14.1 Stats -- 2018 Am. Straight Pool Championship, Round-Robin Matches, Oct. 2018

Here are some stats from the round-robin portion (group stage) of the 2018 American Straight Pool Championship played October 16-19 at Carom Café Billiards in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. Free streaming was provided by High Rock Productions on Facebook.

This is a 48-player event, with a round-robin portion (8 groups of 6 players each) reducing the field to 24 -- the top 3 players from each group. That will be followed by single elimination to the end, with the top player from each of the 8 groups having a bye in the first single-elimination round. I plan to post stats for the single-elimination portion after it concludes.

Edit -- For similar information on the streamed matches in the single-elimination portion of the event, see this thread: https://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=482593

These stats are for 9 of the 10 matches streamed in this portion of the event, and they represented 7.5% of the total of 120 matches played in this portion of the event. These matches were to 125 points, with the first 4 on Tuesday, Oct. 16 and the other 5 on Wed., Oct. 17. [The first streamed match (Orcollo/Dudanets) is not included in these stats because it was streamed on a private group page until the final couple of minutes, and I did not see it.]

The conditions for this event included:
- Brunswick Gold Crown 9-foot table with generous pockets and blue Simonis cloth;
- Aramith Tournament balls with a measles cue ball;
- triangle rack;
- rack your own in most cases;
- fouls on all balls;
- lag for opening break.

Attempted Scoring Innings means the player's total number of innings for the game minus the number of innings that he played only a safety or an intentional foul (no attempt to score a point).

PPI is Points per Inning based on the total number of innings in the game for that player. [Note: I call this measure Points per Inning rather than Balls per Inning to be a bit more precise in the definition, since the number of points a player is credited with in a game can be quite different from the number of balls he pocketed.]

PPASI is Points per Attempted Scoring Inning, i.e., points per inning based on the number of Attempted Scoring Innings in the game for that player.

All information is given first for the match winner and then for the match loser (separated by a comma).

Match #1 -- Konrad Juszczyszyn defeated Jani Siekkinen 125 - 43
High Run: 56, 25
Total Innings: 4, 4
PPI (Points per Inning): 31.3, 10.8
Attempted Scoring Innings: 4, 3
PPASI (Points per Attempted Scoring Inning): 31.3, 14.3
Missed Shots: 2, 2
Unintentional Fouls: 1, 1
Match Length: 56 min.
Points per Minute: 3.0

Match #2 -- Mieszko Fortunski d. Tony Robles 125 - 41
High Run: 67 & out, 27
Total Innings: 3, 3
PPI (Points per Inning): 41.7, 13.7
Attempted Scoring Innings: 3, 2
PPASI (Points per Attempted Scoring Inning): 41.7, 20.5
Missed Shots: 1, 1
Unintentional Fouls: 0, 1
Match Length: 78 min.
Points per Minute: 2.1

Match #3 -- Mika Immonen d. Fedor Gorst 125 - 24
High Run: 103, 24
Total Innings: 2, 2
PPI (Points per Inning): 62.5, 12.0
Attempted Scoring Innings: 2, 1
PPASI (Points per Attempted Scoring Inning): 62.5, 24.0
Missed Shots: 1, 1
Unintentional Fouls: 0, 0
Match Length: 67 min.
Points per Minute: 2.2

Match #4 -- Ruslan Chinahov d. Shaun Wilkie 125 - 58
High Run: 73, 30
Total Innings: 4, 4
PPI (Points per Inning): 31.3, 14.5
Attempted Scoring Innings: 4, 2
PPASI (Points per Attempted Scoring Inning): 31.3, 29.0
Missed Shots: 2, 1
Unintentional Fouls: 0, 0
Match Length: 69 min.
Points per Minute: 2.7

