Here are some aggregate stats from Matchroom's Premier League Pool 9-Ball event played March 20-27 at the Hotel Hills Sarajevo in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Pay-per-view streaming was provided on wnttv.com. Moritz Neuhausen won the event, defeating Francisco Sanchez-Ruiz in the final match.
Format -- This was a 16-player, 8-day event.
Two tables were used for the event. Table 1 was with commentary. The commentators, two per match, were Jeremy Jones, Karl Boyes, and Scott Frost.
The 6 players who were eliminated after Stage 1 were Pijus Labutis, Tyler Styer, Edward Koyongian, Eklent Kaçi, AJ Manas, and Bui Truong An.
The 10 players who qualified for Stage 2 on Days 6 and 7 were, in order of their standings coming out of Stage 1: Robbie Capito, Jayson Shaw, Johann Chua, Moritz Neuhausen, Shane Van Boening, Francisco Sanchez-Ruiz, Aloysius Yapp, Kledio Kaçi, Sanjin Pehlivanovic, and Duong Quoc Hoang.
The 6 players who qualified for Day 8 with the best records through Stages 1 and 2 (Days 1-7) are shown here in their final order of finish in the event.
Conditions -- the conditions for these streamed matches included the following:
The matches each day were played in two sessions, an afternoon session (starting at about noon local time) and an evening session (starting at about 7:00 pm). These stats are from the 33 matches (52% of the event's total of 63 matches played after Stage 1) that I watched, which were all of the matches being streamed from Table 1 on Days 6, 7, and 8 (Stages 2, 3, and Playoffs). These 33 matches totaled 254 games. All 10 players in the event after Stage 1 appeared in the matches I tracked, ranging from just 1 appearance (Kledio Kaçi) to 12 appearances (Sanchez-Ruiz).
The 33 matches in the stats are listed here in the order in which they were played.
Tuesday, March 25 (Day 6 of the event, Stage 2)
Wednesday, March 26 (Day 7, Stage 2)
Thursday, March 275 (Day 8, Stage 3 and Playoffs)
Successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul):
Breaker won game:
Break-and-run games -- on all breaks:
Break-and-run games -- on successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul):
One-inning games (B&Rs plus non-breaker runouts on first visit to table)
■ Match lengths:
■ Distribution of match scores for races to 5:
■ Games with one or more safeties (est.):
■ Number of game-winning 9-balls on the break:
Format -- This was a 16-player, 8-day event.
- Stage 1 (Days 1-5) -- A 16-player round robin of 24 matches per day (120 matches in total, 15 matches per player). The 6 players with the worst records were eliminated.
- Stage 2 (Days 6-7) -- A 10-player round robin (45 matches in total, 9 matches per player). The 4 players with the worst records were eliminated.
- Stage 3 (Day 8) -- A 6-player round robin (15 matches in total, 5 matches per player). The 2 players with the worst records were eliminated.
- Playoffs (Day 8) -- The 4 players with the best records at the end of the third round robin played single elimination (2 semifinal matches and a final match) to determine the event's winner.
The players' records were cumulative through the 3 round-robin stages rather than starting over for each stage. All of the matches in the round-robin stages were races to 5; the semifinal and final matches were races to 7.Two tables were used for the event. Table 1 was with commentary. The commentators, two per match, were Jeremy Jones, Karl Boyes, and Scott Frost.
The 6 players who were eliminated after Stage 1 were Pijus Labutis, Tyler Styer, Edward Koyongian, Eklent Kaçi, AJ Manas, and Bui Truong An.
The 10 players who qualified for Stage 2 on Days 6 and 7 were, in order of their standings coming out of Stage 1: Robbie Capito, Jayson Shaw, Johann Chua, Moritz Neuhausen, Shane Van Boening, Francisco Sanchez-Ruiz, Aloysius Yapp, Kledio Kaçi, Sanjin Pehlivanovic, and Duong Quoc Hoang.
The 6 players who qualified for Day 8 with the best records through Stages 1 and 2 (Days 1-7) are shown here in their final order of finish in the event.
1. ($20,000) -- Moritz Neuhausen
2. ($12,500) -- Francisco Sanchez-Ruiz
3. ($8,000) -- Robbie Capito
4. ($8,000) -- Johann Chua
5. ($7,000) -- Aloysius Yapp
6. ($6,250) -- Jayson Shaw
Conditions -- the conditions for these streamed matches included the following:
• Rasson Mr-Sung Accura 9-foot tables with corner pockets said to be slightly under 4";
• Simonis 860 shark gray cloth;
• Aramith Tournament Black balls with a black-spots cue ball;
• Magic Ball Rack racking template;
• referee racks with the 9-ball on the foot spot and the 2-ball on one of the wings or in the back location;
• Stages 1-3: alternate breaks from behind the head string in a box approximately 8" to each side of the long string;
• Playoffs: winner breaks from same box as above;
• no illegal-break rule, but referees enforce a forceful-break requirement;
• 30-sec. shot clock (60 sec. after the break), with one 30-sec. extension per player per game;
• foul on all balls;
• 3-foul rule in effect (violation did not occur);
• jump cues allowed;
• all slop counts; and
• lag for the break in each match.
