Help with Pool Experiment

[David Marcus]

Help with Pool Experiment / Part 4

Need your help again...part 4

I would like to test a theory with the help of my fellow AZers. My theory is based on the premise that ranking a player as an A,B or C is at the very best subjective depending on where your own playing level is and just as importantly how you "perceive" your own playing level to be.
I would also submit that depending on where in the country or in the world that you play weighs in to your "regional ranking" system. Is an A player in Chicago the same as an A player in the South or vice versa?
Thirdly the question is whether you can accurately judge a players level simply by watching a brief sample of them playing or practicing?
I'll be very curious to hear what each of you think. Please watch the video below and post on this thread the level of player you think you are watching. Please try to stick to straight whole letter grades for the sake of this exercise.
Thanks in advance for your assistance in this experiment.

http://youtu.be/kX6-o5zEE2c

 

[Miss Spico]

I'd gauge him as a "B"

 

[Charlie Hustle]

Is it just me, or haven't you done this like 3-4 times already?

 

[voiceofreason]

Play the table and not the player and none of that will matter squat

 

[oldplayer]

Play the table and not the player and none of that will matter squat

X2 :thumbup:

 

[krupa]

Is it just me, or haven't you done this like 3-4 times already?

Yeah. I think this is the fourth "experiment" to demonstrate that opinions are subjective. shocking.

Edited to add: It would be more productive to look at ways to objectively measure a player's ability. There are a few already out there: Fargo and the Billiard University tests come to mind. Take people who are rated high and low, have them run through those tests and see if they score relative to their rankings. Ask others to do the same and see what happens. Again, people have already done this but it's worth a shot.

 

[DAVE_M]

Is it just me, or haven't you done this like 3-4 times already?

All part of the "experiment" he's conducting.

Edit -

I'd still rank the player an APA 4.

My reasons...

Elementary shots missed and position errors.

http://youtu.be/kX6-o5zEE2c?t=1m26s
http://youtu.be/kX6-o5zEE2c?t=3m1s
http://youtu.be/kX6-o5zEE2c?t=3m15s
http://youtu.be/kX6-o5zEE2c?t=3m29s
http://youtu.be/kX6-o5zEE2c?t=3m49s
http://youtu.be/kX6-o5zEE2c?t=12m24s

These two brilliant shots also.
http://youtu.be/kX6-o5zEE2c?t=13m20s

 

[eddie0776]

I agree with c player looking at all of the videos.

 

[lorider]

I agree with c player looking at all of the videos.

i been thinking of posting up one of me playing..... when i do ya'll will think i am 1 hellacious bar banger.

 

[eddie0776]

i been thinking of posting up one of me playing..... when i do ya'll will think i am 1 hellacious bar banger.

Load them up! I had some up at one time, start a thread and we can all put up a video of how we play.

 

[hlymnstr14]

right in the middle of a B. apa 9ball 6 I'd say.

 

[JoeyA]

I would rate him a B player.

JoeyA

 

[David Marcus]

Part Four

As asked for......part 4