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Sorry for reviving this old post lol. I just found this math stack exchange post these days. Before you see the simulations, here is Corey's perfect break: and Chinese heyball player Zhang Kunpeng's perfect break: So you see, the simulation is very accurate! I wrote a simulation and will...

I asked Corey if he would play again in China last July during the Quincy meeting. This is a dream come true!

I know lol

Sorry for reviving this old thread, but did you end up writing any paper about how you simulated the physics? I'm very interested in the inner working of the game! I hope you still use AZB lol

The table looks really nice! But I feel like the price is too high...

Fargorate looks at racks won and lost. I actually just posted about how to calculate the win ratio from given fargorates. In any case, you can read about very detailed info here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system. Fargo is basically Elo rating system (not for chess) for pool. How...

I found it!

Indeed! Your way of calculating and my way of calculating are basically the same haha, the ratio of your way v.s. my way is:

right, that's what I described in the fourth paragraph. If you are 10 times stronger than B and B is 10 times stronger than C, then you are 100 times stronger than C.

If you open your Fargo app and click on the "FIND RACE" button, you can calculate the odds of winning given two players Fargo, but the app doesn't tell you how this is calculated. Here is what I found: as long as the scores difference is 332 (say 732 vs. 400), the higher-rated player has a...

I just got my Rasson 8ft pro set up. Mouth 4 inches, Throat 3.75 inches, and Shelf 1.25 inches. TDF is 1.08

I believe OB2 always heads in the same direction as CB spin. Here is the reasoning. With a head-on collision of the CB onto OB1 with sidespin, OB1 receives some friction impulse, say its horizontal (Using MattPoland’s diagram ) component is J. Then using the linear momentum equation, OB1 has...

interesting! I've never heard of cf coming off the shaft!

Guangzhou Billiard Expo just ended, and Xingpai星牌 Star released a new pool table with rails covered in carbon fiber. They calimed that makes the rails heat and impact resistant, and last very very long. This makes me wonder, why can't we have carbon fiber cloth for the playing surface? If this...