Stats -- Pagulayan vs. Bustamante 9-Ball Banks Race to 16, May 2020

Here are some stats from the Alex Pagulayan vs. Francisco Bustamante 9-Ball Banks race to 16 played May 2, 2020 at Ray Hansen's home in Texas. Pay-per-view live streaming was provided by PoolActionTV.

This was Day 2 of a best-3-out-of-5 Champions Challenge All-Around match, with a different discipline played each day for up to 5 days. Remote commentary (by phone) was provided on Day 2 by Jeremy Jones. Ray Hansen also commentated, from a room in his home separate from the pool room.

Bustamante won the 15-Ball Filipino Rotation set on Day 1. Some stats on that set are available here: https://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=511474. Pagulayan won the Day 2 Banks set 16-13.

Conditions -- The conditions for this set included:

• - Diamond 9-foot table with standard pro-cut pockets and blue Simonis 860 HR cloth;
  - Aramith Tournament balls with a measles cue ball;
  - triangle rack;
  - winner breaks;
  - rack your own with the 1-ball on the spot;
  - any balls pocketed on the break are spotted at the end of the breaker's first inning;
  - jump cues not allowed;
  - no shot clock; and
  - lag for break (won by Pagulayan).

■ Pagulayan broke 16 times -- successful 6 times (resulting in 4 game wins and 2 losses), 1 foul (a loss), and 9 dry (5 wins, 4 losses).

■ Bustamante broke 13 times -- successful 7 times (resulting in 3 game wins and 4 losses), 1 foul (a loss), and 5 dry (3 wins, 2 losses).

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

• Pagulayan -- 6 of 16 (38%)
• Bustamante -- 7 of 13 (54%)
• Total -- 13 of 29 (45%)

■ Breaker won game:

• Pagulayan -- 9 of 16 (56%)
• Bustamante -- 6 of 13 (46%)
• Total -- 15 of 29 (52%)

■ Break-and-run games -- on all breaks:

• Pagulayan -- 0 of 16 (0%)
• Bustamante -- 1 of 13 (8%)
• Total -- 1 of 29 (3%)

■ Games won by player who scored the first point

• Pagulayan -- 11 of 15 (73%)
  Bustamante -- 9 of 14 (64%)
  Total -- 20 of 29 (69%)

■ Games in which the player had the lead at some point

• Pagulayan -- 21 games, his 16 wins plus 5 games he lost.
  Bustamante -- 19 games, his 13 wins plus 6 games he lost.

■ Bank counts by length of run -- The total bank counts resulted from the following runs and fouls. Counts are given for Pagulayan first, then Bustamante, then the total.

• 1 bank -- 36 times, 30 times, 66 times
  2 banks -- 15, 10, 25
  3 banks -- 4, 5, 9
  4 banks -- 3, 4, 7
  5 banks -- 3, 3, 6
  Minus fouls -- 5, 4, 9
  TOTAL bank count -- 100, 92, 192
  Average game score -- 5 - 1.7 for games won by Pagulayan, 5 - 1.5 for games won by Bustamante, 5 - 1.6 in total.

■ Distribution of run-outs to win the games. Counts are given for Pagulayan first, then Bustamante, then the total.

• 1 bank -- 10 times, 6 times, 16 times (55% of the 29 games)
  2 banks -- 2, 2, 4
  3 banks -- 0, 1, 1
  4 banks -- 1, 1, 2
  5 banks -- 3, 3, 6 (21%)
  Average (mean) "out" run -- 2.2 banks

■ Distribution of approximate lengths of games

• Under 5 minutes -- 7 games (24%)
  5 - 9 min. -- 9
  10 - 14 min. -- 9
  15 - 19 min. -- 3
  32 min. -- 1
  Total -- 29

■ Distribution of number of innings in the games

• 1 inning -- 4 (1 ended in the breaker's first inning and 3 ended in the non-breaker's first inning)
  2 - 5 innings -- 11 (7, 4)
  6 - 10 innings 7 (2, 5)
  11 - 15 innings 6 (4, 2)
  27 innings -- 1 (1, 0)
  Total -- 29 (15, 14)

■ Match length (including racking and timeouts) -- 4 hours, 51 minutes

■ Average minutes per game -- 10.0 (approx. 9.3 not counting timeouts

Game 7 was something.

• 32 minutes
  53 visits to the table (ended on breaker's 27th inning)
  63 shots taken
  • 1 opening break shot
    26 safes (approx.)
    24 misses (approx.)
    2 fouls
    10 balls pocketed