FSR created his own tier, is what I mean. Obviously Filler is elite, but somehow FSR grabs all the prizes. I can't even tell what his edge is exactly, but he has an edge on all the others.
They start anybody that can get there at 20 an hour.
It shows character that you've backed down a bit here. The truth is that FSR has wowed you and he has wowed all of us. We're lucky to get to watch him in his prime.
That was 2005. He had run the last 5 racks to win it. Made the last 9 with the bridge. At the time he was being talked about. I think he even played the year before too.
It's cool if he ends up making $400k this year (should be much more in my opinion). The problem isn't what the very top players make, it's what the rests of the players make.
Yes, the top guys are doing well, but the drop off is brutal. Roland Garcia is #14 with $31,600, on pace for about $90,000/ year. I'd be surprised if travel expenses are less than $30,000, although I really don't know. That leaves $60,000, which is a decent income, until you consider the lack of stability and longevity. I don't know how much the lower ranked players get from sponsors, exhibitions, and money games. It's worth noting that most of the professional are under contract to teams to play for a full season, not the show up and pay an entry fee system that currently exists in pool. I'm not sure how pro tennis, golf, and bowling work, but those may be more useful models. I'd like to see a pro tour that the players qualify for, and then they get free entry and help with travel expenses. Perhaps have 52 pros and a dozen slots that amateurs could qualify for in a pre tournament.
LOL. Pool is not a mainstream sport. I'd guess that 95% of all competitive sports are not mainstream.
I'm sure the picture is a lot better if we include income besides tournament winnings, but when only a couple of dozen players are able to reasonably support themselves, it's a pretty bleak picture. Right now, there are more professional lottery winners. Heck, even chess (CHESS!?!) players have a better professional outlook.
They also have to travel constantly just to make peanuts. I'm sure that can be fun for a while when you're young but it gets old after a while, you need to be away from family and friends all the time and don't even get a decent income for doing that.
The AzB Money Leaderboard has him at $43,610 through the Scotty Townsend Memorial events that ended a week ago.
There is no two-year limit or anything for having a rating. What you may be thinking of is the modest recency requirement we have for being on the top-player lists. That is 150 games in the last two years.
Amen to that brother and part of the challenge is to make the poolroom a better place for the young folks.
If you go back to when billiards first became super popular ,first in France and England then in the United States Australia Canada Germany. There were many instances of fathers passing their knowledge along to their sons, or uncles to nephews. Some of the most famous were John Roberts Sr. and Jr and Charles Roberts, Jake Scaeffer Sr and Jr. Michael Phelan was Dudley Kavanaughs father in law and I can't remember who it was but one of his nephews was a champion, perhaps Maurice Daly . The Lindrums from Australia , The Dion Brothers from Canada . This lasted from about 1850 to the 1930s,
