Recent content by Wayne Crimi

I'll make one last point. I'm not a chess player, but I follow the game and ratings. I would assume Fargo ratings were developed to be similar to chess ratings. Chess ratings move around much faster than Fargo ratings even though the top players take turns beating each other just like in pool...

I'm highly sensitive to what you are saying because I'm a gambler and need to do exactly what you are saying. I just do it subjectively because I don't think a formula can capture form changes correctly (young players improving, old players declining, personal problems impacting performance...

I hear everything you are saying, but to me anything over maybe 18 months is probably close to irrelevant as long as the player is active. Players have good and bad years depending on what's going on in their lives and to some degree luck, but they don't really have fully lucky or unlucky years...

You can certainly argue about a match here or there, but that's always part it. You and your opponents are going to have some matches where you play over your head and some under (or get the better of the rolls) . And that would be very important over a single tournament, but 3 tournaments is...

The Florida Open and US open have convinced me that Fargo's rating approach is a tad too long term oriented. IMO it should weigh more recent efforts a little more than it does now. Aloysius Yapp is rated 835 now. That's very high. With a rating like that he has a decent shot to win almost any...

Did they alter the rules on those shots? I'm an old timer. I may have even been at that tournament. I attended a lot of those Roosevelt Hotel tournaments. Back in those days, no one would call a foul on those as long as you shot down with a quick stroke and both the object ball and cue ball...

Interesting that he brought up Hopkins. The first time I saw peak Hopkins play he was playing 9 ball in Queens NY at the Golden Cue. He missed one shot in over an hour of play. He was insanely good that night. I was a teenager at the time and tried to mimic his stroke a little because I...

I have to wonder how much of that is the more accurate cues, more accurate cloth, lower nap cloth and simply getting used to playing on tighter pockets. I certainly don't know. With some of the high deflection cues and rugs they used to play with years ago even the slightest accidental...

good one

My issue with tighter pockets and tougher tables is not that elite tournament level players want to play on them. They know the better players have an advantage with tighter pockets and on tougher tables. So of course the very best players will tend to want tigher pockets so there are fewer...

Fran is my cousin Anyone can make balls on any table, but at the margin you are going to miss more on a tighter table and may even tighten up mentally on some of the tougher shots. We don't need buckets, but we don't need begginers getting so frustrated they don't get enough plaseure out of...

I think switching to 4" pockets was idiotic for the game in general. I can see the very best players wanting to play with 4" pockets in tournaments because imo that subtly increases the pobability that the better player will win and the best players want every possible advantage. However for...

I think there are equiment explanations for some of that (definitely speed of cloth, quality of cue and more consistent racking), but setting that aside what ARE those stats? Going way back I used to occasionally hear of someone running a 10 pack with all that old equipment. Do we see that...

I just found this thread and started reading it. Maybe I missed something that was already discussed, but instead of asking "would the peak Archer of the 90s be able to hang wih the best players of today" and then talking about reasons players of today are better (more accurate cues, faster...

Best of luck. That was my goal also. I topped out at 93 (and a few 80s), but I was playing well enough at the time I am certain 100 was around the corner. Then life interfered with my pool playing and I stopped playing for close to 30 years (I'm 66 now). I just started playing again, but I...