14.1 Stats -- 2021 Am. Straight Pool Championship, Round-Robin Matches, Oct. 2021

[AtLarge]

Here are some stats from the round-robin portion (group stage) of the 2021 American Straight Pool Championship played October 19-23 at Q-Master Billiards in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Free streaming was provided on the Facebook page "American 14.1 Straightpool Championship."

This is a 48-player event, with a 3-day round-robin portion (8 groups of 6 players each) reducing the field to 24 -- the top 3 players from each group. That will be followed by a single elimination stage to the end, with 8 players (based on round-robin results) having a bye in the first single-elimination round.

These stats are for all 10 matches streamed on the feature table in the round-robin portion of the event, and they represented 8.3% of the total of 120 matches played in this portion of the event. These matches were to 125 points, with the first 4 matches on Tues. Oct. 19, the next 4 on Wed. Oct. 20 and the last 2 on Thurs. Oct. 21.

The conditions for this event included:

- Diamond 9-foot table with blue Simonis cloth;​

- Aramith Tournament balls with a measles cue ball;​

- triangle rack;​

- rack your own;​

- foul on all balls;​

- no shot clock;​

- lag for opening break;​

- a player who reaches 125 points on a run of at least 100 may continue the run to try for bonus money.​

Attempted Scoring Innings means the player's total number of innings for the game minus the number of innings that he played only a safety or an intentional foul (no attempt to score a point).

PPI is Points Per Inning = total points scored in the game divided by the total number of innings in the game for that player. [Note: I call this measure Points Per Inning rather than Balls Per Inning to be a bit more precise in the definition, since the number of points a player is credited with in a game can be quite different from the number of balls he pocketed.]

PPASI is Points Per Attempted Scoring Inning = total points scored in the game divided by the number of Attempted Scoring Innings in the game for that player.

All information is given first for the match winner and then for the match loser (separated by a comma).

Match #1 -- Shane Van Boening defeated Denis Grabe 125 - 39
3 Highest Runs: (94 • 33&out • -), (36 • 3 • 1)
Total Innings: 5, 4
PPI (Points Per Inning): 25.0, 9.8
Attempted Scoring Innings: 2, 3
PPASI (Points Per Attempted Scoring Inning): 62.5, 13.0
Safeties: 2, 1
Fouls, intentional: 1, 1
Fouls, unintentional: 1, 0
Missed shots: 0, 2
Match Length: 76 min.
Points per Minute: 2.2

Match #2 -- Fedor Gorst d. Tony Robles 125 - 0
3 Highest Runs: (125&out, continued to 129 • - • -), (- • - • -)
Total Innings: 2, 2
PPI (Points Per Inning): 62.5, 0
Attempted Scoring Innings: 1, 0
PPASI (Points Per Attempted Scoring Inning): 125.0, -
Safeties: 1, 2
Fouls, intentional: 0, 0
Fouls, unintentional: 0, 0
Missed shots: 0, 0
Match Length: 69 min.
Points per Minute: 1.8


Match #3 -- Mario He d. Thorsten Hohmann 125 - 101
3 Highest Runs: (66&out • 41 • 12), (77 • 15 • 9)
Total Innings: 6, 5
PPI (Points Per Inning): 20.8, 20.2
Attempted Scoring Innings: 5, 3
PPASI (Points Per Attempted Scoring Inning): 25.0, 33.7
Safeties: 3, 2
Fouls, intentional: 0, 0
Fouls, unintentional: 1, 0
Missed shots: 1, 3
Match Length: 116 min.
Points per Minute: 1.9

Match #4 -- Albin Ouschan d. Konrad Juszczyszyn 125 - 26
3 Highest Runs: (118 • 7&out • 1), (20 • 4 • -)
Total Innings: 3, 3
PPI (Points Per Inning): 41.7, 8.7
Attempted Scoring Innings: 3, 2
PPASI (Points Per Attempted Scoring Inning): 41.7, 13.0
Safeties: 0, 1
Fouls, intentional: 0, 0
Fouls, unintentional: 1, 0
Missed shots: 1, 2
Match Length: 61 min.
Points per Minute: 2.5

Match #5 -- Ralph Eckert d. Lee Vann Corteza 125 - 84
3 Highest Runs: (50 • 25&out • 15), (56 • 15 • 7)
Total Innings: 18, 18
PPI (Points Per Inning): 6.9, 4.7
Attempted Scoring Innings: 10, 8
PPASI (Points Per Attempted Scoring Inning): 12.5, 10.5
Safeties: 4, 5
Fouls, intentional: 4, 6
Fouls, unintentional: 2, 2
Missed shots: 7, 5
Match Length: 118 min.
Points per Minute: 1.8

