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It's nice to see the handshakes and sportsmanship between the players before and after the games.

It's almost midnight over there, no surprise that the crowd is starting to flag.

You think Filler or Shaw would have missed that shot Styer had just because some US fans were barking? LOL.

I wonder how many times Euro players have come from behind in matches the last few years. It seems like the US routinely gets up 4-2 and then manages to lose.

None of the euros would have failed to get out from that position.

Nice bank by Sky.

Watching Greg Norman collapse or figure skaters fall or field goal kickers miss is also compelling. That's part of sports!

Imagine if the US' most talented players like Sky, Bergman, Dechaine, Thorpe, and Chohan went on a Euro diet and adhered to a Euro practice regime and in general lived a reasonable Euro player lifestyle focused on health and pool. Then again this is such a preposterous idea that you have to...

it's no conspiracy, the US team just isn't that good. We have the talent but not the work ethic, along with a small handful of folks with the work ethic but not the talent. Only SVB combines the two.

he left himself weird on the 7. He could have taken a more aggressive shot on that to get better on the 8, rather than playing safe on the 7 and leaving himself a tricky one on the 8. The 8 was closer to the pocket so I get why he did it the way he did.

That was sad to watch him play basically a two-way shot on the bank to leave a long one for Alcaide. You need to go for it.

Oh Tyler.

Sky fell right into that trap.

Nothing new at the Mosconi Cup unfortunately.

Shaw is hilarious. For some reason the people who hate him also slurp Strickland whose behavior makes Shaw look like a choirboy.

Fargo is just an implementation of the Bradley-Terry statistical model for paired comparisons. The rest of your post seems like a mostly accurate but tautological description of how the model scores are shown to consumers.

200 games is way overboard. More like 40 or 50 should be sufficient in typical situations. The law of large numbers and central limit theorem are a thing. Anyway, if you want to know the math, here’s the math: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley–Terry_model

The table gets trashed, it isn’t used that much and doesn’t make money, and then the owners ask themselves why do I have this thing at all? Even better is when the table is only used by freeloaders who don’t buy anything.

Atlanta TopGolf had a (free) pool table when I was there a number of years back. On a recent trip I was surprised to see that Worcester Country Club has a couple pool tables in their very '50s looking men's locker room and lounge area. You don't see them at nice golf clubs very often nowadays...