Here are some statistics from the 2018 Derby City Classic's One-Pocket Tournament, played January 21-26 at the Horseshoe Southern Indiana in Elizabeth, Indiana with pay-per-view streaming by Accu-Stats.
This event had 393 players, and operated under the standard DCC format of redrawing match pairings for every round, with one buy-back permitted for each player. All races were to 3. Francisco Bustamante won the event.
Conditions -- The conditions for this event included:
- Diamond 9-foot table with pro-cut pockets and blue Simonis 860 cloth;
- Cyclop TV balls with a measles cue ball;
- Diamond Billiard's new CR1 triangle rack;
- rack your own with alternating breaks;
- a ball made on the break counts;
- 60-second shot clock with one automatic 60-second extension per player per rack;
- cue ball fouls only;
- 3 fouls in a row is loss of game (did not happen); and
- lag for opening break.
The 16 streamed matches (59 games) were as follows (shown in the order in which they were played):
Tues. Jan. 23
Wed. Jan. 24
Thurs. Jan. 25
Fri. Jan. 26
■ Breaks from breaker's right side of table -- 37 of 59 (63%)
■ Games won by breaker
■ Matches won by winner of lag -- 6 of 16 (38%)
■ High run-outs
■ Match lengths
■ Average match score -- 3 - 0.7. Half of the matches were shutouts; only 2 matches went to hill/hill.
■ Ball counts by length of run:
The total ball counts resulted from the following runs and fouls.
[Note -- excludes info from 8 games I missed in full or in part: Game 3 of Match 1, Game 3 of Match 6, Game 4 of Match 7, Game 4 of Match 15, and all 4 games of Match 16.]
■ Distribution of run-outs to win the games:
[Note -- excludes info from 3 games I missed in full or in part: Game 3 of Match 1, Game 3 of Match 6, and Game 1 of Match 16.]
This event had 393 players, and operated under the standard DCC format of redrawing match pairings for every round, with one buy-back permitted for each player. All races were to 3. Francisco Bustamante won the event.
Conditions -- The conditions for this event included:
- Diamond 9-foot table with pro-cut pockets and blue Simonis 860 cloth;
- Cyclop TV balls with a measles cue ball;
- Diamond Billiard's new CR1 triangle rack;
- rack your own with alternating breaks;
- a ball made on the break counts;
- 60-second shot clock with one automatic 60-second extension per player per rack;
- cue ball fouls only;
- 3 fouls in a row is loss of game (did not happen); and
- lag for opening break.
The 16 streamed matches (59 games) were as follows (shown in the order in which they were played):
Tues. Jan. 23
- 1. Yerry Calderon d. Ernesto Bayaua 3-0
- 2. Corey Deuel d. John Morra 3-1
- 3. Fedor Gorst d. Joshua Filler 3-0
Wed. Jan. 24
- 4. Alex Pagulayan d. Ronnie Alcano 3-1
- 5. Jeffrey De Luna d. Deuel 3-2
- 6. Dennis Orcollo d. John Brumback 3-0
- 7. Justin Bergman d. Justin Hall 3-2
Thurs. Jan. 25
- 8. Warren Kiamco d. Francisco Bustamante 3-0
- 9. Billy Thorpe d. Pagulayan 3-0
- 10. Shannon Daulton d. Joshua O'Neal 3-1
- 11. Bustamante d. Josh Roberts 3-0
- 12. Bustamante d. Bergman 3-0
Fri. Jan. 26
- 13. Tony Chohan d. Kiamco 3-1
- 14. Bergman d. Daulton 3-0
- 15. Bustamante d. Chohan 3-2
- 16. Bustamante d. Bergman 3-1
■ Breaks from breaker's right side of table -- 37 of 59 (63%)
■ Games won by breaker
- When breaking from his left side of table -- 12 of 22 ( 55%)
- When breaking from his right side of table -- 19 of 37 (51%)
Total -- 31 of 59 (53%)
■ Matches won by winner of lag -- 6 of 16 (38%)
■ High run-outs
- 9-and-outs -- 1 each by De Luna (Match 5), Kiamco (Match 8), and Bustamante (Match 16)
- 8-and-outs -- 1 each by Kiamco (Match 8), Bustamante (Match 12), and Chohan (Match 13)
■ Match lengths
- Longest in total length (159 min.) -- Bustamante d. Chohan 3-2
- Highest in average minutes per game (52) -- Bergman d. Daulton 3-0
- Shortest in total length (29 min.) and lowest in average minutes per game (10) -- Gorst d. Filler 3-0
- Average match length -- 75 min.
- Average minutes per game -- 20
■ Average match score -- 3 - 0.7. Half of the matches were shutouts; only 2 matches went to hill/hill.
■ Ball counts by length of run:
The total ball counts resulted from the following runs and fouls.
[Note -- excludes info from 8 games I missed in full or in part: Game 3 of Match 1, Game 3 of Match 6, Game 4 of Match 7, Game 4 of Match 15, and all 4 games of Match 16.]
- 1 ball -- 77 times
- 2 balls -- 34
- 3 balls -- 17
- 4 balls -- 15
- 5 balls -- 12
- 6 balls -- 12
- 7 balls -- 13
- 8 balls -- 3
- 9 balls -- 2
- Plus balls pocketed by opponents -- 30
- Minus fouls -- 48
- TOTAL ball count (51 games) -- 503
- Average game score (51 games) -- 8 - 1.9
■ Distribution of run-outs to win the games:
[Note -- excludes info from 3 games I missed in full or in part: Game 3 of Match 1, Game 3 of Match 6, and Game 1 of Match 16.]
- 1 ball -- 22 (39%)
- 2 balls -- 7
- 3 balls -- 3
- 4 balls -- 4
- 5 balls -- 5
- 6 balls -- 4
- 7 balls -- 5
- 8 balls -- 3 (11% for 8-9)
- 9 balls -- 3
- Average (mean) "out" run -- 3.5 balls
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