Here are some aggregate stats from the World Cup of Pool played May 9-14, 2021 at Stadium MK in Milton Keynes, England. Team Germany (Joshua Filler and Christoph Reintjes) won the event.
This was a 6-day, single-elimination event with 32 2-person teams from 30 countries (3 teams were from Great Britain) playing scotch doubles. Two sessions were played each day, starting at noon and 5:30 pm England time. Six matches were played on each of the first 4 days, reducing the field to 8 teams. The quarterfinals were played on Day 5, and the semifinals and finals were played on Day 6.
Pay-per-view streaming was provided in the USA by DAZN. The main commentators were Phil Yates and Karl Boyes (when he wasn't playing), with several of the other players also commentating on one or more matches. The referees were John Leyman and Marcel Eckardt.
I watched 19 of the 31 matches, skipping the first session on each of the first 4 days. So the stats shown here are for those 19 matches (229 games), which represented 61% of the total of 31 matches played and 66% of the total games played.
Conditions -- the conditions for this event included the following:
The 19 matches tracked were as follows, shown in the order in which they were played.
Sun. May 9, 2021
Mon. May 10
Tues. May 11
Wed. May 12
Thurs. May 13 (all Quarterfinal matches)
Fri. May 14
Overall results
Here's a breakdown of the 229 games (for match winners and losers combined).
9-Balls on the break -- 4 game-winning 9-balls were made on the break, 1.7% of all 229 breaks.
This was a 6-day, single-elimination event with 32 2-person teams from 30 countries (3 teams were from Great Britain) playing scotch doubles. Two sessions were played each day, starting at noon and 5:30 pm England time. Six matches were played on each of the first 4 days, reducing the field to 8 teams. The quarterfinals were played on Day 5, and the semifinals and finals were played on Day 6.
Pay-per-view streaming was provided in the USA by DAZN. The main commentators were Phil Yates and Karl Boyes (when he wasn't playing), with several of the other players also commentating on one or more matches. The referees were John Leyman and Marcel Eckardt.
I watched 19 of the 31 matches, skipping the first session on each of the first 4 days. So the stats shown here are for those 19 matches (229 games), which represented 61% of the total of 31 matches played and 66% of the total games played.
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);
- winner breaks from anywhere behind the head string;
- no illegal break rule;
- 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 19 matches tracked were as follows, shown in the order in which they were played.
Sun. May 9, 2021
1. Russia (Gorst, Lutsker) defeated Switzerland (Regli, Jungo) 7-4
2. Greece (Kazakis, Malai) d. Serbia (Pecelj, Klasovic) 7-2
3. Estonia (Grabe, Magi) d. Belgium (Lannoye, Das) 7-5
Mon. May 10
4. Italy (Petroni, Corrieri) d. Spain (Alcaide, Sanchez-Ruiz) 7-4
5. Germany (Filler, Reintjes) d. Lithuania (Labutis, Zadeikis) 7-4
6. Kuwait (Al Shaheen, Alawadhi) d. Poland (Fortunski, Szewczyk) 7-3
Tues. May 11
7. USA (Woodward, Thorpe) d. Australia (Sajich, Li) 7-2
8. Great Britain C (Appleton, Boyes) d. South Africa (R. Halliday, Faul) 7-5
9. Great Britain A (Shaw, Melling) d. Belarus (Fefilova, Y. Halliday) 7-4
Wed. May 12
10. Great Britain C d. Greece 7-4
11. Philippines (Deluna, Gomez) d. USA 7-5
12. Estonia d. Great Britain A 7-6
Thurs. May 13 (all Quarterfinal matches)
13. Slovakia d. Japan (Oi, Yoshioka) 9-8
14. Great Britain C d. Netherlands (Feijen, Bijsterbosch) 9-1
15. Germany d. Denmark (Krause, Lotfy) 9-5
16. Estonia d. Philippines 9-4
Fri. May 14
17. Great Britain C d. Slovakia 9-0 (Semifinal)
18. Germany d. Estonia 9-7 (Semifinal)
19. Germany d. Great Britain C 11-7 (Final)
Overall results
Successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul):
Match winners -- 83% (114 of 138)
Match losers -- 71% (65 of 91)
Total -- 78% (179 of 229)
Breaking side won the game:
Match winners -- 71% (98 of 138)
Match losers -- 44% (40 of 91)
Total -- 60% (138 of 229)
Break-and-run games on all breaks:
Match winners -- 32% (44 of 138)
Match losers -- 14% (13 of 91)
Total -- 25% (57 of 229)
Break-and-run games on successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul):
Match winners -- 39% (44 of 114)
Match losers -- 20% (13 of 65)
Total -- 32% (57 of 179)
Here's a breakdown of the 229 games (for match winners and losers combined).
Breaker made at least one ball and did not foul:
Breaking side won the game: 115 (50% of the 229 games)
Breaking side lost the game: 64 (28%)
Breaker fouled on the break:
Breaking side won the game: 8 (3%)
Breaking side lost the game: 2 (1%)
Breaker broke dry (without fouling):
Breaking side won the game: 15 (7%)
Breaking side lost the game: 25 (11%)
Therefore, whereas the breaking side won 60 (138 of 229) of all games,
It won 64% (115 of 179) of the games in which the break was successful (made at least one ball and did not foul).
It won 46% (23 of 50) of the games in which the break was unsuccessful (fouled or dry).
9-Balls on the break -- 4 game-winning 9-balls were made on the break, 1.7% of all 229 breaks.
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