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Tied 2-2, Fedor breaking And I've gotta quit watching to get some sleep 🥲

And here's a Python version using SciPy. There's a cumulative distribution function, so I can avoid the looping (ARRAYFORMULA w/ SEQUENCE) that I had to do in the spreadsheet. Both cumulative and summed distribution work out the same as you'd expect. from argparse import ArgumentParser...

I think Google Sheets might've introduced it first. https://support.google.com/docs/answer/12504534?hl=en Pretty sure something similar can be done in Excel, but I don't remember how.

A while back I made a spreadsheet to calculate the odds for high races. I'll share it here just as an alternative. It doesn't use a simulation. To be honest I forget exactly how it works, but here's the spreadsheet formula I came up with: =SUM(ARRAYFORMULA(...

smh.. 3:00

In my experience only 1p and sometimes banks is played with edge of ball. I think DCC does it for 9b just to be consistent with the other two formats.

I'm guessing these captions are generated, too, since they sometimes have random HTML snippets in them..

Is this really the BCA Instagram page? The posts are concerningly low quality. https://www.instagram.com/thebilliardcongressofamerica?igsh=MWMwcTFyYmJrdTRlaA== Edit: I realize maybe it's hard to view the account's posts on a desktop web browser. Here's an example zoomed in to show that it's...

I hit balls with one at DCC and was very impressed for the price. The hit was nice. Can't remember exactly what the deflection was like, unfortunately.

Nah it won't produce a higher spin to speed ratio

If the shaft had similar bending stiffness to one with higher end mass, this is probably true. Generally CF shafts are higher bending stiffness. Maybe an LD wood shaft would be best?

I'm not sure if deflection directly contributes to the difficulty of a Fouetté shot. I'd like to hear more thoughts on this.

I think that because of the usually higher stiffness of a carbon fiber shaft, it would at least be more difficult to perform a Fouetté shot without secondary contact. The slightly different initial cue direction might also allow a higher deflection shaft to avoid secondary contact with the...

An interesting point from all of this is that for higher deflection cues, the amount of spin imparted is slightly less sensitive to tip contact point error. On the other hand, for lower deflection cues, the amount of cueball deflection is less sensitive to tip contact point error. I think the...

Maybe instead I should try to determine what the highest margin of error approach is given perfect aim including intended cue direction, cue elevation, tip position, and speed. In other words, only accounting for stroke error. I'm not sure if that's useful, though, since obviously aim can be a...