Here are some aggregate break statistics from the 2018 World Cup of Pool event (9-Ball) played May 15-20, 2018 in Shanghai China. This was a single-elimination tournament with 32 two-man teams from 31 countries (the home country had two entries). The China A team (Wu Jiaqing and Liu Haitao) defeated the team from Austria (Mario He and Albin Ouschan) 10-3 for the title.
Conditions -- The conditions for this event included:
I did not watch most of the 31 matches. But Matchroom Sport provided some stats at the end of most of the matches. So the stats presented here are based on that Matchroom data (aggregated), for those matches for which it was available on the YouTube recordings, plus similar information I determined for the other matches. So the stats are for all 31 matches played.
Successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul):
Breaker won the game:
Break-and-run games, on all breaks:
Break-and-run games, on successful breaks:
Average number of balls made on the break:
Missed shots:
Breaking fouls:
Other fouls:
Conditions -- The conditions for this event included:
- Xing Pai 9-foot table with blue Simonis 860 cloth;
- Aramith Tournament balls with a measles cue ball;
- triangle rack;
- referee racks with the 1-ball on the spot and the other balls racked randomly (except the 9-ball);
- winner breaks from anywhere behind the head string;
- jump cues allowed;
- foul on all balls;
- 30-second shot clock with one 30-sec. extension per team per rack; and
- all slop counts.
I did not watch most of the 31 matches. But Matchroom Sport provided some stats at the end of most of the matches. So the stats presented here are based on that Matchroom data (aggregated), for those matches for which it was available on the YouTube recordings, plus similar information I determined for the other matches. So the stats are for all 31 matches played.
Successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul):
• Match winners -- 77% (167 of 216)
• Match losers -- 76% (96 of 126)
• Both -- 77% (263 of 342)
Breaker won the game:
• Match winners -- 71% (154 of 216)
• Match losers -- 38% (48 of 126)
• Both -- 59% (202 of 342)
Break-and-run games, on all breaks:
• Match winners -- 33% (72 of 216)
• Match losers -- 15% (19 of 126)
• Both -- 27% (91 of 342)
Break-and-run games, on successful breaks:
• Match winners -- 43% (72 of 167)
• Match losers -- 20% (19 of 96)
• Both -- 35% (91 of 263)
Average number of balls made on the break:
• Match winners -- 1.3
• Match losers -- 1.2
• Both -- 1.3
Missed shots:
• Match winners -- 86
• Match losers -- 81
• Both -- 167 (avg. 1 for every 2.0 games)
Breaking fouls:
• Match winners -- 10 (5% of 216 breaks)
• Match losers -- 7 (6% of 126 breaks)
• Both -- 17 (5% of 342 breaks, or 1 for every 20.1 games)
Other fouls:
• Match winners -- 33
• Match losers -- 42
• Both -- 75 (avg. 1 for every 4.6 games)
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