Pool-match scores can be deceptive. A shutout is not always the breeze that it would appear to be, because the score doesn’t (as an example) tell you how many of the games featured long safety battles or whether the winner just happened to drop only the 9-ball in all of the games (highly unlikely, but impossible to know from just the score). By the same token, a double-hill match is not always the nail-biting, back and forth struggle that its score might indicate, although double-hill matches do have a way of highlighting a pair of opponents who are evenly matched, or, at minimum, evenly matched on that day. Aggregate scores can be misleading as well. The fact that a competitor chalks up an aggregate, game-winning total that indicates, as an example, he/she won, on average, somewhere in the vicinity of three out of every four games played is not necessarily an indication that he/she swept through a field like a proverbial knife through soft butter.
In other words, pool’s funny that way. On any given day, a player can shoot very well and lose, while another player can shoot poorly and win. You can’t tell which it was from the score alone.
All things considered, BJ Ussery’s undefeated run through a field of 114 entrants who signed on to PremierBilliards.com TOP Tour’s $5,000-added, 4th Annual Ron Park Memorial at West End Billiards in Gastonia, NC this past Memorial Day weekend (May 27-28), was an impressive case of playing well and winning. He fell short of winning the ‘three-out-of-every-four games’ threshold noted above, but only by percentage points. He won 42 of his first 61 games (68.8%) and 14 of his last 16 (87%), to finish with an overall game-winning average of 72.7% (56-21). Just over half of his game losses, 11 of them, were recorded in just two matches. He faced seven opponents in eight matches and shut out three of them.
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In other words, pool’s funny that way. On any given day, a player can shoot very well and lose, while another player can shoot poorly and win. You can’t tell which it was from the score alone.
All things considered, BJ Ussery’s undefeated run through a field of 114 entrants who signed on to PremierBilliards.com TOP Tour’s $5,000-added, 4th Annual Ron Park Memorial at West End Billiards in Gastonia, NC this past Memorial Day weekend (May 27-28), was an impressive case of playing well and winning. He fell short of winning the ‘three-out-of-every-four games’ threshold noted above, but only by percentage points. He won 42 of his first 61 games (68.8%) and 14 of his last 16 (87%), to finish with an overall game-winning average of 72.7% (56-21). Just over half of his game losses, 11 of them, were recorded in just two matches. He faced seven opponents in eight matches and shut out three of them.
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