Here are a few stats from the Alex Pagulayan vs. Francisco Bustamante 15-Ball Filipino Rotation race to 15 played May 1, 2020 at Ray Hansen's home in Texas. Pay-per-view live streaming was provided by PoolActionTV.
This was Day 1 of a best-3-out-of-5 Champions Challenge All-Around match, with a different discipline played each day for up to 5 days. Bustamante won the right to choose the discipline and the opening break for Day 1 and chose Rotation. Remote commentary (by phone) was provided by Larry Schwartz. Ray Hansen also commentated, from a room in his home separate from the pool room.
Bustamante jumped out to a 6-1 lead. Pagulayan brought it back to a tie at 12-12, but Bustamante then won the last 3 games, including breaking and running the final 2, for a 15-12 win.
Conditions -- The conditions for this set included:
■ Bustamante broke 15 times -- successful 10 times (resulting in 4 game wins and 6 losses), no fouls, and 5 dry (4 wins, 1 loss).
■ Pagulayan broke 12 times -- successful 7 times (resulting in 5 game wins and 2 losses), 2 fouls (both losses), and 3 dry (all losses).
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):
Break-and-run packages:
Games with 1 or more safeties -- 59% (16 of 27)
Average number of balls made on the break:
Number of innings -- 26% (7 of 27) of the games ended in one inning. 4 games ended on the breaker's first inning (B&R games), 3 games ended on the non-breaker's first inning, 5 games ended on the breaker's second inning, and 1 game ended on the non-breaker's second inning. 52% (14 of 27) of the games went beyond the non-breaker's second visit to the table, with the longest game ending on the non-breaker's 12th visit.
Match length -- Just over 4 hours, for an average of 8.9 minutes per game. This includes racking and timeouts.
This was Day 1 of a best-3-out-of-5 Champions Challenge All-Around match, with a different discipline played each day for up to 5 days. Bustamante won the right to choose the discipline and the opening break for Day 1 and chose Rotation. Remote commentary (by phone) was provided by Larry Schwartz. Ray Hansen also commentated, from a room in his home separate from the pool room.
Bustamante jumped out to a 6-1 lead. Pagulayan brought it back to a tie at 12-12, but Bustamante then won the last 3 games, including breaking and running the final 2, for a 15-12 win.
Conditions -- The conditions for this set included:
- - Diamond 9-foot table with standard pro-cut pockets and blue Simonis 860 HR cloth;
- Aramith Tournament balls with a measles cue ball;
- triangle rack;
- winner breaks;
- rack your own with the 1-, 2- and 3-balls on the corners;
- first player to reach 60 points (not 61, to avoid the possibility of tied games) wins the game;
- on a foul, the opponent can play the balls as they lie, spot the lowest-numbered ball and take ball in hand behind the head string, or pass the shot back;
- a shot is legal as long as the lowest-numbered ball is the first one hit by the cue ball and a rail is hit either by the cue ball before the object ball is hit or by any ball after the object ball is hit;
- jump cues not allowed; and
- no shot clock.
■ Bustamante broke 15 times -- successful 10 times (resulting in 4 game wins and 6 losses), no fouls, and 5 dry (4 wins, 1 loss).
■ Pagulayan broke 12 times -- successful 7 times (resulting in 5 game wins and 2 losses), 2 fouls (both losses), and 3 dry (all losses).
Successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul):
- Bustamante -- 10 of 15 (67%)
- Pagulayan -- 7 of 12 (58%)
- Total -- 17 of 27 (63%)
Breaker won game:
- Bustamante -- 8 of 15 (53%)
- Pagulayan -- 5 of 12 (42%)
- Total -- 13 of 27 (48%)
Break-and-run games -- on all breaks:
- Bustamante -- 2 of 15 (13%)
- Pagulayan -- 2 of 12 (17%)
- Total -- 4 of 27 (15%)
Break-and-run games -- on successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul):
- Bustamante -- 2 of 10 (20%)
- Pagulayan -- 2 of 7 (29%)
- Total -- 4 of 17 (24%)
Break-and-run packages:
- Bustamante's 2 B&R games were a 2-pack to end the set.
Pagulayan's 2 B&R games were singles.
Games with 1 or more safeties -- 59% (16 of 27)
Average number of balls made on the break:
- Bustamante -- 0.8 on all breaks, 1.2 on successful breaks
- Pagulayan -- 1.0 on all breaks, 1.6 on successful breaks
- Total -- 0.9 on all breaks, 1.4 on successful breaks
Number of innings -- 26% (7 of 27) of the games ended in one inning. 4 games ended on the breaker's first inning (B&R games), 3 games ended on the non-breaker's first inning, 5 games ended on the breaker's second inning, and 1 game ended on the non-breaker's second inning. 52% (14 of 27) of the games went beyond the non-breaker's second visit to the table, with the longest game ending on the non-breaker's 12th visit.
Match length -- Just over 4 hours, for an average of 8.9 minutes per game. This includes racking and timeouts.
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