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Yup, I’ll never understand why the same people who slobber over Earl find Filler so objectionable.

Catching the ball when it's about to scratch serves no purpose. Just let it fall in the pocket.

Props to Sam Henderson for always looking presentable. Can we please ditch the weird euro sportswear and give everyone a normal collared shirt?

No, two evenly matched players performing as predicted will add probability mass to the ratings as they currently are. The optimization model runs through all the games and iteratively tweaks the prediction up or down based on the unexpected game results. Adding a set of games where players...

This is the strongest evidence for inflation. Overall this is a weird post. The contention that FargoRate (i.e. the Bradley-Terry pairwise comparison model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley–Terry_model) is "fundamentally different than Elo" is simply not true. The optimization process is...

I’m surprised that people are defending one of the world’s great players doing something they would relentlessly mock an APA 4 for trying on league night, but for some reason folks here do love to justify bad behavior from pros.

Tony should know better (and does know better) but I guess he figured he would get away with it. WPA rule 6.12: "If the shooter uses his cue stick in order to align a shot by placing it on the table without having a hand on the stick, it is a foul." https://wpapool.com/rules/

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What a dominant performance from Filler. And to think some people here were saying he was washed up after switching cues :ROFLMAO:

Evan wins 5-1. The run in game 4 is destined to go viral.

Pajama man just had an absolutely epic run in game 4:

Evan Lunda could become the first person to win a US Open wearing pajamas.

Turns out bending over to hit pool shots thousands and thousands of times over a period of decades is bad for your back and neck. Shocker. 🤷‍♂️

If it's a popular, well-run tournament this seems totally fine and helps the organizers plan how many people will attend.

For the Fargo haters out there... Dechaine rating - 799 Krause rating - 789 Dechaine game win probability - 51.7% Expected wins for Dechaine in 40 games - 20.7 Actual wins for Dechaine in 40 games - 21

This is a pretty common problem across sports for people who are really really good but not world class. They can’t beat the sharks but are locked out from playing against the guppies - as they should be. They’ll just have to be satisfied with being good enough to be 99.5th percentile and find...

DCC and scheduling snafus, name a more iconic duo :rolleyes:

Agreed, this is a pretty convoluted story. It should have ended here: "ref told us we have to be playing on 3 tables. He said that he explained the situation and the ref said he didn't care and his word was final" Just do what the ref says and you don't lose a bunch of money. Was the ref being...

Tkach giving the smackdown to a random:

Let's Get Streaming pirate service :poop: