Day 2 - Summary - Shane vs Mika - TAR 19

Wow,they both won 35 on day 2.If only Mika could get his break going this would come down to the wire.
Thanks for the stats Cali,great job.
 
Also,in all due respect to Mika,Shane is getting alot more rolls.Even when Shane misses a shot he hooks Mika.I feel bad for Mika,nothing has gone his way.
Plus I have money on him.:eek:
C'mon Mika.lol
 
break %'s

Shane broke dry 6 out of 70 times, or 8.57% of the time. Mika broke dry 25 out of 60 times, or 41.66% of the time. This is a crucial statistic. Last year I met John Mars right before the Shane/Scott Frost TAR, and he said Shane practices the break religiously and has the best break he has seen so far. I am not interested in discussing the breaks of other players, but in this match, the difference in breaking could be the deciding factor.
 
jimmy-leggs said:
Also,in all due respect to Mika,Shane is getting alot more rolls.Even when Shane misses a shot he hooks Mika.I feel bad for Mika,nothing has gone his way.
Plus I have money on him.:eek:
C'mon Mika.lol
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There's no question in my mind that Shane has gotten the better of the rolls. However, I see Shane playing super strong 2 ways and IMO some viewers misread these as lucky rolls, when really they are not.

Shanes CB control has been superior to Mika's. Add this along with his superior break and frankly I'm surprised Mika is only down 10 racks. I just don't think Shane is being pushed to bring out his consistent best. I see him cruising at many junctures in this match.

Seems when Mika cuts the deficit to 6 or 7, THEN Shane puts together some racks.
 
Great summary. Shane will win because of his break and his behavior. It was not a good sight to watch Mika get so angry. I would love to see my opponent go squirley like that. It would defiantly calm my nerves to know they are struggling. Does Mika do this in tournaments?
 
oh..... what the hell.... how about some STATS on the STATS?:eek::)

Make what you will of it. It's my webstats of my website that the stats are hosted on. What do we learn??? Well, there was 20k hits on my site from 833 different visitors from 33 countries where 83% use Windows and 42% use Firefox as their browser.

Digging around in there, I can see where people come from, it was interesting to see a bunch of different forums in different countries where they have some threads on this matchup.
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dorabelle said:
Great summary. Shane will win because of his break and his behavior. It was not a good sight to watch Mika get so angry. I would love to see my opponent go squirley like that. It would defiantly calm my nerves to know they are struggling. Does Mika do this in tournaments?
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OK. I think I need to make an observation... Mika is an emotional player.. Not extreme like some we know like "The Pearl". But his "emotion" is his "coach", his adviser of what not to do next time. When we watch football and a player totally misses a catch, like missing an easy shot, does he walk away stoic? Emotionless?... I think not, he is holding his helmet, pounding the ground, belting out bad words I am sure.

Mika is Mika... He is passionate about his game just like Shane is but shows it differently. At least you know what Mika is thinking when he has emotion... And not trying to think what he is going through or believing what a lousy commentator is telling what he is going through.

I, for one, do not want "robots" playing this game.... Robots, are boring.

And If some of you have experienced what I call the "dungeon" at the SBExpo after 12midnight... You know what I mean. That is excitement, watching "Scooter" heckle the crowd and beat players out of money and watch Scooter get beat up by a new kid..

So, don't criticize the emotions of a player who, when it comes to the end of the game, shows "Sportsmanship" and exudes ambassadorship to the sport of billiards.

Just MHO!
 
abbassi said:
Mika was aroung 55 games and the 10 ball was 1/2 diamond from brunswick cue directly accross. He calls side pocket (Golf Shot) 3 rail 2 way shot that went in heart of pocket.

The other highlight was Shane getting Mika on the 3 fouls to win the game.
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I was almost dead asleep and saw that 3 rail into the side shot through mostly closed eyes. When he hit it I jumped out of bed and said "WHAT THE &%$#@!!!" :yikes: That was a pretty amazing save on the 10 ball.
 
