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A group of players--whether it is 2 or 200--who are fully isolated from the rest of the network is what we call an island. Islands are pretty rare and mostly are counterfactuals like the one we're talking about here. Even when a low-level league, perhaps a USAPL league, starts up in a remote...

Everything you've said in recent posts is right except for this. There is no need for a starter rating, and in fact more players don't have one than have one. FargoRate would have no information to place them other than that they are 100 points apart. Yes they would have numbers, and yes they...

You are not understanding the way it works. It turns out he had no starter rating at all (like more than half the players who enter the system). But even if he did, it wouldn't matter if that starter rating was 100 or 800, he'd be at the same place now.

Two comments about this. First, the starter guesses you are talking about are outside the system. They don't affect anybody and are merely about incorporating people who don't yet have a Fargo Rating. The second thing is a LO can't change them at whim. There are restrictions. For instance...

Savannah was referred to as "only 15" in a previous post. I believe she's 13 and turns 14 next month

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!