As so many have suggested Accu-stats videos tend to make for better viewing than televised pool, an assertion that is, at very least, reasonable, I thought it a good time to, once again, take up the cause of Pat Fleming being deserving of election to the BCA Hall of Fame.
I wonder how many of you know the real story of Accu-stats. When Pat put together his Accu-stats venture in the mid-1980’s, video recordings had nothing to do with his plans. Pat, with whom I practiced occasionally back then, asked me if I’d like to invest in Accu-stats, and explained the venture to me. He had already developed a model, he told me, for measuring a player’s performance, which we now know as the Accu-stats performance percentages, and his plans involved no more than calculating professional player performance stats and selling those stats to the various professional pool organizations. The venture didn’t seem particularly exciting to me, and I opted not to invest.
A couple of years later, Pat, like other good businessmen, identified an opportunity to expand his business. He saw a market for recording and selling video tapes of professional matches. Well, we all know the rest of the story. Pat, through Accu-stats has made an enormous contribution to the game of pool. Few of us are lucky enough to have had the opportunity to learn by watching Willie Mosconi, Irving Crane, Luther Lassiter, Jimmy Caras, or Eddie Taylor, but, mostly thanks to Pat’s vision, our generation and future generations will have the opportunity to learn from Mike Sigel, Efren Reyes, Buddy Hall, Johnny Archer, and so many others worth watching.
Pat is a visionary who has made a lasting contribution to the game, a far greater contribution than some who have already been inducted have made. When will the BCA Hall of Fame come calling? It’s Pat’s turn.
I wonder how many of you know the real story of Accu-stats. When Pat put together his Accu-stats venture in the mid-1980’s, video recordings had nothing to do with his plans. Pat, with whom I practiced occasionally back then, asked me if I’d like to invest in Accu-stats, and explained the venture to me. He had already developed a model, he told me, for measuring a player’s performance, which we now know as the Accu-stats performance percentages, and his plans involved no more than calculating professional player performance stats and selling those stats to the various professional pool organizations. The venture didn’t seem particularly exciting to me, and I opted not to invest.
A couple of years later, Pat, like other good businessmen, identified an opportunity to expand his business. He saw a market for recording and selling video tapes of professional matches. Well, we all know the rest of the story. Pat, through Accu-stats has made an enormous contribution to the game of pool. Few of us are lucky enough to have had the opportunity to learn by watching Willie Mosconi, Irving Crane, Luther Lassiter, Jimmy Caras, or Eddie Taylor, but, mostly thanks to Pat’s vision, our generation and future generations will have the opportunity to learn from Mike Sigel, Efren Reyes, Buddy Hall, Johnny Archer, and so many others worth watching.
Pat is a visionary who has made a lasting contribution to the game, a far greater contribution than some who have already been inducted have made. When will the BCA Hall of Fame come calling? It’s Pat’s turn.
.....third the motion! Pat is long overdue for a berth in the BCA Hall of Fame. Maybe sjm can submit an email petition to the BCA on Pat's behalf - sort of like those annoying chain-emails we get, only this time for pool, and we can all add our names!!
