Break Stats, Scores, and Player Records -- 2019 ABN Dream Challenge (USA vs. Russia),

Here are a few break stats for the 2019 ABN Dream Challenge -- Team USA vs. Team Russia. Individual records are in post #2. This was a 9-Ball event similar to the Mosconi Cup, played September 23-25 at the Baza Billiard Club in Moscow, Russia. Free live streaming was provided on the ABNbilliards Facebook page.

This event was a race to 10 match wins, with each match being a race to 5 games. The format was one teams match [each player (5 of Team USA's 6 players) plays one game, then repeat until one side wins 5 games], 8 doubles matches, and up to 10 singles matches (8 were played). Team USA won the teams match, 6 of 8 singles matches, and 3 of 8 doubles matches to take the title 10-7.

The players for Team USA were Shane Van Boening, Billy Thorpe, Skyler Woodward, Corey Deuel, Tyler Styer, and Max Eberle. The players for Team Russia were Ruslan Chinakhov, Fedor Gorst, Konstantin Stepanov, Sergey Lutsker, and Maksim Dudanets.

Conditions -- The conditions for this event included the following:

The 17 matches played were as follows, in the order played. Match winners are bolded; event scores after each match are in brackets.

Mon. Sept. 23, 2019

Tues. Sept. 24

Wed. Sept. 25

Successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul:

Breaker's side won the game:

Break-and-run on all breaks:

Break-and-run on successful breaks:

Here are the final match and game records for the 2019 ABN Dream Challenge (Team USA vs. Team Russia).

Scoring the way it counts, by matches:

Scoring by games rather than matches:


Match Records of Individual players. For the following records, I counted a full win or loss for each player in each match (i.e., not splitting the point into fifths for the teams match or halves for doubles matches). So these numbers essentially answer the question: "In how many winning and losing matches was each player involved?"


Another way of looking at the match records is to count a full point for each player in a singles win or loss, half a point for each player in a doubles win or loss, and one-fifth of a point for each player in a team win or loss. So the following numbers essentially answer the question: "What numerical contribution did each player make to the overall Dream Challenge match scores?"



Game Records of Individual Players. Counting half a point for each player in a doubles win or loss (so the totals will add to 127 games), here are the individual records for games won and lost (including the 8 games played in the teams match):

Team USA won 9 of the 17 lags -- 5 of 6 on Day 1, 3 of 6 on Day 2, 1 of 5 on Day 3.

5 matches went hill/hill;Team USA won 3 and Team Russia won 2.

Team USA won 3 of the lags for the matches that went hill/hill and won 2 of those 3 matches.

Team Russia won 2 of the lags for the matches that went hill/hill and won 1 of those 2 matches.

But none of the 5 hill/hill games was won by B&R.

Vahmurka said:

Appreciate another excellent write-up AtLarge! (yet I suggest two words don't quite fit there, which is "Mosconi Cup" in one of the parts in bold) ...

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Thanks for letting me know about that (I edited it), and thanks for your other comments, too.

pt109 said:

AtLarge..........the break stats are a little better than I thought they would be...
...but still not impressive....do you think the conditions are tough for breaking?

Watched part of an 2018 Kremlin Cup match last night..Jones and Lutsker...
....in seven breaks, the only ball made was the cue ball.

Maybe the cloth loosened in transit?

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I didn't watch the Kremlin Cup (Orc./Cho. was plenty for me most of those days). That was 10-Ball, and I haven't checked whether they were using standard Diamonds there. The Diamond used for the Dream Challenge did not seem overly tight. And it seemed to me that Team USA's results for successful breaks (about 2 out of 3) and B&R's (about 4 out of 7 of the successful break) were pretty good. They were racking with a triangle rather than a template.