Format Premier League 16

Island Drive

Island Drive

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Premier League Pool Format

  • All 16 players face each other once across the first five days of play
  • After day five, the bottom 6 in the League Table are eliminated
  • The remaining 10 players face each other again across days six and seven before 4 more players are eliminated
  • The remaining 6 play each other once more on day eight before the top four contend the playoffs
  • All group matches race to 5, alternate break
  • A win will give a player a point on league table ????
  • After points, the table will be determined by Rack Difference then Racks Won followed by Head-to-Head record if nothing can split players.
 
I like this format better than last year. Poor Albin last year looked like he was in pool purgatory or some sort of pool Groundhog Day.
 
Island Drive said:
Premier League Pool Format

  • All 16 players face each other once across the first five days of play
  • After day five, the bottom 6 in the League Table are eliminated
  • The remaining 10 players face each other again across days six and seven before 4 more players are eliminated
  • The remaining 6 play each other once more on day eight before the top four contend the playoffs
  • All group matches race to 5, alternate break
  • A win will give a player a point on league table ????
  • After points, the table will be determined by Rack Difference then Racks Won followed by Head-to-Head record if nothing can split players.
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The table is the points chart not a pool table.
 
Here is the lineup for the League which starts play on the 14th. Tough field. With a full round-robin (everyone plays everyone else) at the start, there's going to be a great, steaming pile of good matches.
  1. Albin Ouschan (AUSTRIA)
  2. David Alcaide (SPAIN)
  3. Shane Van Boening (USA)
  4. Max Lechner (AUSTRIA)
  5. Aloysius Yapp (SINGAPORE)
  6. Naoyuki Oi (JAPAN)
  7. Joshua Filler (GERMANY)
  8. Eklent Kaçi (ALBANIA)
  9. Alexander Kazakis (GREECE)
  10. Omar Al-Shaheen (KUWAIT)
  11. Jayson Shaw (SCOTLAND)
  12. Oliver Szolnoki (HUNGARY)
  13. Skyler Woodward (USA)
  14. Francisco Sanchez Ruiz (SPAIN)
  15. Mieszko Fortunski (POLAND)
  16. Kelly Fisher (ENGLAND)
 
Bob Jewett said:
Here is the lineup for the League which starts play on the 14th. Tough field. With a full round-robin (everyone plays everyone else) at the start, there's going to be a great, steaming pile of good matches.) ...
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Yeah, but they cut way back this year. Instead of the 192 matches in last year's Championship League Pool event, they'll have only 183 matches this year in Premier League Pool (if I counted correctly; and why the change in name, although I like the new one better because it is shorter.). And the event winner will have to play 31 matches. Last year it was possible to win the event by playing just 16 matches (didn't happen, with Albin playing approximately a zillion).

Actually, I like the new format better. But it's a long slog, 8 days, with a first prize of just $20,000. Maybe that will rise in the future. The CSI events, just 4 days each, are paying more than that for first place. Of course, the League Pool pays something to all 16 players. And maybe this event could eventually become something like the FedEx Cup in golf (although with a lot less money), to determine the year's champion.

And speaking of the US Pro Billiard Series, the Wisconsin event ends on the 12th and the League event starts on the 14th. Al-Shaheen,
Fortunski, and Kazakis are listed for both events. Lots of travel by some folks these days!
 
quite a marathon. i don't think filler, yapp, svb, shaw played last year so it sure will be tougher for albin this year.
 
skogstokig said:
quite a marathon. i don't think filler, yapp, svb, shaw played last year so it sure will be tougher for albin this year.
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Right. Seven repeaters from last year: Alcaide, Fisher, Fortunski, Kaçi, Kazakis, Oi, and A. Ouschan.
 
Last year, Spartan offered this excellent recap table of the results in 2021. This event, which had just nineteen entrants, paid over $5,000 to nine of them. The event had no entry fee and approximately $86,000 added, so the average participant was slated to win about $4,500 net of entry fee before the event even began. I don't believe any event in our sport offers $5,000 net of entry fee to about half of its field. At the Arizona Open, only four players out of the 64 (I think that was the field size) just four players cashed for over $5,000 net of entry fee. That's about 6% of the field. The Premier League is pretty easy action compared to nearly every event played during the pool year.



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Bob Jewett said:
Here is the lineup for the League which starts play on the 14th. Tough field. With a full round-robin (everyone plays everyone else) at the start, there's going to be a great, steaming pile of good matches.
  1. Albin Ouschan (AUSTRIA)
  2. David Alcaide (SPAIN)
  3. Shane Van Boening (USA)
  4. Max Lechner (AUSTRIA)
  5. Aloysius Yapp (SINGAPORE)
  6. Naoyuki Oi (JAPAN)
  7. Joshua Filler (GERMANY)
  8. Eklent Kaçi (ALBANIA)
  9. Alexander Kazakis (GREECE)
  10. Omar Al-Shaheen (KUWAIT)
  11. Jayson Shaw (SCOTLAND)
  12. Oliver Szolnoki (HUNGARY)
  13. Skyler Woodward (USA)
  14. Francisco Sanchez Ruiz (SPAIN)
  15. Mieszko Fortunski (POLAND)
  16. Kelly Fisher (ENGLAND)
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Kelly fisher is surrounded by murderers on all sides. She’s a badass though.

Where can we watch this go down?
 
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