The matches each day were played in two sessions, an afternoon session (starting at about noon local time) and an evening session (starting at about 7:00 pm). These stats are from the 33 matches (52% of the event's total of 63 matches played after Stage 1) that I watched, which were all of the matches being streamed from Table 1 on Days 6, 7, and 8 (Stages 2, 3, and Playoffs). These 33 matches totaled 254 games. All 10 players in the event after Stage 1 appeared in the matches I tracked, ranging from just 1 appearance (Kledio Kaçi) to 12 appearances (Sanchez-Ruiz).
The 33 matches in the stats are listed here in the order in which they were played.
Tuesday, March 25 (Day 6 of the event, Stage 2)
1. Chua defeated Kaçi 5-2
2. Pehlivanovic d. Shaw 5-4
3. Van Boening d. Sanchez-Ruiz 5-3
4. Chua d. Neuhausen 5-1
5. Shaw d. Van Boening 5-0
6. Sanchez-Ruiz d. Duong 5-1
7. Chua d. Shaw 5-3
8. Pehlivanovic d. Van Boening 5-4
9. Sanchez-Ruiz d. Chua 5-2
10. Pehlivanovic d. Capito 5-4
11. Sanchez-Ruiz d. Shaw 5-4
12. Yapp d. Duong 5-1
Wednesday, March 26 (Day 7, Stage 2)
13. Chua d. Van Boening 5-1
14. Duong d. Pehlivanovic 5-2
15. Capito d. Van Boening 5-2
16. Chua d. Yapp 5-4
17. Sanchez-Ruiz d. Capito 5-2
18. Pehlivanovic d. Chua 5-3
19. Yapp d. Van Boening 5-4
20. Sanchez-Ruiz d. Pehlivanovic 5-4
21. Duong d. Van Boening 5-3
22. Pehlivanovic d. Neuhausen 5-4
23. Sanchez-Ruiz d. Yapp 5-1
Thursday, March 275 (Day 8, Stage 3 and Playoffs)
24. Chua d. Yapp 5-4
25. Yapp d. Shaw 5-4
26. Chua d. Shaw 5-4
27. Sanchez-Ruiz d. Neuhausen 5-1
28. Shaw d. Sanchez-Ruiz 5-2
29. Sanchez-Ruiz d. Chua 5-3
30. Neuhausen d. Yapp 5-4
31. Neuhausen d. Shaw 5-2
32. Sanchez-Ruiz d. Chua 7-2 (Semifinal)
33. Neuhausen d. Sanchez-Ruiz 7-0 (Final)
Successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul):
Day 6 -- 81% (72 of 89)
Day 7 -- 87% (74 of 85)
Day 8 -- 78% (62 of 80)
Total -- 82% (208 of 254)
Breaker won game:
Day 6 -- 56% (50 of 89)
Day 7 -- 54% (46 of 85)
Day 8 -- 63% (50 of 80)
Total -- 57% (146 of 254)
Break-and-run games -- on all breaks:
Day 6 -- 28% (25 of 89)
Day 7 -- 24% (20 of 85)
Day 8 -- 26% (21 of 80)
Total -- 26% (66 of 254)
Break-and-run games -- on successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul):
Day 6 -- 35% (25 of 72)
Day 7 -- 27% (20 of 74)
Day 8 -- 34% (21 of 62)
Total -- 32% (66 of 208)
One-inning games (B&Rs plus non-breaker runouts on first visit to table)
Day 6 -- 48% (43 of 89)
Day 7 -- 38% (32 of 85)
Day 8 -- 50% (40 of 80)
Total -- 45% (115 of 254)
■ Match lengths:
- Longest race to 5 in total length (approx. 63 min.) -- Neuhausen d. Yapp 5-4 on Day 8
- Highest in average minutes per game (8.4 min.) -- Sanchez-Ruiz d. Yapp 5-1 on Day 7
- Shortest in total length (20 min.) -- Shaw d. Sanchez-Ruiz 5-2 on Day 8
- Lowest in average minutes per game (2.9 min.) -- Shaw d. Sanchez-Ruiz 5-2 on Day 8
- Average match length for 31 races to 5 -- 40 min.
- Average minutes per game (all 33 matches) -- 5.3 min.
■ Distribution of match scores for races to 5:
5-4 -- 12 times
5-3 -- 5
5-2 -- 7
5-1 -- 6
5-0 -- 1
Total -- 31
Average match score -- 5 - 2.7
■ Games with one or more safeties (est.):
44% of all games
59% of games that were not B&R games
■ Number of game-winning 9-balls on the break:
10 (3.9% of all 254 games). In addition, one 9-ball was made on a fouled break; it was spotted.
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