Break Stats -- Accu-Stats "Make It Happen" 8-Ball Invitational, November 2014
Here are some aggregate break statistics from the final 2 days of the 4-day Accu-Stats "Make It Happen" Invitational 8-Ball event played this week at Sandcastle Billiards in Edison, NJ with pay-per-view streaming by Accu-Stats.
The conditions for this 6-player round-robin 8-Ball event included: Diamond 9-foot table with regular pro-cut pockets, Simonis 860 blue cloth, Aramith Tournament balls, measles cue ball, referee racks using an Accu-Rack SOLO template, alternate breaks, break from anywhere behind the line, call shots, foul on all balls, table open after the break, ball in hand behind the line after a foul on the break, making an 8-ball on the break counts as a win, 90-second time clock after the break, and 45-second time clock on other shots (one extension allowed per game).
The 7 matches played these 2 days (117 games), amounting to 47% of the event total of 15 matches, were as follows.
Overall results -- The breaker made at least one ball and did not foul 73% of the time (85 of 117), won 61% of the games (71 of 117), and broke and ran 50% of the games (59 of 117).
Here's a more detailed breakdown of the 117 games.
Break-and-run games: 59 of the 117 games (50%) were won by break and run. 59 of the 71 games (83%) that were won by the breaker were won by break and run. 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 59 break-and-run games consisted of 1 alternate-break 7-pack (by Strickland), 2 alternate-break 4-packs (both by Appleton), 2 alternate-break 3-packs (both by Strickland), 10 alternate-break 2-packs, and 18 singles.
8-balls on the break: The 59 break-and-run games included 2 8-balls made on the break (1.7% of all 117 breaks).
Here are some aggregate break statistics from the final 2 days of the 4-day Accu-Stats "Make It Happen" Invitational 8-Ball event played this week at Sandcastle Billiards in Edison, NJ with pay-per-view streaming by Accu-Stats.
The conditions for this 6-player round-robin 8-Ball event included: Diamond 9-foot table with regular pro-cut pockets, Simonis 860 blue cloth, Aramith Tournament balls, measles cue ball, referee racks using an Accu-Rack SOLO template, alternate breaks, break from anywhere behind the line, call shots, foul on all balls, table open after the break, ball in hand behind the line after a foul on the break, making an 8-ball on the break counts as a win, 90-second time clock after the break, and 45-second time clock on other shots (one extension allowed per game).
The 7 matches played these 2 days (117 games), amounting to 47% of the event total of 15 matches, were as follows.
Sat., Nov. 8
F. Bustamante def. A. Pagulayan 10-5
E. Strickland d. M. Immonen 10-6
F. Bustamante d. S. Van Boening 10-7
D. Appleton d. M. Immonen 10-6
Sun. Nov. 9
A. Pagulayan d. M. Immonen 10-7
F. Bustamante d. E. Strickland 10-9
D. Appleton d. S. Van Boening 10-7
Overall results -- The breaker made at least one ball and did not foul 73% of the time (85 of 117), won 61% of the games (71 of 117), and broke and ran 50% of the games (59 of 117).
Here's a more detailed breakdown of the 117 games.
Breaker made at least one ball and did not foul:
Breaker won the game: 64 (55% of the 117 games)
Breaker lost the game: 21 (18%)
Breaker fouled on the break:
Breaker won the game: 3 (3%)
Breaker lost the game: 7 (6%)
Breaker broke dry (without fouling):
Breaker won the game: 4 (3%)
Breaker lost the game: 18 (15%)
Therefore, whereas the breaker won 61% (71) of all 117 games,
He won 75% (64 of 85) of the games in which he made at least one ball on the break and did not foul.
He won 30% (3 of 10) of the games in which he fouled on the break.
He won 18% (4 of 22) of the games in which he broke dry but did not foul.
He won 22% (7 of 32) of the games in which he either fouled on the break or broke dry without fouling.
Break-and-run games: 59 of the 117 games (50%) were won by break and run. 59 of the 71 games (83%) that were won by the breaker were won by break and run. 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 59 break-and-run games consisted of 1 alternate-break 7-pack (by Strickland), 2 alternate-break 4-packs (both by Appleton), 2 alternate-break 3-packs (both by Strickland), 10 alternate-break 2-packs, and 18 singles.
8-balls on the break: The 59 break-and-run games included 2 8-balls made on the break (1.7% of all 117 breaks).
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