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Which 2025 pro tournaments had the toughest fields? We ran a million simulated tournaments to find out — using the same win probabilities that drive FargoRate. Along the way we tuned the Harmonic Field Strength (HFS) to best balance star power at the top with depth throughout the field. Here's...

How Strong Was the Field? Harmonic Field Strength (HFS) as a New Way to Measure Tournament Toughness Pool pundits battle about whether the European Open or the World 10-Ball Championship had the stronger field—or which event truly ran deepest in 2025. Or which tournaments should be...

My son lives in London (Wapping), and has an inkling to get out and play some pool. Anybody know of places to play American pool? Weekly or weekend tournaments? He's about mid to upper 500s.

Is there FargoRate rating inflation? Six years ago, spring of 2019, 24 players had an established Fargo Rating over 800. That number is now 68. Further, the average rating for that 2019 group has risen 15+ points over those years. Is this rating inflation, as in the same level of play that...

Here is a comparison of two regions you may find interesting

51 players on top 100 list are now over 800 (vs. 35 players two years ago) The top rating is 848 (vs. 830 two years ago) Are Fargo Ratings inflating? That's not an easy question to answer. But here is evidence they're not--or at least any drift is small. We compared the ratings now to the...

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...

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...

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

pretty similar strength

How many world-class players can an island country of a hundred million produce? Apparently, a lot. Visionary efforts of Sharks Billiard League are beginning to make that clear as they've hosted the first international pool event in the Phiippines in a decade, There now are 31 Filipino players...

Hare are the Nordic top 50

This is the claim we heard recently, the latest variation of the kind of claim we hear a lot. Here is a hint. We—FargoRate—wouldn’t say no unless, well, no. If we were unsure or the answer was mostly no, we’d say “we’re unsure” or “mostly no.” The answer is no. This is the way Fargo Ratings...

I live at the X and there's no pool near me. I might occasionally want to go off for a weekend tournament. The red line is about what I can drive to in 4.5 hours. Anybody know sources of information for this region? websites or facebook groups or whatever. I went up to Qmaster for the Barry...

What do the four players Joey Tate, Landon Hollingsworth, Tyrel Blowers, and Sam Henderson have in common? They are all US players who --- are under 20 years old, --- are rated 700 or higher --- are today joining the likes of Filler, Gorst, Kazakis, Immonen, Styer, Morra... in the US Pro...