Match #6 -- Wiktor Zielinski d. Mika Immonen 125 - 78
3 Highest Runs: (43 • 32&out • 25), (55 • 23 • -)
Total Innings: 6, 6
PPI (Points Per Inning): 20.8, 13.0
Attempted Scoring Innings: 5, 4
PPASI (Points Per Attempted Scoring Inning): 25.0, 19.5
Safeties: 2, 2
Fouls, intentional: 0, 0
Fouls, unintentional: 1, 0
Missed shots: 2, 4
Match Length: 101 min.
Points per Minute: 2.0

Match #7 -- Joshua Filler d. Alex Pagulayan 125 - (-1)
3 Highest Runs: (125&out, continued to 213 • - • -), (1 • - • -)
Total Innings: 3, 3
PPI (Points Per Inning): 41.7, (-0.3)
Attempted Scoring Innings: 2, 1
PPASI (Points Per Attempted Scoring Inning): 62.5, (-1.0)
Safeties: 1, 2
Fouls, intentional: 0, 0
Fouls, unintentional: 0, 1
Missed shots: 1, 1
Match Length: 43 min.
Points per Minute: 2.9

Match #8 -- Max Lechner d. Ralf Souquet 125 - 80
3 Highest Runs: (67&out • 41 • 18), (35 • 25 • 21 )
Total Innings: 5, 4
PPI (Points Per Inning): 25.0, 20.0
Attempted Scoring Innings: 4, 4
PPASI (Points Per Attempted Scoring Inning): 31.3, 20.0
Safeties: 1, 0
Fouls, intentional: 0, 0
Fouls, unintentional: 1, 1
Missed shots: 2, 3
Match Length: 114 min.
Points per Minute: 1.8

Match #9 -- Ruslan Chinahov d. Oliver Szolnoki 125 - 34
3 Highest Runs: (95 • 22&out • 8), (21 • 12 • 1)
Total Innings: 9, 8
PPI (Points Per Inning): 13.9, 4.3
Attempted Scoring Innings: 4, 4
PPASI (Points Per Attempted Scoring Inning): 31.3, 8.5
Safeties: 4, 3
Fouls, intentional: 0, 0
Fouls, unintentional: 2, 0
Missed shots: 1, 4
Match Length: 77 min.
Points per Minute: 2.1

Match #10 -- Darren Appleton d. Corey Deuel 125 - 120
3 Highest Runs: (45 • 29 • 26), (38 • 29 • 26)
Total Innings: 17, 16
PPI (Points Per Inning): 7.4, 7.5
Attempted Scoring Innings: 8, 6
PPASI (Points Per Attempted Scoring Inning): 15.6, 20.0
Safeties: 6, 8
Fouls, intentional: 6, 2
Fouls, unintentional: 0, 1
Missed shots: 4, 5
Match Length: 116 min.
Points per Minute: 2.1

[Note: These stats are based on the "official" score for each match, which differed from my scoring in some cases.]

 

[AtLarge]

Here are some aggregate stats for the 10 matches streamed on the feature table in round-robin play (all games to 125 points):

Points per Inning

For match winners: 16.9​

For match losers: 8.1​

For both: 12.7​

Points per Attempted Scoring Inning

For match winners: 28.4​

For match losers: 16.0​

For both: 22.9​

Points per Miss or Unintentional Foul

For match winners: 44.6​

For match losers: 16.5​

For both: 29.2​

Average (mean) High Run

For match winners: 83​

For match losers: 34​

For both: 58​

Average (median) High Run

For match winners: 80.5​

For match losers: 35.5​

For both: 52.5​

Average number of innings per match

Total innings: 7.4 for match winners, 6.9 for match losers​

Attempted scoring innings: 4.4 for match winners, 3.5 for match losers​

Average (mean) match score: 125 - 56 (losers' scores ranged from (-1) to 120)

Average (mean) match length: 89 min. (range 43 min. - 118 min.)

Average (mean) points per minute: 2.0 (range 1.8 - 2.9)

 

[Bob Jewett]

The scoring was done in the Cuescore system with the players doing the scoring. The system doesn't work particularly well for 14.1 and some of the players used paper instead.