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The problem that I have isn’t that Hohmann got more votes, but that Dennis and Niels didn’t also get in this year. There isn’t a limit on the number of people the voters can vote for, so all three could (and should) have been elected. I also think Corey belongs in the HOF.

This will no doubt make you scratch your head at my stupidity, but I think it’s a funny story. I have a Valley table in an unheated out building at my cottage in Canada. The table (or the floor) settled and was now unlevel. We were in Covid lockdown and I couldn’t get a mechanic. I don’t own a...

Jay, If you look at Bob Jewett’s post on this topic, it looks like some voters didn’t realize they could vote for multiple players. That’s the only explanation that makes sense to me for either Dennis or Niels not getting in this year.

What your stats don’t show (and couldn’t of course) is the hyper aggressive style that led to a good number of run outs. I’m thinking of the run outs started with jumps, or banks. Some of those run outs (by both players) were examples of just overpowering the table when most humans would have...

They also had Shane with a 10 pack, which they admitted was wrong.

Thanks. Was hoping you would do one for this match!

Definitely not - the physics are the opposite. Either the CB was actually lighter, or something else was different (e.g., the cloth was slicker, the CB was polished, or you were hitting the CB lower than usual).

I think AtLarge has posted stats like that for many tournaments, both 7 foot and 9 foot. I’m sure there are differences, but since both players are playing on the same table, if run outs are easier on table A, that should apply to both players. I don’t think you are necessarily an anomaly...

I like traditional, but even the traditional TV balls (pink 4b rather than purple) is okay with me. I hate the skittle balls Diamond was using, but the ones at the World 9b are worse. A purple 5b! Some players admitted to shooting the 5b out of order in practice, because it “should” be the 4b.

Here is the video. It is from 4 years ago, but (spoiler alert) Sky’s rating was almost identical on 7 and 9 footers.

If I were a betting man, I’d bet that Seyberts asked Predator and that’s the Predator answer. All of these marketing claims are suspect, not just Predator - taste great, less filing!

I think they had refs racking with templates in this years World 9b in the preliminary rounds. I don’t know if they will have enough refs to do that at the US Open with the larger field and more tables.

Shane has won two World Pool Masters (only person to win back to back), and also was runner up twice in the world 9b (and in my biased view Ko got some unbelievable rolls in the finals). And as Nick pointed out, he was rolling along in this years WC as long as they were using the template until...

The list Bob presented did list Niels’ Euro championship events (not as majors), like Dennis’s SEA Games wins. And of course I would add Dennis’s 3 DCC Master of the Tables as majors. My own view is that all of Hohmann, Orcollo, Niels and Corey should be in the Hall of Fame and should have all...

Thanks. Interesting that the HoF (or whoever put the list together) doesn’t consider the Master of the Table as a title.

I know Niels has a world 9b title, but Dennis has the world 8b (beating Dennis in the finals) and Niels does have a world 14.1. But other than that I don’t see orders of magnitude more for Niels. In particular I personally place a lot of weight of Dennis’ repeated wins at the Derby. By the...

Bob, Is it limited to one player per year? Hohmann for sure deserves it - with two world 9b and all the straight pool titles, and of course the IPT tile, but a shame Dennis has to wait a year.

80-68 for SVB. They start today in about 30 minutes.

Good question. They aren’t listing them as a stat. I think Pat Fleming considers a direct scratch (no kisses) an error but a kicked in scratch no error, but I don’t know what they are doing.

The zero dry breaks is because of the format and not the table, imo. Rack template + no inspections allowed + knowledge of how to “work” the rack + world class players = wired balls every time. In terms of TPA, I would like to know if they are being judged the same as Pat does. I’ve heard...