Here are some stats from each of the 12 matches played in the 2018 Living Legends Challenge between Earl Strickland and Mike Sigel. It was played February 23-25, 2018 at Sandcastle Billiards in Edison, NJ with pay-per-view streaming by Accu-Stats. The Challenge was a race to 7 matches, and Strickland won it 7-3. The play continued Sunday evening with two more matches (split 1-1) for bonus money.
The conditions for this event included:
- Diamond 9-foot table with Tournament Blue Simonis 860 cloth;
- Aramith TV Tournament balls with the measles cue ball;
- regular triangle rack for 14.1, One-Pocket, and the second 8-Ball match; Accu-Rack template otherwise;
- referee racks with the head ball on the foot spot;
- break from anywhere behind the head string in all disciplines;
- alternate breaks in 8-Ball, One-Pocket, and the second Banks match; winner breaks in 9-Ball, 10-Ball, and the first Banks match;
- in 8-Ball, take the group you make more of on the break (table open if breaker made same number of each group, or fouled, or broke dry);
- no shot clock;
- call shots except in 9-Ball and One-Pocket;
- foul on all balls in 14.1; cue-ball fouls only in other disciplines;
- jump cues not allowed; and
- lag for opening break.
Matches 1-4 were played on Fri. Feb. 23, Matches 5-8 on Sat. Feb. 24, and Matches 9-12 on Sun. Feb. 25. After each of Matches 6, 7, etc., the player trailing in number of matches won had his choice of the discipline for the next match (with no repeats of choices allowed).
••• All information is given first for the match winner and then for the match loser (separated by a comma). •••
Match 1 -- 8-Ball, Strickland defeated Sigel 8-2
Match 2 -- 10-Ball, Strickland d. Sigel 8-7
Match 3 -- 14.1, Strickland d. Sigel 125-7
Match 4 -- 9-Ball, Strickland d. Sigel 8-3
Match 5 -- Banks, Strickland d. Sigel 4-2
Match 6 -- One-Pocket, Sigel d. Strickland 3-1
Match 7 -- One-Pocket, Sigel d. Strickland 3-2
Match 8 -- 14.1, Sigel d. Strickland 125-122
Match 9 -- 8-Ball, Strickland d. Sigel 8-1
Match 10 -- 10-Ball, Strickland d. Sigel 8-6
Strickland won the Challenge 7 matches to 3.
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Bonus matches
Match 11 -- 9-Ball, Strickland d. Sigel 8-1
Match 12 -- Banks, Sigel d. Strickland 3-2
Total score in matches: Strickland 8, Sigel 4.
The conditions for this event included:
- Diamond 9-foot table with Tournament Blue Simonis 860 cloth;
- Aramith TV Tournament balls with the measles cue ball;
- regular triangle rack for 14.1, One-Pocket, and the second 8-Ball match; Accu-Rack template otherwise;
- referee racks with the head ball on the foot spot;
- break from anywhere behind the head string in all disciplines;
- alternate breaks in 8-Ball, One-Pocket, and the second Banks match; winner breaks in 9-Ball, 10-Ball, and the first Banks match;
- in 8-Ball, take the group you make more of on the break (table open if breaker made same number of each group, or fouled, or broke dry);
- no shot clock;
- call shots except in 9-Ball and One-Pocket;
- foul on all balls in 14.1; cue-ball fouls only in other disciplines;
- jump cues not allowed; and
- lag for opening break.
Matches 1-4 were played on Fri. Feb. 23, Matches 5-8 on Sat. Feb. 24, and Matches 9-12 on Sun. Feb. 25. After each of Matches 6, 7, etc., the player trailing in number of matches won had his choice of the discipline for the next match (with no repeats of choices allowed).
••• All information is given first for the match winner and then for the match loser (separated by a comma). •••
Match 1 -- 8-Ball, Strickland defeated Sigel 8-2
- Successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul) -- 3 of 5, 3 of 5, 6 of 10 total
Games won on own break -- 4 of 5, 1 of 5, 5 of 10 total
Break-and-run games on all breaks -- 2 of 5, 1 of 5, 3 of 10 total
Break-and-run games on successful breaks -- 2 of 3, 1 of 3, 3 of 6 total
Missed shots -- 2, 4
Fouls -- 1, 2
Games with safeties -- none
Match length -- 63 min., or 6.3 min. per game
Match 2 -- 10-Ball, Strickland d. Sigel 8-7
- Successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul) -- 2 of 8, 5 of 7, 7 of 15 total
Games won on own break -- 4 of 8, 3 of 7, 7 of 15 total
Break-and-run games on all breaks -- 0 of 8, 1 of 7, 1 of 15 total
Break-and-run games on successful breaks -- 0 of 2, 1 of 5, 1 of 7 total
Missed shots -- 9, 9
Fouls -- 3, 4
Games with safeties -- 11
Match length -- 109 min., or 7.3 min. per game
Match 3 -- 14.1, Strickland d. Sigel 125-7
- High run -- 40, 6
Total innings -- 12, 11
Points per inning -- 10.4, 0.6
Attempted scoring innings -- 6, 5
Points per attempted scoring inning -- 20.8, 1.4
Safeties -- 5, 5
Intentional fouls -- 2, 1
Misseds shots -- 4, 4
Unintentional fouls -- 0, 1
Match length -- 61 min.