Match #5 -- Mike Dechaine d. Fedor Gorst 125 - 14
High Run: 42, 14
Total Innings: 4, 4
PPI (Points per Inning): 31.3, 3.5
Attempted Scoring Innings: 4, 2
PPASI (Points per Attempted Scoring Inning): 31.3, 7.0
Missed Shots: 1, 1
Unintentional Fouls: 1, 2
Match Length: 65 min.
Points per Minute: 2.1

Match #6 -- Thorsten Hohmann d. Ruslan Chinahov 125 - 4
High Run: 125 & out, 5
Total Innings: 4, 3
PPI (Points per Inning): 31.3, 1.3
Attempted Scoring Innings: 1, 2
PPASI (Points per Attempted Scoring Inning): 125.0, 2.0
Missed Shots: 0, 2
Unintentional Fouls: 0, 0
Match Length: 56 min.
Points per Minute: 2.3

Match #7 -- Alex Pagulayan d. Ralf Souquet 125 - 36
High Run: 68, 30
Total Innings: 7, 7
PPI (Points per Inning): 17.9, 5.1
Attempted Scoring Innings: 6, 5
PPASI (Points per Attempted Scoring Inning): 20.8, 7.2
Missed Shots: 4, 4
Unintentional Fouls: 0, 2
Match Length: 88 min.
Points per Minute: 1.8

Match #8 -- Klenti Kaçi d. John Schmidt 125 - 75
High Run: 55, 35
Total Innings: 9, 8
PPI (Points per Inning): 13.9, 9.4
Attempted Scoring Innings: 5, 4
PPASI (Points per Attempted Scoring Inning): 25.0, 18.8
Missed Shots: 2, 2
Unintentional Fouls: 1, 2
Match Length: 92 min.
Points per Minute: 2.2
[Note: Schmidt actually scored 74 points, but I used the official score of 75.]

Match #9 -- Efren Reyes d. Petri Makkonen 125 - 31
High Run: 89 & out, 31
Total Innings: 3, 2
PPI (Points per Inning): 41.7, 15.5
Attempted Scoring Innings: 2, 2
PPASI (Points per Attempted Scoring Inning): 62.5, 15.5
Missed Shots: 0, 2
Unintentional Fouls: 1, 0
Match Length: 67 min.
Points per Minute: 2.3

Here are some aggregate stats for the 9 streamed matches I watched from round-robin play (all games to 125 points):

• Points per Inning
  • For match winners: 28.1
  • For match losers: 8.8
  • For both: 18.8
  
  Points per Attempted Scoring Inning
  • For match winners: 36.3
  • For match losers: 14.2
  • For both: 26.9
  
  Points per Miss or Unintentional Foul
  • For match winners: 66.2
  • For match losers: 13.6
  • For both: 35.4
  
  Average (mean) High Run
  • For match winners: 75
  • For match losers: 25
  • For both: 50
  
  Average (median) High Run
  • For match winners: 68
  • For match losers: 27
  • For both: 38.5
  
  Average number of innings per match
  • Total innings: 4.4 for match winners, 4.1 for match losers
  • Attempted scoring innings: 3.4 for match winners, 2.6 for match losers
  
  Average (mean) match score: 125 - 36 (losers' scores ranged from 4 to 75)
  
  Average (mean) match length: 71 min. (range 56 min. - 92 min.)
  
  Average (mean) points per minute: 2.3 (range 1.8 - 3.0)

slach said:

Tremendous amount of work pulling all this together, thanks! Curious, how'd you acquire the raw data?

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Thanks. Not sure what you mean -- the raw data is from taking notes while watching the matches.

Poolmanis said:

... I just want add one missing Stat: 4x Finnish players entered tourney and 4 of them advanced to single elimination stage... That is 100%!
GO FINLAND!(and Efren)

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Hey, USA got 4 in the final 24, too.:wink:

[5 if you count Zvi]

Joe_Jaguar said:

Hohmann match on now:

https://www.facebook.com/HighRockstore/videos/249464005736203/

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It was a foul fest.