I used to always be the accu-stats girl in Reno, at the Sands Regency. Back in the early 90's. I love Accu-Stats they were all a blast to work with and have fantastic product! Anyway that being said, I have loved any of the "player review" tapes/dvds because you get to hear what the actual thoughts and/or intentions of what pool player was looking to achieve, as opposed to another players speculations. A great learning tool.
I also enjoyed Pat Flemings Blooper tape, his first one. I was the statitician for one of the bloopers, it was Mike Massey playing Jimmy Mataya (I believe) and Mike took so long figuring out what to shoot that he actually picked up the cueball and moved it to a better location and shot, we were taping and knew it was a foul, and the commentators knew, but it was up to the opponent to call the foul, and we had to smother our laughter in order not to give it away.
Another tape that is a classic is called "Hill to Hill?! Anyway something like that and it is the last exciting game of multiple hill hill matches, featuring a variety of awesome talent.
I still have some copies of the matches I did stats for years ago and can read them to this day, and tell you what happened with the shot when they left the table throughout the match. Pat has devised an amazingly accurate system that you could use to evaluate your own games if you wished. I am one of the few that got to get paid to sweat and score the matches. After I would leave Reno I would count balls and do stats in my head for at least 2 weeks..lol:thumbup:
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