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Are we trying to make it so that tough leaves of the 15th ball are made easier? I would think that was the shooter's problem. Thank you kindly.

Took some careful examination, but I think it works. The trickiest part was the "15th below the head string but interfering with head spot" not being explicitly called out, but thinking it over, it works. I would have switched the order of the 2nd and 3rd columns. Specific before default...

I am imagining the probable English (watching too many snooker matches) solution to this would be to mark the last object ball, re-rack, and then replace the OB. Is there a reason that this wouldn't be a better solution (other than tradition, of course)? It would remove the variable of...

Chalk isn't made of chalk (Calcium Carbonate) but rather Quartz (Silicon Dioxide)? Wow, color me surprised. How did we get here? Thank you kindly.

If the cork gets dry, a tiny bit of oil (I would use walnut) should fix it up. Never been a problem for me in 35 years. Couldn't care less if my heirs get a good price on my cue, only care about how it plays for me. Thank you kindly. p.s. store one's wine on it side, to prevent cork drying there.

I have a cork wrap that is over 35 years old, and still fine. Has not seen huge amounts of play. I do love the feel compared to linen or finished wood. I don't live in a humid climate. Thank you kindly.

It seems a bad idea (to me) to have time limits and games not based on time, and handicaps based on time, all at the same time. I would certainly expect a league rule in such a situation making sure games go quickly. You are, of course, still welcome to break up that cluster yourself. Still...

It is hardly surprising that you don't know any players that the rules so discriminate against, that it would be impossible for them to play. As Dr Dave reminds us here, the rules are the rules, not just for leagues. Thank you kindly.

That is a pretty big strawman you are toting there. Expected better from you. Is it too hard to imagine how you would do playing pool from a wheelchair, or if you were shorter than the table itself. Thank you kindly.

The small business. I have a limited number of the best quality of whatever I make. Putting the best 100 (plus 9900 lesser quality) in the 10,000 order, makes me look bad, doesn't help the big manufacturer and is, if noticed, only going to be a negative. The small business will notice the...

Then it is working. If you are expecting better odds making than can be achieved through statistics you need to be fixing games. For any data set, one can determine which variables affect the results significantly, and which don't. Once you know that, more data is more impactful than more...

Since you brought it up... "not driving 4 balls to rails on a break shot." YES. This is hard to adjudicate, discriminates against people who might not be able to generate that amount of force, risks injuring the equipment, and adds no fairness to the game. If the rules for a particular game...

Sympathies. It looks like a pretty table, hope you get to play on it soon. Thank you kindly.

With mentoring. Thank you kindly.

Please don't say this. It is physically impossible, and thus casts doubt on your other statements. Thank you kindly.

Not sure why DrDave thinks people will be able to set up 6 balls, when they can't even read.

I don't see how it could be. I don't think FargoRates starts anyone off that low. 425 may be the lowest. The one I found was 128, with a starter rating of 525, and a robustness of 124. Thank you kindly.

Seems unlikely. If one looks at slow motion videos, one will see a lot of chalk coming off the tip at impact. In order for a cleaner ball to result from chalk not leaving the tip, the cohesion of the chalk to itself would need to be stronger than the force from friction AND from deceleration...

Get that Elephant to ND! It looks to me like FargoRate uses every bit of data they have, if you think that they don't have some data; get it to them. Thank you kindly.

No, it shows that the starter rating for the TOP 5 players in his league are too low. Well, duh. Thank you kindly.