Points per Minute -- 2.2
Match 4 -- 9-Ball, Strickland d. Sigel 8-3
- Successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul) -- 5 of 8, 2 of 3, 7 of 11 total
Games won on own break -- 5 of 8, 0 of 3, 5 of 11 total
Break-and-run games on all breaks -- 2 of 8, 0 of 3, 2 of 11 total
Break-and-run games on successful breaks -- 2 of 5, 0 of 2, 2 of 7 total
Missed shots -- 2, 6
Fouls -- 4, 2
Games with safeties -- 3
Match length -- 52 min., or 4.7 min. per game
Match 5 -- Banks, Strickland d. Sigel 4-2
- Games won on own break -- 2 of 3, 1 of 3, 3 of 6 total
Game scores and (number of innings), Strickland first -- 5-1 (12, 12), 3-5 (4, 4), 1-5 (6, 7), 5-0 (3, 3), 5-1 (7, 6), 5-3 (19, 18)
Sum of scores for 6 games -- 24 - 15
Total balls pocketed -- 24, 18
Fouls -- 0, 3
Runs by Strickland -- 4 banks (1 time), 3 banks (1), 2 banks (4), and 1 bank (9)
Runs by Sigel -- 4 banks (1 time), 2 banks (2), and 1 bank (10)
Match length -- 87 min., for an average of 14.5 min. per game
Match 6 -- One-Pocket, Sigel d. Strickland 3-1
- All breaks were from breaker's right side of table
Games won on own break -- 2 of 2, 1 of 2, 3 of 4 total
Game scores (Sigel first) -- 8-4, 0-8, 8-0, 8-2
Sum of scores for 4 games -- 24 - 14
Total balls pocketed -- 24, 14 (none by opponents)
Fouls -- none
Runs by Sigel -- 7 balls (1 time), 5 balls (1), 3 balls (3), 2 balls (1), and 1 ball (1)
Runs by Strickland -- 8 balls (1 time), 3 balls (1), and 1 ball (3)
Match length -- 46 min., for an average of 11.5 min. per game.
Match 7 -- One-Pocket, Sigel d. Strickland 3-2
- All breaks were from breaker's right side of table
Games won on own break -- 2 of 3, 1 of 2, 3 of 5 total
Game scores (Sigel first) -- 8-0, (-1)-8, 0-8, 8-2, 8-0
Sum of scores for 5 games -- 23 - 18
Total balls pocketed -- 25 (none by opponent), 18 (1 by opponent)
Fouls -- 2, 0
Runs by Sigel -- 8 balls (1 time), 6 balls (1), 5 balls (1), 3 balls (1), 2 balls (1), and 1 ball (1)
Runs by Strickland -- 8 balls (2 times) and 1 ball (1)
Elapsed time -- 77 min., for an average of 15.4 min. per game.
Match 8 -- 14.1, Sigel d. Strickland 125-122
- High run -- 58, 97
Total innings -- 7, 6
Points per inning -- 17.9, 20.3
Attempted scoring innings -- 6, 5
Points per attempted scoring inning -- 20.8, 24.4
Safeties -- 1, 1
Intentional fouls -- 0, 0
Missed shots -- 4, 5
Unintentional fouls -- 1, 0
Match length -- 121 min.
Points per minute -- 2.0
Match 9 -- 8-Ball, Strickland d. Sigel 8-1
- Successful breaks -- 1 of 4, 4 of 5, 5 of 9 total
Games won on own break -- 3 of 4, 0 of 5, 3 of 9 total
Break-and-run games on all breaks -- 0 of 4, 0 of 5, 0 of 9 total
Break-and-run games on successful breaks -- 0 of 1, 0 of 4, 0 of 5 total
Missed shots -- 5, 7
Fouls -- 0, 2
Games with safeties -- 3
Match length -- 70 min., or 7.8 min. per game
Match 10 -- 10-Ball, Strickland d. Sigel 8-6
- Successful breaks -- 2 of 8, 3 of 6, 5 of 14 total
Games won on own break -- 2 of 8, 0 of 6, 2 of 14 total (non-breaker won last 10 games in a row)
Break-and-run games on all breaks -- 1 of 8, 0 of 6, 1 of 14 total
Break-and-run games on successful breaks -- 1 of 2, 0 of 3, 1 of 5 total
Missed shots -- 3, 6 or 7
Fouls -- 1, 1
Games with safeties -- 3 or 4
Match length -- 89 min., or 6.4 min. per game
Strickland won the Challenge 7 matches to 3.
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Bonus matches
Match 11 -- 9-Ball, Strickland d. Sigel 8-1
- Successful breaks -- 7 of 8, 0 of 1, 7 of 9 total
Games won on own break -- 7 of 8, 0 of 1, 7 of 9 total
Break-and-run games on all breaks -- 2 of 8, 0 of 1, 2 of 9 total
Break-and-run games on successful breaks -- 2 of 7, 0 of 0, 2 of 7 total
Missed shots -- 2, 2
Fouls -- 1, 3
Games with safeties -- 5
Match length -- 49 min., or 5.4 min. per game
Match 12 -- Banks, Sigel d. Strickland 3-2
- Games won on own break -- 2 of 2, 2 of 3, 4 of 5 total
Game scores and (number of innings), Sigel first -- 1-5 (8, 9), 5-3 (14, 13), 3-5 (9, 10), 5-1 (4, 3), 5-4 (12, 12)
Sum of scores for 5 games -- 19 - 18
Total balls pocketed -- 22, 21
Fouls -- 3, 3
Runs by Sigel -- 3 banks (2 times), 2 banks (2), and 1 bank (12)
Runs by Strickland -- 2 banks (4 times) and 1 bank (13)
Match length -- 80 min., for an average of 16.0 min. per game
Total score in matches: Strickland 8, Sigel 4.
