Here are some aggregate statistics from the 2018 US Open 8-Ball Championship, played July 21-24 at Griff's Bar & Billiards in Las Vegas. The promoter, CueSports International, provided pay-per-view streaming.
This was a 39-player (less 2 who forfeited), double-elimination event, with all races to 8 except the final match (to 10). The winner was Shane Van Boening, defeating Alex Pagulayan in the final match.
Conditions -- The conditions for this call-shot 8-Ball event included:
The stats are for the 17 matches (224 games) that were streamed. This represented 24% of the total of 71 matches and 26% of the total of 859 games played in the event. The streamed matches are listed here in the order in which they were played.
Saturday, July 21
Sunday, July 22
Monday, July 23
Tuesday, July 24
Overall results
Here's a breakdown of the 224 games (for match winners and losers combined).
Break-and-run games: The 75 break-and-run games represented 33% of all 224 games, 62% of the 121 games won by the breaker, and 53% of the 141 games in which the break was successful (made a ball and didn't foul).
With alternating breaks, B&R "packages" of the normal type are not possible. But we can still look at the breaks of a given player and see how many he ran on his own successive breaks, and we can call these "alternate-break packages." The 75 break-and-run games consisted of 3 alternate-break 3-packs (1 each for Kaçi, Pagulayan, and Van Boening), 13 alternate-break 2-packs, and 40 singles. No one in the streamed matches broke and ran more than 3 games in a row on his own successive breaks.
8-balls on the break: The 8-ball was never made on the break.
This was a 39-player (less 2 who forfeited), double-elimination event, with all races to 8 except the final match (to 10). The winner was Shane Van Boening, defeating Alex Pagulayan in the final match.
Conditions -- The conditions for this call-shot 8-Ball event included:
- Diamond 9-foot table with 4¼" corner pockets;
- Simonis 860 Tournament Blue cloth;
- Cyclop TV balls;
- jump cues allowed;
- breaker racks using the Magic Rack template;
- alternating breaks from anywhere behind the head string;
- table open after the break;
- ball in hand anywhere on the table after a foul on the break;
- cue-ball fouls only;
- for an 8-ball made on the break, it is breaker's choice to spot the 8-ball and continue shooting or to re-break; and
- no shot clock.
The stats are for the 17 matches (224 games) that were streamed. This represented 24% of the total of 71 matches and 26% of the total of 859 games played in the event. The streamed matches are listed here in the order in which they were played.
Saturday, July 21
Chris Robinson-Reinhold defeated Mitch Ellerman 8-6
Klenti Kaçi d. Rory Hendrickson 8-3
Omar Al-Shaheen d. Skyler Woodward 8-7
Klenti Kaçi d. Rory Hendrickson 8-3
Omar Al-Shaheen d. Skyler Woodward 8-7
Sunday, July 22
Ernesto Dominguez d. Alex Olinger 8-5
Dennis Orcollo d. Billy Thorpe 8-6
Jeffrey De Luna d. Robinson-Reinhold 8-7
Kaçi d. Shane Van Boening 8-4
Oscar Dominguez d. James Aranas 8-4
Dennis Orcollo d. Billy Thorpe 8-6
Jeffrey De Luna d. Robinson-Reinhold 8-7
Kaçi d. Shane Van Boening 8-4
Oscar Dominguez d. James Aranas 8-4
Monday, July 23
Dennis Hatch d. Brandon Shuff 8-3
Josh Roberts d. Corey Deuel 8-5
Alex Pagulayan d. Kaçi 8-4
Orcollo d. Aranas 8-7
Pagulayan d. Thorsten Hohmann 8-7 (Hotseat match)
Josh Roberts d. Corey Deuel 8-5
Alex Pagulayan d. Kaçi 8-4
Orcollo d. Aranas 8-7
Pagulayan d. Thorsten Hohmann 8-7 (Hotseat match)
Tuesday, July 24
Van Boening d. Dominguez 8-7
Van Boening d. Orcollo 8-7
Van Boening d. Hohmann 8-1 (Semifinals)
Van Boening d. Pagulayan 10-3 (Finals)
Van Boening d. Orcollo 8-7
Van Boening d. Hohmann 8-1 (Semifinals)
Van Boening d. Pagulayan 10-3 (Finals)
Overall results
■ Successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul) -- 65% (74 of 113) for match winners, 60% (67 of 111) for match losers, and 63% (141 of 224) in total
■ Breaker won the game -- 65% (74 of 113) for match winners, 42% (47 of 111) for match losers, and 54% (121 of 224) in total
■ Break-and-run games -- 43% (49 of 113) for match winners, 23% (26 of 111) for match losers, and 33% (75 of 224) in total
■ Breaker won the game -- 65% (74 of 113) for match winners, 42% (47 of 111) for match losers, and 54% (121 of 224) in total
■ Break-and-run games -- 43% (49 of 113) for match winners, 23% (26 of 111) for match losers, and 33% (75 of 224) in total
Here's a breakdown of the 224 games (for match winners and losers combined).
Breaker made at least one ball and did not foul:
Breaker won the game: 86 (38% of the 224 games)
Breaker lost the game: 55 (25%)
Breaker fouled on the break:
Breaker won the game: 9 (4%)
Breaker lost the game: 12 (5%)
Breaker broke dry (without fouling):
Breaker won the game: 26 (12%)
Breaker lost the game: 36 (16%)
Therefore, whereas the breaker won 54% (121 of 224) of all games,
He won 61% (86 of 141) of the games in which he made at least one ball on the break and did not foul.
He won 43% (9 of 21) of the games in which he fouled on the break.
He won 42% (26 of 62) of the games in which he broke dry but did not foul.
He won 42% (35 of 83) of the games in which he either fouled on the break or broke dry without fouling.
Break-and-run games: The 75 break-and-run games represented 33% of all 224 games, 62% of the 121 games won by the breaker, and 53% of the 141 games in which the break was successful (made a ball and didn't foul).
With alternating breaks, B&R "packages" of the normal type are not possible. But we can still look at the breaks of a given player and see how many he ran on his own successive breaks, and we can call these "alternate-break packages." The 75 break-and-run games consisted of 3 alternate-break 3-packs (1 each for Kaçi, Pagulayan, and Van Boening), 13 alternate-break 2-packs, and 40 singles. No one in the streamed matches broke and ran more than 3 games in a row on his own successive breaks.
8-balls on the break: The 8-ball was never made on the break.
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