Here are some 8-Ball stats from the seventh event (third of 2018) of Darren Appleton's World Pool Series -- the 2018 8-Ball Classic Championship. It was played August 7-10 at the IDM Club in Bucharest, Romania with free live streaming on the Facebook page of the World Pool Series.
This was a 47-player event, with double elimination down to the final 16 players (races to 11, with a shootout at hill/hill) and then single elimination (races to 13 until the finals, then 17, with a shootout at hill/hill). The winner was Chris Melling, defeating Jayson Shaw in the final match.
The conditions for the streamed matches in this event included:
The stats are for the 16 streamed matches (302 games plus 2 shootouts). These matches represented 19% of the total of 85 matches played in the event. These matches are listed here in the order in which they were played. Fourteen of the games in these matches are not included in the stats -- 13 because a different table was on camera during those games and 1 because the stream was down while they restarted it to improve the video.
Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018
Wednesday, Aug. 8
Thursday, Aug. 9 -- All Quarterfinal matches
Friday, Aug. 10
Overall results
Here's a breakdown of the 288 games (for match winners and losers combined).
Break-and-run games: The 88 break-and-run games represented 31% of all 288 games, 62% of the 142 games won by the breaker, and 53% of the 167 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 88 break-and-run games consisted of 1 alternate-break 5-pack (by Melling), 5 alternate-break 3-packs (by Kazakis, Shaw, Kaçi, Hohmann, and Melling), 13 alternate-break 2-packs, and 42 singles.
8-balls on the break:
The 8-ball was never made on the break in the streamed matches (it would not have counted as a win).
This was a 47-player event, with double elimination down to the final 16 players (races to 11, with a shootout at hill/hill) and then single elimination (races to 13 until the finals, then 17, with a shootout at hill/hill). The winner was Chris Melling, defeating Jayson Shaw in the final match.
The conditions for the streamed matches in this event included:
- Rasson Victory II 9-foot table with 4¼" corner pockets and 4¾" side pockets;
- Simonis 860 Tournament Blue cloth;
- Super Aramith Pro Cup TV balls with the measles cue ball;
- referee racks using the Accu-Rack template;
- alternate breaks from anywhere behind the head string;
- break shot must contact the head ball first;
- break is illegal unless a ball is pocketed or at least 4 object balls contact a rail;
- take the group you make more of on the break (table open if breaker makes same number of each group, or fouls, or breaks dry);
- ball in hand behind the line after a foul on the break;
- making the 8-ball on the break is not a game win;
- mixed-group combinations not allowed with an open table;
- call shots;
- foul on all balls, and 3-foul rule in effect;
- jump shots allowed only with playing cue;
- shot clock (only after 75 minutes for matches that have moved too slowly) -- 60 sec. after the break (no extension) and 45 sec. on other shots with one 10-sec. extension per player per game; and
- lag for opening break.
The stats are for the 16 streamed matches (302 games plus 2 shootouts). These matches represented 19% of the total of 85 matches played in the event. These matches are listed here in the order in which they were played. Fourteen of the games in these matches are not included in the stats -- 13 because a different table was on camera during those games and 1 because the stream was down while they restarted it to improve the video.
Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018
Nick Malaj defeated Arjan Matrizi 11-4 (stats exclude 1 game)
Albin Ouschan d. Thomas Pöschl 11-3
Chris Melling d. Konrad Juszczyszyn 10-10 plus a shootout
Alex Kazakis d. Wiktor Zielinski 11-9 (stats exclude 3 games)
Klenti Kaçi d. Thomas Charmantzis 11-2
Wednesday, Aug. 8
Jayson Shaw d. Thorsten Hohmann 11-5
Petri Makkonen d. Joshua Filler 11-3
Ioan Ladanyi d. Ruslan Chinahov 13-6 (stats exclude 6 games)
Kaçi d. Mario He 13-8 (stats exclude 3 games)
Thursday, Aug. 9 -- All Quarterfinal matches
Melling d. Wojciech Szewczyk 13-9
Ladanyi d. Fedor Gorst 13-11
Kaçi d. Daniel Maciol 13-4 (stats exclude 1 game)
Shaw d. Hohmann 12-12 plus a shootout
Friday, Aug. 10
Melling d. Ladanyi 13-5 [Semifinal]
Shaw d. Kaçi 13-3 [Semifinal]
Melling d. Shaw 17-12 [Finals]
Overall results
■ Successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul) -- 65% (94 of 144) for match winners, 51% (73 of 144) for match losers, and 58% (167 of 288) in total
■ Breaker won the game -- 65% (93 of 144) for match winners, 34% (49 of 144) for match losers, and 49% (142 of 288) in total
■ Break-and-run games -- 43% (62 of 144) for match winners, 18% (26 of 144) for match losers, and 31% (88 of 288) in total
Here's a breakdown of the 288 games (for match winners and losers combined).
Breaker made at least one ball and did not foul:
Breaker won the game: 106 (37% of the 288 games)
Breaker lost the game: 61 (21%)
Breaker fouled on the break:
Breaker won the game: 2 (1%)
Breaker lost the game: 12 (4%)
Breaker broke dry (without fouling):
Breaker won the game: 34 (12%)
Breaker lost the game: 73 (25%)
Therefore, whereas the breaker won 49% (142 of 288) of all games,
He won 63% (106 of 167) of the games in which he made at least one ball on the break and did not foul.
He won 14% (2 of 14) of the games in which he fouled on the break.
He won 32% (34 of 107) of the games in which he broke dry but did not foul.
He won 30% (36 of 121) of the games in which he either fouled on the break or broke dry without fouling.
Break-and-run games: The 88 break-and-run games represented 31% of all 288 games, 62% of the 142 games won by the breaker, and 53% of the 167 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 88 break-and-run games consisted of 1 alternate-break 5-pack (by Melling), 5 alternate-break 3-packs (by Kazakis, Shaw, Kaçi, Hohmann, and Melling), 13 alternate-break 2-packs, and 42 singles.
8-balls on the break:
The 8-ball was never made on the break in the streamed matches (it would not have counted as a win).
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