I don't track with drills or anything like that, but since I play a lot if tournaments I will right down my finishes.
How Do You Track Your Progression As A Player?
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I don't track with drills or anything like that, but since I play a lot if tournaments I will right down my finishes.
Why and here's a pic of Thurston teaching Gilligan the finer points of CTE. But I still don't see any Thorsten character - maybe he was a guest on "Swiss Family Robinson"?
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Awesome pic! Somehow I don't remember this, but thanks!
I have been working hard on the focus aspect of my game. I have noticed that my game has improved. No real test. Just based on how I played. I have another area of my game that really lacks. That's when you feel you out played your opponent but still lost. Feeling they got lucky rolls some times it's perception some times it's true. I need to learn to shake my opponents hand with a smile and maybe adding good match and walk away. I guess I get caught up in my own frustration I don't always give the proper respect. Had a player tell me. Look man its not like I am doing it on purpose. I guess for me. I rather work on that aspect of my game the most. Probably help the rest of my game.
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the easiest track of progress is beating the ghost at 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9 ball
as you go up a ball you have progressed...
I have a question about this. When I am playing alone, I just play 9 ball ghost, as in rack 9, break, take BIH. I used to be at 3 maybe 4 ball runs if I made one on the break. Now I'm up to 5 maybe 6-7 if I make one or 2 on the break.
A couple of people have said "start playing the 5 ball or 6 ball ghost". Does that mean you are racking 5 or 6 balls or still racking 9?
The way I track progress is slightly more indirect than some of the previous posters. When I play tournaments (small weekly tourneys or bigger ones), I will write down all matches and results in a small notebook maybe 3" X 5"? At the top of the page I'll write what the game is, race is, and field size. Then underneath that, I will write down who I play and what the final score was. Then sometimes at the bottom I will write notes about how I played and if I had a particularly great match where I didn't miss or a bad match. If I cash I will also track what place I took and how much. This obviously doesn't track progress like the ghost does or some of the other methods but over the course of time you can see how your finishing in big and small events. What I really like about this is you can see how you do against the same opponents over a period of time. This is especially true for weekly tourneys but surprisingly in bigger tourneys I have played some of the same people multiple times in field sizes of 120 plus. Especially if I'm playing someone who I've lost to in the past I get a little extra motivated to beat them next time. I played someone a couple years back at a tourney in ND and played well, winning 5-3. The guy I played didn't know it but I had played him about 10 years prior at a casino tourney in SD and drew him in both 9ball and 8ball getting killed in both matches. I mentioned this to him afterwards and he didn't even remember playing me, which I can completely understand because I wasn't a threat to beat him at the time. I had improved alot by the time I beat him in our 3rd matchup, but the extra motivation definetely helped. I started doing this a couple years ago and took a couple days and actually backlogged tourneys going back to when I started playing in them around 2001 and it's great to see the progress I've made. This is something that has helped me and will be fun to look at 20 years from now.
I think to get the most "realistic" spreads, you should rack all 9. Then you can take off the last 4 balls.
This helps you learn the 9b break which is a useful skill even if you can't run out yet.
You could leave the extra balls as 'traffic' too. That definitely makes it harder. I personally remove them.
There are actual 6 ball and 7 ball games with their own unique racking patterns,
but I wouldn't bother learning them because nobody plays those games anyway.
6 ball is actually harder to make a ball on the break than 9 ball. 7 ball may be the easiest break ever.
You could also just roll out 5 or 6 balls on the table randomly.
You lose the break practice but you can play more racks if you've only got a little time to practice.