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The subtlety people miss is contained here. Yes, agreed. And yes Dennis should go for less in the Calcutta on the easier tables. No, it doesn't. Dennis is still 126 points above those 700s on the bar table. He still wins more than 2 games for every one the 700s win. And the average score...

This is nota list of the best junior players. It is entrants in one tournament. From US it doesn't have, for examples, Lazarro Martinez (723), Kash Keaton (723), Landon Hollingsworth (711). Nor does it have all Europeans. A few examples are Yuma Doerner, 770 and Szymon Kural, also 770. I...

Couple questions (1) How many US players are there with Fargo Rating at or above the rating of the 20th European player? (2) How about same question 5 years ago? (3) How about same question 5 years from now? answers: (1) 5 including Gorst; 4 without him (2) 4 (3) ? While we don't know the answer...

The only thing we know about Kaci since his accident this summer is the 70 games he played against established opponents at World 8-Ball in October. His opponents averaged 804, and won 39 games and lost 31. With a rating of 831, Kaci was expected to win 38.

Here, anecdotally, is my effort to narrow the variables and test this. I took two identical $100 production cues --can't remember the brand. On one I put softest tip I had (Kamui super soft) and on the other a hard tip--tinkier sound. I shaped them the same, and a player couldn't tell which...

Mr. Randall played in two other 1,000 entry events in 2023. In one, (Moby Dick event in Vegas) he went 2 and out In the other (Chester's Brawl in OK City) he reached final 32 bracket and went 2 and out in that.

There are two players left on the winner's side, and one of them, Josh Mitts, went two and out (8-11 and 9-11) at the big 600& under this summer in Oklahoma City

Ryan has been quite active the last year. NOVEMBER MD state 10-ball championship, local Friday tournament at Brews & Cues MD One pocket tournament at Amazin in MA AUGUST 8-Ball tournament in CT JUNE: 1,000 entry 700 & under tournament NV 700& under 2nd chance NV Chip tournament NV APRIL...

How about I"LL choose words to describe MY thoughts, and YOU choose words to describe YOUR thoughts. When YOU choose words to describe MY thoughts, things get goofy. Next you'll be asking ME to post a video explaining YOUR gobblygook... Oh, wait. You already did that.

That one's easy. A claim has to stand up to analysis here.

I'll get right on it.

Aiming makes up 2 pages of 40 in the Foundations Course material I just posted in another thread (other than content that is part of shot routine). I think that's about the right importance. Here is what I say about the "inbetween" overlaps.

If you send an email to support@fargorate.com, Bryan will help you out.

Here is a link (thanks Dr. Dave) to instructional materials I wrote for a Foundations pool course I used to teach. It includes my views on a lot of different aspects of instruction. I hope somebody finds it interesting or useful either for their own development or for teaching others...

Nice job Dave!

I think not quite but almost. Suppose Fedor and Kristina are 100 points apart. That means Fedor has a 2/3 chance of winning each game and Kristina a 1/3 chance. If they play 81 games, Fedor is expected to won 54 and Kristina 27. Now suppose we look at those 81 games as 27 groups of 3 We...

Think of the 2-to-1 race. For the stronger player to win he must win the first 2 games. The chance of doing that is 2/3 X 2/3 which is 4/9, a little shy of half. As the race gets longer, as you show, the difference gets smaller.

Here are the current top 100 players in Asia by Fargo Ratings

Two things. First those lists require 300 and not 200 games. The second one is the bigger one. To avoid having long retired players on the “top player” lists, we exclude players with fewer than 150 games last 2 years. This is normally not a stringent requirement. But if Asian players are not...