I made the score to far apart for my example. It could be 10 to 8 and no matter how you look at it the guy on the hill gets several free chances to break and run out or play safe whatever to win.
You made a good point though that in your example the weaker player may not even deserve to win if they have gotten themselves in such a hole.
Sometimes things happen though. I was playing in a tournament that was single elimination race to 11, 2 out of 3 sets. I am playing a guy named Bill Stegall, a real good player. He had beaten Buddy hall earlier in the tournament so this guy could play.
I lose my first set 11 to 2. The second set I am trailing like 9 to 3 and I go nuts and run out almost the whole set winning 11 to 10. The third set I blew him away and won the match.
The point being, the score is not always an honest indicator of what really happened. Unless you were there you don't know why it was what it was.
Buddy Hall once beat me 11 to 4 and I never missed a ball or made a mistake. I only failed to make a ball on the break a few times. He just ran rack after rack, I only go several turns at the table the whole match.
Sometimes s#it happens, although, lets face it, it's Buddy Hall. He can be a steamroller sometimes, there is nothing you can do.
