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:
■ 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):
■ Breaker won game:
■ Break-and-run games -- on all breaks:
■ Games won by player who scored the first point
■ Games in which the player had the lead at some point
■ 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.
■ Distribution of run-outs to win the games. Counts are given for Pagulayan first, then Bustamante, then the total.
■ Distribution of approximate lengths of games
■ Distribution of number of innings in the games
■ Match length (including racking and timeouts) -- 4 hours, 51 minutes
■ Average minutes per game -- 10.0 (approx. 9.3 not counting timeouts
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
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