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Yapp is 27 years old. He has been on the FargoRate World top 100 list for the last 8 years. In April 2016, when he was 19 years old, he was 769.

There is a simple way to make 8-Ball more competitive and interesting at a high level. On the shot immediately following the break (when in a rotation game a roll out would be allowed) the player at the table elects to SHOOT or PASS If he chooses SHOOT, opponent assigns suit If he chooses...

There is a critical distinction. Imagine for simplicity both ratings are accurate and there are no players above 700 nor below 200, and we say 3 = 200 to 300 4 = 301 to 400 5 = 401 to 500 6 = 501 to 600 7 = 601 to 700 The rating cap is either 23 or 2050 3 5's and 2 4's adds to 23 3 middle...

A good option that gets similar balanced, competitive teams like a draft is to use a FargoRate cap. This allows friends to play together. Suppose you have an existing league division with the same similar story, 12 teams for which, 1 or 2 teams are in the running to win with nobody else...

You can compute this with the Fargorate APP. You just have to treat the shootout when it comes into play as being approximately like a single game, First pick a rating difference, like 40 points, and compute how often higher-rated player wins single race to 4: 64.8% Then treat this race to 4...

This is as aggressive as I get ;-) You are rated 602. In the least 12 months you've played 283 LEAGUE games. Your average opponent has been rated 400.5 You won 225 and lost 57. That's very close to 4-to-1, the expectation for a 200-point gap. That works out to 598 speed. Had you won but...

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Look forward to seeing you Bob. You'll be pleased to hear there are average sized bananas in various stages of ripidity for --brace yourself-- $3

7 months ago, he was just getting established with a bit over 200 games. 160 of those games were from 2010 to 2015 and average about 12 years old. The preliminary rating from just those old games was around 580. The 160 old games carry very little weight--maybe just the equivalent of 10 recent...

You never know where you're going to find party crashers. Look who knocked Mr. Biado out of the Swanee event a few hours ago

I've visited and played in pool rooms in probably 30 states in the US. And I ran weekly tournaments for a decade with Sunday handicapped on 7-foot tables and Monday open and on 9-foot tables. The table size in those tournaments wasn't a big deal. It was for the most part the same players, and...

Hmmm.. I don't know. More than half, certainly. But I don't know how much more.

The match would probably not be so equal on either table. One person is familiar with the equipment and the other isn't. I think there would be a gap like you suggest but my guess is closer to 25 points rather than 50. This is a familiarity issue. The two players are equally skilled, and if...

Minnesota and Norway are pretty similar beyond just the population. Minneapolis and Oslo kinda similar. Smaller cities and lots of rural area. You are from Netherlands, right? That's much denser population, and you can get from one side to the other in no time. Norway and Minnesota are...

I don't see evidence table size is an issue. We can compare Norway, population 5.4 million, to similar sized populations in the US. Norway has 11 people rated 700 or higher Two states in the US where the vast majority of play is on 7-foot tables and the populations are similar to Norway are MN...

If you are replying to me, I am not understanding your comment.

lol... Ina Kaplan, 692 just posted a recorded run of 146 balls. I'm impressed. The 700-woman-not-same-as-700-man crowd must be REALLY impressed.

I remember in the early 1980s seeing Alberto Salazar break the American record in the 5,000M run and then running a 2:08 marathon. It was unbelievable. He was so dominant. I just checked, and in 2023 there were 175 people who went sub 2:08 for the marathon. This event is not unique. It seems...

This would be interesting to see. My guess is Strickland, Archer, Sigel, Varner, Hall... were all close to 800 but not over it.

No, those two players are new to us. That was not the finals. Dario won that match 10-9 and then lost 3-11 to Moritz Neuhausen (Germany) in the finals.