Super Touchy Subject Men vs.Women in Pool

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Fargo Ratings have 100 point difference between the top Male and Top female pros.
(Meaning the top males play twice as good as the top females).
I figure this is because in my rough estimation there is about 100 serious pool players that are men to about every 1 serious players that are women.
So if the numbers in general were equal and we saw 100 female players to every 100 male players, it's seems that gender wouldn't make a difference.
Because it's not a physical sport, the 100 point difference only makes sense to me by shear numbers.
Whaddya think?
 

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Personally I think it’s the talent pool . In other words you separate schools in sports based on size because you assume the bigger schools will have more talent because of kids to choose from . Maybe it’s the same thing with women in pool? Just a lot less women trying to be pro’s and playing in general. That seems to increasing all the time so maybe at some point they will catch up. I’m not sure what else it could be. with today‘s equipment you can have a great break without smashing it as hard as you can so I’m not sure what is holding it back.
 
Last time this subject came up I asked my wife what she thought from a woman's perspective. She had a theory as far as pro's that the women only are playing 9 ball while the men are playing 9 ball, 10 ball, 8 ball, banks, 1 pocket and it makes them more rounded players.
 
There should be a pro tournament that features the top sixteen men and top sixteen women. Now that would be interesting. Pair a man vs. a woman in all the first round matches. Let's see how far a woman gets in that format. I'd bet on one reaching the final eight players.
 
The women should get paid double if they win.

The men should get paid half if they win.

The handicap would reflect the differences in their annual prize payouts.

Men won't have to "work" as hard to win. If a woman wins then she is twice as good as all the men and deserves such pay.

A battle of sexes is social and culturally significant.

On a side note: Any women that have competed and trained in NYC are usually Tier 1 players. They know what the men can and can't do.
 
I think women are smarter, they seem to wait till the $'s are there.
Jean Balukus, I'm sure there are a few ''women'' on this planet of equal talent.
I like Jays comment/on men/vs/women.
It's likely the biggest hidden score card pool has.... long term over ANY other sport.
Where.... men/women compete on an equal platform.
Both sides know they're the best.

Taylor Swift will be T.S. till she isn't.

Kelce, he's still not totally there, she's got more money. :)
 
Island Drive said:
I think women are smarter, they seem to wait till the $'s are there.
Jean Balukus, I'm sure there are a few ''women'' on this planet of equal talent.
I like Jays comment/on men/vs/women.
It's likely the biggest hidden score card pool has.... long term over ANY other sport.
Where.... men/women compete on an equal platform.
Both sides know they're the best.

Taylor Swift will be T.S. till she isn't.

Kelce, he's still not totally there, she's got more money. :)
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What exactly are you trying to say here? Is there a point being made?
 
jay helfert said:
There should be a pro tournament that features the top sixteen men and top sixteen women. Now that would be interesting. Pair a man vs. a woman in all the first round matches. Let's see how far a woman gets in that format. I'd bet on one reaching the final eight players.
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One reaching the final 8 is not saying much, but I agree it’s possible, maybe even 2. The problem is that of the top 16 women playing, only 3 of them play strong enough to even have that chance. The rest would be dead money whereas almost all 16 of the men would have a realistic chance to win the entire tournament.
 
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There was a thread recently that had some good answers in there on the differences between men and women. It is just a few months old so I doubt contributor's answers would change. U coulda just searched 'men vs women' before posting, but here you go....

Men vs Women

It’s amazing that this used to be a topic every other month 10, 15, and 20 years ago. Now with the recent walkout of a player due to having to play a transgender woman, can we revisit the age-old debate? If there is “no physical reason that a...
forums.azbilliards.com
 
garczar said:
What exactly are you trying to say here? Is there a point being made?
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It's likely the biggest hidden score card pool has.... long term over ANY other sport.
Where.... men/women CAN.... compete on an equal platform.
 
I could be wrong, but in some ways, I feel it's the killer instinct that men have in sports. While men may be friends with who they are competing against they will also want to totally dominate them for the win.
You will virtually never see this with women pool players. In local team leagues that we play in with a lot of women players, in between their games the women will be more interested in walking around to chitchat with their women friends. Women just appear to be more social, and that is just the way it is. I even notice this when watching the WPBA when it comes to town near me. They are all so close and of course they want to win, but not to the intensity that the men players seem to.
 
ChrisinNC said:
One reaching the final 8 is not saying much, but I agree it’s possible, maybe even 2. The problem is that of the top 16 women playing, only 3 of them play strong enough to even have that chance. The rest would be dead money whereas almost all 16 of the men would have a realistic chance to win the entire tournament.
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I think that's a good point and true in many women's sports, i.e. the depth is not as great as in men's. Using college basketball as an example, there is much more parity in the men's NCAA tournament. In the women's, you could pick three or four teams and have about even money odds if pooling all of them.
 
I mentioned this in the other thread. There are significant differences between the eyesight of men and women. Women render colors more vibrantly and men see detail and motion better.

It is why dudes call everything from Cabernet to the stop sign "red" and women have thirty different colors for that spectrum. They literally render the colors differently than us. The tradeoff, we can see the edges of object balls better and are more likely to see creatures lurking in the grass around us.

www.genengnews.com

Why Men and Women See Things Differently

A possible explanation for the disparities goes back centuries to when men generally served as hunter-gatherers and women as nurturers and child bearers.
www.genengnews.com www.genengnews.com
 
Island Drive said:
I think women are smarter, they seem to wait till the $'s are there.
Jean Balukus, I'm sure there are a few ''women'' on this planet of equal talent.
I like Jays comment/on men/vs/women.
It's likely the biggest hidden score card pool has.... long term over ANY other sport.
Where.... men/women compete on an equal platform.
Both sides know they're the best.

Taylor Swift will be T.S. till she isn't.

Kelce, he's still not totally there, she's got more money. :)
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Jean Balukus didn't have the big break to hang with the top men, but she still competed pretty well.

Here's an old excerpt from 1987:
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justnum said:
The women should get paid double if they win.

The men should get paid half if they win.

The handicap would reflect the differences in their annual prize payouts.

Men won't have to "work" as hard to win. If a woman wins then she is twice as good as all the men and deserves such pay.

A battle of sexes is social and culturally significant.

On a side note: Any women that have competed and trained in NYC are usually Tier 1 players. They know what the men can and can't do.
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I officially have to block you. Your posts are so terrible and most the time irrelevant they border on making no sense. Lol
 
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Island Drive said:
It's likely the biggest hidden score card pool has.... long term over ANY other sport.
Where.... men/women CAN.... compete on an equal platform.
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Deleted to say I misread your post.. lol I thought you were pushing the liberal non sense that women can compete with men in all sports and that just isn’t true. But you weren’t saying that. Pool is the exception I feel. I think they can and will.
 
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