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I don’t know but I asked ChatGPT and I assume what it says must be correct, “Ah, the **shortstop**—a role so critical, yet so intricately woven into the fabric of the game that its importance is often understated. To understand the shortstop is to grasp a deeper concept of defense, agility, and...

And for a more direct comparison, the 2022 edition of the WPM was on 4” pockets and had a 5 pack, 4 pack and three 3 packs. Unfortunately there isn’t much data on winner breaks events on 4” pockets with easy breaking rules. I think the 2021 edition was the first year for 4” pockets but there...

Wait, all y’all have cleared a table before??

No, but if you were to pull data from the 2022, 2023 and 2024 of the UK Open for example, you’d know that you were getting results on 4.25”, 4” and 3.85” respectively.

We need Mike Page to give us comparative break downs of performances across the different pocket sizes. Otherwise you can pull anecdotes or think up scenarios to support either position.

Almost certainly not. Two reasons why this would be ridiculous, 1. Purposefully potting balls off multiple cushions is sufficiently difficult and rare, making against would be like outlawing basketball players from shooting from behind half court. It serves no purpose. 2. Efren was never...

Based on the run out percentage after making the first ball of the rack, players performed a bit better this event than in the Uk Open (51% vs 46%) but not as well as last years European Open (57%). It appears the break was a particular challenge in this event.

One exception is doing a draw break where you play to draw cue ball back two rails tends to leave the 1 near the side. It’s not a soft break but it would fail the 3 point rule often if it were applied. I remember Shane practicing this few years ago before the break box was implemented. Thats...

Looking specifically at the 4” pockets, I don’t have exhaustive data on all of the matches but in terms of winners we‘ve been getting mostly the expected faces winning. Shaw, Kaci, Gorst, SVB, Filler etc. If anything it seems like many of format changes has narrowed the winners pool. What is...

I have to feel like more turns at the table has to favour the better player. It seems as though the games that have the most consistency in its winners are snooker, 3 cushion and one pocket which consequently also tend to have more back and forth.

I think this is basically correct, since you do mention the value of a good instructor When we consider the thousands of hours of play and practice we go through, much of that is on your own. So unless you have a world class coach as a Siamese twin it’s really up to you to experiment and...

I think I need something smaller. Give me eight more reds and I’ll be unstoppable.

My 3 Cushion high run is 0. I got a chance to try it almost 10 years ago. Our game of 3 cushion turned into 1 cushion. Which then transformed into straight rail.

If I had any success rate on that shot over 10% I’d personally shoot at it as long as I am confident I won’t whiff the ball. I’d rather give myself a chance at the win than try to out move Scott Frost.

Ideally, any US tour should be a series attached to the WNT. If not a farm tour, then a structured series of minor ranking events. At this point I think there is most benefit from cooperating.

I don’t know diamonds that well, but generally if you are maintaining your cloth then the pockets will play more forgiving than at a pool hall. I don’t have a diamond, but at 4.25” it could feel pretty forgiving when I played everything at pocket speed. I currently have them at about 3.8” (...

Reverse handicapping. Give the higher rated player games on the wire ;)

What if your opponent broke and ran out on all of their breaks?

I think this problem will go away or be minimized when prize money gets better. It seems it was common enough practice in golf at one point for Arnold Palmer to suggest splitting the gate with Jack Nicklaus irrespective of the outcome...

I wouldn’t be surprised if the emcee had never heard of the tour before now. Probably didn’t even know Kaci’s story aside from the bit he was told.