Here are some aggregate break statistics from the Sandcastle 9-Ball Open played October 6-8, 2022 at Sandcastle Billiards in Edison, New Jersey. Pay-per-view live streaming was provided by Sandcastle through the On Site Pool Network. The main commentators were Neight Mindham and Mike DeMarco.
This was a 3-day, 64-player true double-elimination event. Aloysius Yapp won the tournament, defeating Chang Jung-Lin in the hill/hill first (and only) set of the final match.
Conditions -- The conditions for the matches streamed on the feature table in this event included:
The stats are for all 16 matches (178 games) shown on the feature streaming table. These 16 tracked matches represented 12.8% of the event's total of 125 matches played (1 match was forfeited), and are listed here in the order in which they were played. [Note: The statistics are for 172 games instead of 178, because the stream was down for all of the first 5 games and part of the 6th in Match 6 below.]
Thursday, October 6, 2022
Friday, Oct. 7
Saturday, Oct. 8
Overall results
Here's a breakdown of the 172 games (for match winners and losers combined).
Break-and-run games -- The 58 break-and-run games represented 34% of all 172 games, 64% of the 91 games won by the breaker, and 45% of the 129 games in which the break was successful (made a ball and didn't foul).
With alternating breaks, B&R "packages" of the normal type are not possible. But we can still look at the breaks of a given player and see how many he ran on his own successive breaks, and we can call these "alternate-break packages." The 58 break-and-run games consisted of 2 alternate-break 3-packs (1 each by Neuhausen and Corteza), 9 alternate-break 2-packs, and 34 singles. No one in these 16 matches broke and ran more than 3 games in a row on his own breaks.
9-balls on the break -- The 58 break-and-run games included 2 9-balls on the break (1.2% of all 172 breaks).
This was a 3-day, 64-player true double-elimination event. Aloysius Yapp won the tournament, defeating Chang Jung-Lin in the hill/hill first (and only) set of the final match.
Conditions -- The conditions for the matches streamed on the feature table in this event included:
- Diamond 9-foot table with 4½" corner pockets;
- New gold Simonis 760 (said one commentator) cloth;
- Aramith Tournament balls;
- Accu-Rack racking template;
- referee racks with the 9-ball on the foot spot (2-ball not necessarily in back location);
- alternate breaks from behind the head string in a central box (less than 2 diamonds wide);
- no 3-point (illegal-break) rule;
- foul on all balls (only on Day 3 for the last 8 players);
- jump cues allowed;
- 30-second shot clock (only on Day 3);
- all slop counts; and
- lag for opening break.
The stats are for all 16 matches (178 games) shown on the feature streaming table. These 16 tracked matches represented 12.8% of the event's total of 125 matches played (1 match was forfeited), and are listed here in the order in which they were played. [Note: The statistics are for 172 games instead of 178, because the stream was down for all of the first 5 games and part of the 6th in Match 6 below.]
Thursday, October 6, 2022
1. Carlo Biado defeated Jesus Atencio 7-6
2. Chang Jung-Lin d. Ko Pin-Yi 7-5
3. Josh Roberts d. Mickey Krause 7-3
4. Skyler Woodward d. Ko Ping-Chung 7-2
5. Francisco Sanchez-Ruiz d. Denis Grabe 7-4
Friday, Oct. 7
6. Phuc Long Nguyen d. Roberts 7-3
7. Shane Wolford d. Robbie Capito 7-6
8. Biado d. Woodward 7-2
9. John Morra d. Billy Thorpe 7-4
10. Moritz Neuhausen d. Francisco Sanchez-Ruiz 7-5
11. Biado d. Alex Kazakis 7-2
Saturday, Oct. 8
12. Lee Vann Corteza d. Neuhausen 7-6
13. Chang d. Wu Kun Lin 7-4
14. Aloysius Yapp d. Corteza 7-5 (Hotseat match)
15. Chang d. Corteza 7-3 (Semifinal)
16. Yapp d. Chang 7-6 (Final)
Overall results
Successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul):
Match winners -- 81% (72 of 89)
Match losers -- 69% (57 of 83)
Total -- 75% (129 of 172)
Breaker won the game:
Match winners -- 65% (58 of 89)
Match losers -- 40% (33 of 83)
Total -- 53% (91 of 172)
Break-and-run games on all breaks:
Match winners -- 43% (38 of 89)
Match losers -- 24% (20 of 83)
Total -- 34% (58 of 172)
Break-and-run games on successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul):
Match winners -- 53% (38 of 72)
Match losers -- 35% (20 of 57)
Total -- 45% (58 of 129)
Here's a breakdown of the 172 games (for match winners and losers combined).
Breaker made at least one ball and did not foul:
Breaker won the game: 78 (45% of the 172 games)
Breaker lost the game: 51 (30%)
Breaker fouled on the break:
Breaker won the game: 3 (2%)
Breaker lost the game: 12 (7%)
Breaker broke dry (without fouling):
Breaker won the game: 10 (6%)
Breaker lost the game: 18 (10%)
Therefore, whereas the breaker won 53% (91 of 172) of all games,
He won 60% (78 of 129) of the games in which the break was successful (made at least one ball and did not foul).
He won 30% (13 of 43) of the games in which the break was unsuccessful (fouled or dry).
Break-and-run games -- The 58 break-and-run games represented 34% of all 172 games, 64% of the 91 games won by the breaker, and 45% of the 129 games in which the break was successful (made a ball and didn't foul).
With alternating breaks, B&R "packages" of the normal type are not possible. But we can still look at the breaks of a given player and see how many he ran on his own successive breaks, and we can call these "alternate-break packages." The 58 break-and-run games consisted of 2 alternate-break 3-packs (1 each by Neuhausen and Corteza), 9 alternate-break 2-packs, and 34 singles. No one in these 16 matches broke and ran more than 3 games in a row on his own breaks.
9-balls on the break -- The 58 break-and-run games included 2 9-balls on the break (1.2% of all 172 breaks).
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