Here are a few aggregate stats from Matchroom's Predator Championship League Pool 9-Ball event played March 22-29, 2021 at Stadium MK in Milton Keynes, England. Albin Ouschan won the event.
This was an 8-day event that worked like this. On Day 1, 7 players all played each other once (round robin), then the top 4 finishers from the round robin played single-elimination (2 semifinal matches and a final match) to determine the day's winner. The winner secured a spot in the Winners' Group on Day 8. The player who finished last of the group of 7 was out of the tournament. The other 5 players moved on to Day 2 and were joined by two new players to make a new group of 7. This process continued for each of the first 7 days. So, in total, the event involved 19 players [7 on Day 1 + (2x6)], with 7 reaching Day 8. The format on Day 8 was the same as on the other days -- a round robin followed by 2 semifinal matches and the final match. All of the matches every day were races to 5.
Two tables were used for the event, and both were being streamed. Pay-per-view streaming of the main table, with commentary, was provided in the USA by DAZN. Streaming of the second table, without commentary, was available on matchroom.live. The main commentators were Michael McMullan and Karl Boyes; several of the players also commentated on one or more matches.
The 7 players who qualified for Day 8 with a win in Days 1-7 are shown here in their order of finish on Day 8:
Conditions -- the conditions for this event included the following:
The matches each day were played in two sessions, an afternoon (in England) session and an evening session. These stats are from the 49 matches (26% of the event's total of 192 matches) that I watched, which were all of the evening-session matches being streamed in full on DAZN. These 49 matches totaled 358 games. But the stats exclude 5 games from when my stream was down, leaving 353 games for the stats. All 19 players in the event appeared in the matches I tracked, ranging from 1 appearance (Darren Appleton and Jasmin Ouschan) to 14 appearances (Albin Ouschan).
Successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul):
Breaker won game:
Break-and-run games -- on all breaks:
Break-and-run games -- on successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul):
This was an 8-day event that worked like this. On Day 1, 7 players all played each other once (round robin), then the top 4 finishers from the round robin played single-elimination (2 semifinal matches and a final match) to determine the day's winner. The winner secured a spot in the Winners' Group on Day 8. The player who finished last of the group of 7 was out of the tournament. The other 5 players moved on to Day 2 and were joined by two new players to make a new group of 7. This process continued for each of the first 7 days. So, in total, the event involved 19 players [7 on Day 1 + (2x6)], with 7 reaching Day 8. The format on Day 8 was the same as on the other days -- a round robin followed by 2 semifinal matches and the final match. All of the matches every day were races to 5.
Two tables were used for the event, and both were being streamed. Pay-per-view streaming of the main table, with commentary, was provided in the USA by DAZN. Streaming of the second table, without commentary, was available on matchroom.live. The main commentators were Michael McMullan and Karl Boyes; several of the players also commentated on one or more matches.
The 7 players who qualified for Day 8 with a win in Days 1-7 are shown here in their order of finish on Day 8:
1. Albin Ouschan (Day 6 winner)
2. David Alcaide (Day 3 winner)
3/4. Eklent Kaçi (Day 2 winner)
3/4. Chris Melling (Day 1 winner)
5. Naoyuki Oi (Day 5 winner)
6. Marc Bijsterbosch (Day 7 winner)
7. Niels Feijen (Day 4 winner)
Conditions -- the conditions for this event included the following:
- Rasson OX 9-foot table;
- blue Simonis cloth;
- Aramith Tournament Black balls with a black-measles cue ball;
- referee racks using a triangle rack with the 1-ball on the foot spot (2-ball not necessarily in back location);
- alternate breaks from anywhere behind the head string;
- no illegal break rule;
- Days 1 and 2, no shot clock; Days 3-8, a 30-sec. shot clock (60 sec. after the break), with one 30-sec. extension per player per game;
- foul on all balls;
- jump cues allowed;
- lag for the break in each match; and
- all slop counts.
The matches each day were played in two sessions, an afternoon (in England) session and an evening session. These stats are from the 49 matches (26% of the event's total of 192 matches) that I watched, which were all of the evening-session matches being streamed in full on DAZN. These 49 matches totaled 358 games. But the stats exclude 5 games from when my stream was down, leaving 353 games for the stats. All 19 players in the event appeared in the matches I tracked, ranging from 1 appearance (Darren Appleton and Jasmin Ouschan) to 14 appearances (Albin Ouschan).
Successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul):
Day 1 -- 90% (45 of 50)
Day 2 -- 82% (36 of 44)
Day 3 -- 89% (42 of 47)
Day 4 -- 81% (29 of 36)
Day 5 -- 83% (38 of 46)
Day 6 -- 87% (33 of 38)
Day 7 -- 91% (42 of 46)
Day 8 -- 96% (44 0f 46)
Total -- 88% (309 of 353)
Breaker won game:
Day 1 -- 70% (35 of 50)
Day 2 -- 64% (28 of 44)
Day 3 -- 43% (20 of 47)
Day 4 -- 61% (22 of 36)
Day 5 -- 48% (22 of 46)
Day 6 -- 55% (21 of 38)
Day 7 -- 65% (30 of 46)
Day 8 -- 70% (32 of 46)
Total -- 59% (210 of 353)
Break-and-run games -- on all breaks:
Day 1 -- 52% (26 of 50)
Day 2 -- 34% (15 of 44)
Day 3 -- 21% (10 of 47)
Day 4 -- 31% (11 of 36)
Day 5 -- 30% (14 of 46)
Day 6 -- 29% (11 of 38)
Day 7 -- 37% (17 0f 46)
Day 8 -- 43% (20 of 46)
Total -- 35% (124 of 353)
Break-and-run games -- on successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul):
Day 1 -- 58% (26 of 45)
Day 2 -- 42% (15 of 36)
Day 3 -- 24% (10 of 42)
Day 4 -- 38% (11 of 29)
Day 5 -- 37% (14 of 38)
Day 6 -- 33% (11 of 33)
Day 7 -- 40% (17 of 42)
Day 8 -- 45% (20 of 44)
Total -- 40% (124 of 309)
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