Here are some statistics from the Alex Pagulayan vs. Tony Chohan Champions Challenge One-Pocket match played at Buffalo's Billiards in Jefferson, LA on November 15-17, 2018. Pay-per-view live streaming was provided by PoolActionTV.
This was a best of 5 races to 10 games, with one race to 10 scheduled for each day. Pagulayan won the first 3 races in a row to win the match.
Conditions -- The conditions for the streamed matches included:
- Diamond 9-foot table with blue Simonis cloth;
- Aramith balls with a measles cue ball;
- triangle rack;
- rack your own with alternating breaks;
- re-break if a ball is made on the break;
- cue ball fouls only (unless multiple balls are moved);
- 3 fouls in a row is loss of game (did not happen);
- no shot clock; and
- flip for opening break each day (Pagulayan won all 3 flips).
■ Match results -- Pagulayan won the 3 sets 10-9, 10-4, and 10-7 (30 games to 20 in total).
■ Games won by breaker
■ Breaks by side of table
■ Games won when scoring the first point (or having it scored for him)
[Note: Excludes 3 games on Day 2 because of streaming problems.]
■ Average minutes per game -- Day 1: 23.8 min.; Day 2: 21.4 min.; Day 3: 18.5 min; Total: 21.3 min.
[Note: Play on Day 3 was stopped for about 20 minutes while Pagulayan sought relief from breathing difficulties caused by room smoke. Excluding those 20 min., the Day 3 average was 17.3 min./game and the overall average was 20.9 min./game.]
■ Ball counts by length of run -- The total ball counts resulted from the following runs and fouls.
[Note: Excludes 3 games on Day 2 because of streaming problems.]
■ Distribution of run-outs to win the games:
[Note: Excludes 1 game on Day 2 because of streaming problems.]
This was a best of 5 races to 10 games, with one race to 10 scheduled for each day. Pagulayan won the first 3 races in a row to win the match.
Conditions -- The conditions for the streamed matches included:
- Diamond 9-foot table with blue Simonis cloth;
- Aramith balls with a measles cue ball;
- triangle rack;
- rack your own with alternating breaks;
- re-break if a ball is made on the break;
- cue ball fouls only (unless multiple balls are moved);
- 3 fouls in a row is loss of game (did not happen);
- no shot clock; and
- flip for opening break each day (Pagulayan won all 3 flips).
■ Match results -- Pagulayan won the 3 sets 10-9, 10-4, and 10-7 (30 games to 20 in total).
■ Games won by breaker
- Pagulayan -- 20 of 26 (77%)
- Chohan -- 14 of 24 (58%)
Total -- 34 of 50 (68%)
■ Breaks by side of table
- Pagulayan -- Won 15 of 20 games (75%) breaking from his left side and 5 of 6 (83%) breaking from his right side.
- Chohan -- All 24 breaks were from his left side, with 14 wins (58%).
■ Games won when scoring the first point (or having it scored for him)
[Note: Excludes 3 games on Day 2 because of streaming problems.]
- Pagulayan -- 16 of 21 (76%)
- Chohan -- 14 of 26 (54%)
Total -- 30 of 47 (64%)
■ Average minutes per game -- Day 1: 23.8 min.; Day 2: 21.4 min.; Day 3: 18.5 min; Total: 21.3 min.
[Note: Play on Day 3 was stopped for about 20 minutes while Pagulayan sought relief from breathing difficulties caused by room smoke. Excluding those 20 min., the Day 3 average was 17.3 min./game and the overall average was 20.9 min./game.]
■ Ball counts by length of run -- The total ball counts resulted from the following runs and fouls.
[Note: Excludes 3 games on Day 2 because of streaming problems.]
- Pagulayan
- 1 ball -- 40 times
- 2 balls --18
- 3 balls -- 10
- 4 balls -- 6
- 5 balls -- 3
- 6 balls -- 8
- 7 balls -- 2
- 8 balls -- 7
- 9 balls -- 2
- Plus balls pocketed by Chohan -- 22
- Minus fouls -- 34
- TOTAL Ball Count -- 269
Chohan- 1 ball -- 42 times
- 2 balls -- 21
- 3 balls -- 13
- 4 balls -- 7
- 5 balls -- 3
- 6 balls -- 0
- 7 balls -- 2
- 8 balls -- 1
- 9 balls -- 2
- Plus balls pocketed by Pagulayan -- 20
- Minus fouls -- 24
- TOTAL Ball Count -- 202
Total for the 2 players- 1 ball -- 82 times
- 2 balls -- 39
- 3 balls -- 23
- 4 balls -- 13
- 5 balls -- 6
- 6 balls -- 8
- 7 balls -- 4
- 8 balls -- 8
- 9 balls -- 4
- Plus balls pocketed by opponents -- 42
- Minus fouls -- 58
- TOTAL Ball Count -- 471
Average game score (these 47 games) -- 8 - 2.0
■ Distribution of run-outs to win the games:
[Note: Excludes 1 game on Day 2 because of streaming problems.]
- 1 ball -- 13 (27% of 49 games)
- 2 balls -- 10
- 3 balls -- 3
- 4 balls -- 4
- 5 balls -- 2
- 6 balls -- 4 (all by Pagulayan)
- 7 balls -- 1 (by Pagulayan)
- 8 balls -- 8 (7 by Pagulayan, 1 by Chohan)
- 9 balls -- 4 (2 by Pagulayan, 2 by Chohan)
- Average (mean) "out" run -- 4.1 balls
- Average (median) "out" run -- 3 balls
