is right here. If Bill apparently seriously underperforms (375 instead of expected 575) when he moves to Phoenix, there is every reason to believe all those who play near Bill's speed back in Nowhereville also would perform near 375 if they played in Phoenix. And when those...

Yes. But the more interesting case is almost islands. A Presque-isle is an "almost island," a peninsula with a thin neck. And it becomes interesting not only what happens to the few players who leave but also the larger number who stay. Here is a quiz. In the scenario below, (1) What happens...

Both your example of betting on another competitor and the earlier mention of match fixing involve altering the competition or players having perverse (conflicting) incentives. Financial arrangements don't need to involve either. With that said, Matchroom prohibiting them makes sense because...

About two thirds of his games are from the last 6 months or so BEF 10-Ball and 9-Ball, California Junior Championship, etc. My off the cuff guess is he--like some other up & coming junior players--is probably outrunning his rating. But likely by not as much as you suggest. We'll see. The number...

Orange Ball, yes...

Just to mention a few more young players playing today to get to elimination stage Szymon Kural, 784, POL turns 21 this weekend Riku Rompannen, 749, FIN is 17 Walter Laikre, 735, SWE just turned 17 Konnor McFayden, 666, USA, 17 (Florida)

I did some searching on the first 4 of the super improvers (400 to 500+ in two years). E is from Netherlands and plays in a lot of tournaments at several different rooms/clubs, including regional ranking events. He started playing (getting games into FargoRate) summer 2022--a year before the...

I'll take a look when I get a chance. But I was imagining maybe some had their Bar Mitzvah or made the Little League team ;-)

408.6 0 7. (501, 502, 503, 503, 504, 513, 527) 87

Excuse me while I put MY shirt on. I just downloaded all players who two years ago had at least 400 games in the system and were within 20 points of 400 at the time. That's 3140 players. I suggest getting a pencil out and taking a stab at answering the following questions before reading the...

I have played on a 10' table--It was decades ago at CJ Wiley's place in Dallas (Whiterock?)--the place where Earl strung all those racks for $1M. Call me a stickler...But I insisted my opponents in those games also played on a 10' table...

Turns out I wrote a BD article about that 2002 Cardiff event ;-). Here are the blast-from-the-past names