Break Stats -- Accu-Stats 2016 "Make It Happen" 8-Ball Invitational, November 2016
Here are some stats from the Accu-Stats "Make It Happen" 8-Ball Invitational played November 17-20, 2016 at Sandcastle Billiards in Edison, NJ with pay-per-view streaming by Accu-Stats.
This was a 6-player event, with 15 round-robin matches (races to 10) followed by a playoff match between the 2 players with the best records. The tie-breaker for getting into the finals for players with the same records in matches was the number of games won. The six players were: Darren Appleton, Corey Deuel, John Morra, Rodney Morris, Jayson Shaw, and Shane Van Boening.
The conditions for this event included:
The 16 matches were as follows (shown in the order in which they were played).
Thurs., Nov. 17
Fri., Nov. 18
Sat., Nov. 19
Sun., Nov. 20
Playoff match -- Shaw defeated Van Boening 10-4. So, including the playoff match, their records were both 4-2 in matches. In games, Shaw was 54-35 (61%) and Van Boening was 53-50 (51%).
Overall results for all 16 matches -- The breaker made at least one ball (and did not foul) 73% of the time (182 of 251), won 55% of the games (139 of 251), and broke and ran 41% of the games (102 of 251).
Here's a more detailed breakdown of the 251 games.
Break-and-run games: The 102 break-and-run games represented 41% of all 251 games, 73% of the 139 games won by the breaker, and 56% of the 182 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 102 break-and-run games (including 8-balls on the break) consisted of 4 alternate-break 4-packs (1 each by Appleton, Deuel, Morra, and Shaw), 6 alternate-break 3-packs, 17 alternate-break 2-packs, and 34 singles.
8-balls on the break:
The 102 break-and-run games included 2 8-balls on the break (0.8% of the 251 breaks).
Here are some stats from the Accu-Stats "Make It Happen" 8-Ball Invitational played November 17-20, 2016 at Sandcastle Billiards in Edison, NJ with pay-per-view streaming by Accu-Stats.
This was a 6-player event, with 15 round-robin matches (races to 10) followed by a playoff match between the 2 players with the best records. The tie-breaker for getting into the finals for players with the same records in matches was the number of games won. The six players were: Darren Appleton, Corey Deuel, John Morra, Rodney Morris, Jayson Shaw, and Shane Van Boening.
The conditions for this event included:
- Diamond 9-foot table with blue Simonis 860 cloth;
- Aramith Tournament balls with the measles cue ball;
- breaker racks using the Accu-Rack racking template;
- alternate breaks from anywhere behind the head string;
- 45-sec. shot clock (90 sec. after the break), with one automatic extension per player per rack;
- take the group you make more of on the break (table open if breaker made same number of each group, or fouled, or broke dry);
- ball in hand behind the line after a foul on the break;
- call shots, except making the 8-ball on the break counts as a win;
- foul on all balls;
- jump cues not allowed;
- lag for opening break.
The 16 matches were as follows (shown in the order in which they were played).
Thurs., Nov. 17
Appleton defeated Deuel 10-4
Van Boening d. Morris 10-8
Shaw d. Morra 10-0
Deuel d. Van Boening 10-9
Fri., Nov. 18
Morra d. Morris 10-7
Shaw d. Appleton 10-6
Van Boening d. Morra 10-8
Deuel d. Morris 10-8
Sat., Nov. 19
Morris d. Shaw 10-7
Morra d. Appleton 10-5
Shaw d. Deuel 10-5
Van Boening d. Appleton 10-7
Sun., Nov. 20
Deuel d. Morra 10-3
Appleton d. Morris 10-3
Van Boening d. Shaw 10-7
Shaw d. Van Boening 10-4 (playoff match)
Records in round-robin play (5 matches per player; excludes playoff match).• Van Boening -- 4-1 in matches [49-40 in games (winning percentage in games of 55%)]
• Shaw -- 3-2 [44-31 (59%)]
• Deuel -- 3-2 [39-40 (49%)]
• Appleton -- 2-3 [38-37 (51%)]
• Morra -- 2-3 [31-42 (42%)]
• Morris -- 1-4 [36-47 (43%)]
Playoff match -- Shaw defeated Van Boening 10-4. So, including the playoff match, their records were both 4-2 in matches. In games, Shaw was 54-35 (61%) and Van Boening was 53-50 (51%).
Overall results for all 16 matches -- The breaker made at least one ball (and did not foul) 73% of the time (182 of 251), won 55% of the games (139 of 251), and broke and ran 41% of the games (102 of 251).
Here's a more detailed breakdown of the 251 games.
Breaker made at least one ball and did not foul:
Breaker won the game: 121 (48% of the 251 games)
Breaker lost the game: 61 (24%)
Breaker fouled on the break:
Breaker won the game: 3 (1%)
Breaker lost the game: 14 (6%)
Breaker broke dry (without fouling):
Breaker won the game: 15 (6%)
Breaker lost the game: 37 (15%)
Therefore, whereas the breaker won 55% (139 of 251) of all games,
He won 66% (121 of 182) of the games in which he made at least one ball on the break and did not foul.
He won 18% (3 of 17) of the games in which he fouled on the break.
He won 29% (15 of 52) of the games in which he broke dry but did not foul.
He won 26% (18 of 69) of the games in which he either fouled on the break or broke dry without fouling.
Break-and-run games: The 102 break-and-run games represented 41% of all 251 games, 73% of the 139 games won by the breaker, and 56% of the 182 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 102 break-and-run games (including 8-balls on the break) consisted of 4 alternate-break 4-packs (1 each by Appleton, Deuel, Morra, and Shaw), 6 alternate-break 3-packs, 17 alternate-break 2-packs, and 34 singles.
8-balls on the break:
The 102 break-and-run games included 2 8-balls on the break (0.8% of the 251 breaks).
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