Eagle Eye Takes Aim at 14.1 High Runs

There is one thing with all these high run challenges the past few years, they almost ALL have scoring errors. This is with people watching, video tape, etc. It gets corrected in the end, that is not my point. My point is you can bet the same scoring errors were happening 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago. So when someone says they had a run of xyz in practice, I'd take it with a grain of salt. Its easy to make a counting error!
 
iusedtoberich said:
There is one thing with all these high run challenges the past few years, they almost ALL have scoring errors. This is with people watching, video tape, etc. It gets corrected in the end, that is not my point. My point is you can bet the same scoring errors were happening 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago. So when someone says they had a run of xyz in practice, I'd take it with a grain of salt. Its easy to make a counting error!
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This is entirely true.

In fact my posted high run of 25 the other day may very well have been 26! . Seriously though; counting errors happen frequently.


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iusedtoberich said:
There is one thing with all these high run challenges the past few years, they almost ALL have scoring errors. This is with people watching, video tape, etc. It gets corrected in the end, that is not my point. My point is you can bet the same scoring errors were happening 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago. So when someone says they had a run of xyz in practice, I'd take it with a grain of salt. Its easy to make a counting error!
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Such a good point AND when you couple this with BC's opinion (that may very well be true) that many of yesteryear's best players really "didn't care about running balls" then you get a double grain of salt.
 
Not his best break shot.

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BeiberLvr said:
You don't need to be Phil Ivey to know going all in before the flop with 72 in the first hand of the WSOP is a bad play.

You don't need to be Tom Brady to know when a QB made a bad throw.

Why should pool be any different?

Knowledge and execution are both important. Just because someone (Jayson) is great at executing doesn't mean his knowledge is on the same level as his execution.

There are players who have better knowledge of 14.1 and patterns that I would bet against Jayson all day in this format.
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I think it is normal for pool junkies to discuss what and how these guys are doing their business on the table. The issue some of us have had is some are going a bit to far and too negative, particularly when Earl was up. As fans and as a group we are all no where close to the level of these champs. Bobby and the others involved are doing a great thing for pool and us so it seems wrong to be to critical of the endeavor or players.

It reminds me of the car scene I used to be very active in. Someone would show up with an amazing street car or car to run at "the illegals" and be crushing it... taking on all comers and winning too!....and off to side there were always these tool bags talking about how it is not so great, my uncle has something faster, there is this and that wrong with it blah blah blah blah...

It's a self awareness and respect thing.
 
Dead Money said:
I think it is normal for pool junkies to discuss what and how these guys are doing their business on the table. The issue some of us have had is some are going a bit to far and too negative, particularly when Earl was up. As fans and as a group we are all no where close to the level of these champs. Bobby and the others involved are doing a great thing for pool and us so it seems wrong to be to critical of the endeavor or players.

It reminds me of the car scene I used to be very active in. Someone would show up with an amazing street car or car to run at "the illegals" and be crushing it... taking on all comers and winning too!....and off to side there were always these tool bags talking about how it is not so great, my uncle has something faster, there is this and that wrong with it blah blah blah blah...

It's a self awareness and respect thing.
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Oh people can definitely take it too far.

I never doubted that he'd put up big numbers, and obviously I know he plays the correct shots more often than not. But that shouldn't mean his patterns, in those rare times they are subpar, should be free from being analyzed and critiqued just because he's a pro.
 
I guess I’m gonna have to get Facebook soon. Is there a link or something? I watched Shane that way but haven’t seen anything since. Maybe it changed.
 
BeiberLvr said:
Oh people can definitely take it too far.

I never doubted that he'd put up big numbers, and obviously I know he plays the correct shots more often than not. But that shouldn't mean his patterns, in those rare times they are subpar, should be free from being analyzed and critiqued just because he's a pro.
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I get it! (y)

14 racks and counting...
 
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