KoolKat9Lives said:
There's no question in my mind that Shane has gotten the better of the rolls. However, I see Shane playing super strong 2 ways and IMO some viewers misread these as lucky rolls, when really they are not.

Shanes CB control has been superior to Mika's. Add this along with his superior break and frankly I'm surprised Mika is only down 10 racks. I just don't think Shane is being pushed to bring out his consistent best. I see him cruising at many junctures in this match.

Seems when Mika cuts the deficit to 6 or 7, THEN Shane puts together some racks.
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Agreed. There were some 2 way shots that worked well for him in the match. I don't recall many blatant sell-out shots (my achilles hell in my game); that would be an interesting category to track since they can lead to package.
 
"CaliRed". said:
oh..... what the hell.... how about some STATS on the STATS?:eek::)

Make what you will of it. It's my webstats of my website that the stats are hosted on. What do we learn??? Well, there was 20k hits on my site from 833 different visitors from 33 countries where 83% use Windows and 42% use Firefox as their browser.

Digging around in there, I can see where people come from, it was interesting to see a bunch of different forums in different countries where they have some threads on this matchup.
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Something that jumped out at me was the hits from Nicaragua. Shane must have garnered some fans there after his recent win there. :cool:
 
"CaliRed". said:
Allright then.... we're done with Day 2. We started at 6:30 est and ended at 2:30 am with about a 1/2 hour break. So about 7 1/2 hours of pool for 70 games. That's right, they each won 35 games today.

Score is Shane 70 , Mika 60.

First, Fatboy suggested I should have a Dry Rack field and since the 10 ball on the break column wasn't being used for this match, I swapped it out and make a Dry Break column. Something to keep in mind, that if someone scratches on the break, there is no entry for it being a Dry Break, since the shooter did not give up the table due to a Dry Break. So while there may be more Dry Breaks, that it was, was not a factor in that game. I have went back and tallied up all the Dry Breaks from Day 1 and Day 2.

The tale of the tape today, was pretty much Shane's steady play. The lead see-sawed back and forth from 12 up at one point to only about 6 up or so. At one point right before the break at 9:30, Mika was on a roll and had one 5 in a row. Mika wanted to play another game of course.

In those 5 games he won, all of them were ones Shane missed a ball in. In the final game before the break, Shane made a very careless mistake and actually hooked himself with only the 9 and 10 on the table, so that was a real gimme.

They come back from the break and Shane reels off a couple of break and runs, a couple of games go by and Shane reels off 3 more Break and Runs. So he lost 5 right before the break, but made them right up after the break.

Mika, once again, just couldn't get it going. He is just not running racks. He gets out of line on too many shots or misses makeable balls. His safety battles with Shane, usually come out with Shane on top. Shane is also locking him real good on safeties.

Shane is playing pretty solid except for some misses.

The break is still a major factor along with Shane's more solid play.

The both had 35 breaks tonight and Shane had 4 Dry Breaks and Mika had 14. I believe Shane also had some scratches on his breaks too though.
Mika appeared to get his break working a little better right towards the end of the night.

So Shane got up on Mika 10 games the 1st day and they battled to a draw on Day 2, where Shane still has his 10 game lead going into Day 3.

Tomorrow Mika has to win 40 games before Shane wins 30.

Who's going to win? Will Mika mount a comeback? Will Shane continue to play solid and preserve his lead?

Stay Tuned !!!

complete stats can be found at www.oldpoolhall.com/tarupdates and here is a screenshot of the Totals so far.

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I think these updates are incredible!

Thanks for these stats!
 
TorranceChris said:
Something that jumped out at me was the hits from Nicaragua. Shane must have garnered some fans there after his recent win there. :cool:
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After the United States, Finland has the most hits (Mika fans?). I'm surprised that there are more hits from Finland than from Canada. Did everyone from Canada drive down to watch the match at Amsterdam?:grin-square:

Interesting to note that 1 out of 10 OS recorded is a Mac, and Firefox made up 42% of the browsers.
 
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