I post average match times in my stats threads. Of course, that is for only the matches streamed by Accu-Stats, with time clocks, rather than for the matches on the outer tables. But here is info from those threads.... I'd wager you could blame most of this year's woes on the smaller pocket sizes. Would be really interested to see an average match time this year vs previous years. Especially in banks.
10-Ball -- The average match time was a few minutes less this year than in any of the prior 6 years (that's as far back as I looked just now.)
Banks -- Only semifinal and final matches have been shown in recent years, too few to give any meaningful yearly averages. But in 2023, the 3 sets (2 in the finals) were 60, 36, and 63 minutes (avg. 53). The average of the semifinal and final matches for the prior 6 years (12 matches) was 57 minutes.
One-Pocket -- The average match time this year was much higher than in any of the prior 4 years (as far back as my 1P threads go). This was caused by 4 of the 18 streamed matches this year running over 2½ hours (versus none of that length the previous 3 years and 2 of that length 4 years ago).
9-Ball -- The average match length this year tied for lowest in the past 7 years. But the match loser won 2 or fewer games in 6 of the 13 streamed matches this year, and the average number of games per match was the lowest in the past 7 years.
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