Here are some statistics from the 2019 Derby City Classic's One-Pocket Tournament, played January 27 - February 1 at the Horseshoe Southern Indiana in Elizabeth, Indiana with pay-per-view streaming by Accu-Stats.
This event had 410 players, and operated under the standard DCC format of redrawing match pairings for every round, with one buy-back permitted for each player. All races were to 3. Francisco Bustamante won the event.
Conditions -- The conditions for this event included:
The 18 streamed matches (75 games) were as follows (shown in the order in which they were played):
Tues. Jan. 29, 2019
Wed. Jan. 30
Thurs. Jan. 31
Fri. Feb. 1
■ Breaks from breaker's right side of table -- 37 of 75 (49%)
■ Games won by breaker
■ Games won by player who scored the first point (or had it scored for him) -- 55 of 75 (73%)
■ Matches won by winner of lag -- 12 of 18 (67%)
■ High run-outs
■ Match lengths
■ Average match score -- 3 - 1.2. Three matches were shutouts and 6 went to hill/hill.
■ Ball counts by length of run -- The total ball counts resulted from the following runs and fouls.
[Note: excludes information for 2 games -- Games 1 and 4 of Match 3, because my stream mysteriously omitted parts of those games.]
■ Distribution of run-outs to win the games:
This event had 410 players, and operated under the standard DCC format of redrawing match pairings for every round, with one buy-back permitted for each player. All races were to 3. Francisco Bustamante won the event.
Conditions -- The conditions for this event included:
- Diamond 9-foot table with pro-cut pockets and blue Simonis 860 cloth;
- Cyclop Hyperion balls with the red-spots-and-diamonds cue ball;
- triangle rack;
- rack your own with alternating breaks;
- a ball made on the break requires a re-break;
- 60-second shot clock with one automatic 60-second extension per player per rack;
- cue ball fouls only;
- 3 fouls in a row is loss of game (did not happen); and
- lag for opening break.
The 18 streamed matches (75 games) were as follows (shown in the order in which they were played):
Tues. Jan. 29, 2019
1. Robb Saez defeated Chris Gentile 3-2
2. Justin Hall d. Clennis Nichols 3-0
3. Scott Frost d. Dennis Orcollo 3-1
4. Alex Pagulayan d. Shannon Daulton 3-2
Wed. Jan. 30
5. John Schmidt d. James Aranas 3-2
6. Shane Van Boening d. Lee Vann Corteza 3-1
7. Yerry Calderon d. Rob Hart 3-1
8. Francisco Bustamante d. Joshua Filler 3-1
9. Roberto Gomez d. Jeremy Jones 3-1
Thurs. Jan. 31
10. Danny Smith d. Schmidt 3-1
11. Skyler Woodward d. Jones 3-0
12. Bustamante d. Justin Bergman 3-1
13. Pagulayan d. Anthony Meglino 3-2
14. Fedor Gorst d. Gomez 3-2
Fri. Feb. 1
15. Corey Deuel d. Van Boening 3-1
16. Bustamante d. Orcollo 3-1
17. Bustamante d. Pagulayan 3-0 (Semifinal)
18. Bustamante d. Corey Deuel 3-2 (Final)
■ Breaks from breaker's right side of table -- 37 of 75 (49%)
■ Games won by breaker
When breaking from his left side of table -- 20 of 38 (53%)
When breaking from his right side of table -- 24 of 37 (65%)
Total -- 44 of 75 (59%)
Total -- 44 of 75 (59%)
■ Games won by player who scored the first point (or had it scored for him) -- 55 of 75 (73%)
■ Matches won by winner of lag -- 12 of 18 (67%)
■ High run-outs
11-and-out -- 1 time, by Bustamante (Match 8)
10-and-out -- 1 time, by Bustamante (Match 16)
9-and-outs -- 5 times: once each by Hall (Match 2), Daulton (Match 4), Gomez (Match 9), Gorst (Match 14), and Bustamante (Match 17)
8-and-outs -- 18 times: 5 by Bustamante (Matches 12, 16, 17, and 18 twice), 2 by Pagulayan (Matches 4 and 13), 2 by Deuel (Matches 15 and 18), and 1 each by Orcollo (Match 3), Aranas (Match 5), Schmidt (Match 5), Van Boening (Match 6), Gomez (Match 9), Jones (Match 9), Smith (Match 10), Woodward (Match 11), and Gorst (Match 14).
■ Match lengths
Longest in total length (117 min.) -- Gomez d. Jones 3-1
Highest in average minutes per game (29 min.) -- Gomez d. Jones 3-1
Shortest in total length (42 min.) -- Bustamante d. Pagulayan 3-0
Lowest in average minutes per game (11 min.) -- Smith d. Schmidt 3-1
Average match length -- 81 min.
Average minutes per game -- 19½ min.
■ Average match score -- 3 - 1.2. Three matches were shutouts and 6 went to hill/hill.
■ Ball counts by length of run -- The total ball counts resulted from the following runs and fouls.
[Note: excludes information for 2 games -- Games 1 and 4 of Match 3, because my stream mysteriously omitted parts of those games.]
1 ball -- 103 times
2 balls -- 43
3 balls -- 24
4 balls -- 24
5 balls -- 13
6 balls -- 9
7 balls -- 12
8 balls -- 19
9 balls -- 5
10 balls -- 1
11 balls --1
Plus balls pocketed by opponents -- 44
Minus fouls -- 94
TOTAL ball count (73 games) -- 728
Average game score (these 73 games) -- 8 - 2.0
■ Distribution of run-outs to win the games:
1 ball -- 20 (27% of 75 games)
2 balls -- 9
3 balls -- 6
4 balls -- 5
5 balls -- 3
6 balls -- 1
7 balls -- 6
8+ balls -- 25 (33%)
Average (mean) "out" run -- 4.7 balls
Average (median) "out" run -- 4 balls
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