Balls Per Inning

[Rich93]

Is there a convention for calculating average balls per inning? The Billiard Buddy scoring app for iPhones and iPads computes the inning average. It counts as an inning one which consists of a single safety shot, so if you have a lot of safety play in your game your inning average won't look very good.

On the other hand, it doesn't seem right to simply exclude innings ended by a safety because you might have made 50 balls in an inning, got stuck and played a safety. So I'm guessing that single shot safeties probably count as an inning also but would like confirmation that this is how it was computed in the heyday of straight pool.

Does anybody know? Bob Jewett?

 

[Ratta]

"Here" you calculate just the complete innings including safetys and fouls. And in my opinion that s the only correct way.

 

[3andstop]

I wish there were a way to calculate brain cramps per inning, if it wasn't for them I might never miss!

 

[baboon]

It counts as an inning one which consists of a single safety shot, so if you have a lot of safety play in your game your inning average won't look very good.

That´s why it´s rather difficult to keep the inning average above a certain level. This season i played 13 games - race to 125. Won 12, lost 1. Inning average is 8,79 which i consider ok. Everything above 10 for a whole season - in our case about 20 games - is really good. If you are just going for the average it´s rather easy but winning the games and keeping the average high... well

 

[Rich93]

"Here" you calculate just the complete innings including safetys and fouls. And in my opinion that s the only correct way.

Thanks. That's the way Billiard Buddy does it.

 

[TSW]

Innings counts include safeties and fouls.

This is why "balls per inning," in isolation, is not a very illuminating stat at all.

The 14.1 Challenge at the Super Billiards Expo this year will be based on balls per inning in an offense-only format. The results should be very interesting.

 

[Ratta]

Like baboon shown up: an average from almost 9 is damn strong bud


Once upon s time (lmao sounds better than decades ago)
I was ranked in the team league on 8th place. The guys above me had higher averages but lost more games. I won all games except one.

Average is for sure an indicator to rate a players strength/skill but not the holy gral
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[dmgwalsh]

My game generally gets in the 3bpi range. That is my usual game. Sometimes I get up to 5,6,7 but not often.

In my defense though, I am not afraid to take a safe or a foul.

In one match to 100 in our league tournament, I had 43 safes and won 100-86.

 

[SpiderWebComm]

I think a good stat is to take 10 attempts and start with a break shot and see how many you can run each time and then average them. That's a useful stat, imo.

BPI is worthless, imo.

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