Top 5 pool players ever

[rexus31]

Judging women by how they compete against women is problematic for you?
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You want men competing against women huh?

No. She is a great player but doesn't even sniff a Top 5 overall player list unless it is exclusive to women. You yourself said, "Just want to give female athletes a nod," If that's not a DEI statement, I don't know what is.

 

[9ballglue]

No. She is a great player but doesn't even sniff a Top 5 overall player list unless it is exclusive to women. You yourself said, "Just want to give female athletes a nod," If that's not a DEI statement, I don't know what is.

I think female athletes deserve recognition as well.

 

[justnum]

Top rule critic: Corey Deuel

Top Womens Group to stand United:
A number of Iranian female billiard players have been banned for a year from competitions for allegedly “violating the Islamic code of conduct” while competing in China, Iran’s Bowling and Billiards Federation announced on March 30, 2017

Top Mens group to stand united:
MR players

Organization by players is evident in snooker, pool and carom. Heyball is not part of a organizational dispute.

 

[rexus31]

I think female athletes deserve recognition as well.

 

[8intheside]

Top 9 ball? Earl Strickland
Top 10 ball? SVB
Top 8 ball? Mike Sigel
Top one pocket? Efren Reyes
Top straight pool? Willie Mosconi
Top bank pool? Eddie Taylor
Top 3 cushion? Willie Hoppe
Top snooker? Ronnie O’Sullivan
Exhibition straight pool high runs? Jayson Shaw
All around Nick Varner

Imo Efren is the best 8 ball player of all time.

 

[9ballglue]

I am a fruitcake

I just realized that you didn't even post your top 5. Add something or move along. Ty

 

[8intheside]

1. Efren
2. Mike Siegel
3. Nick Varner
4. Shane
5. willie mosconi

 

[rexus31]

Clever (not really). Notice how I didn't resort to name calling? Have you contributed anything in your 47 posts or all they all pointless like this one?

 

[9ballglue]

1. Efren
2. Mike Siegel
3. Nick Varner
4. Shane
5. willie mosconi

Captian Hook had ice in his veins in his prime

 

[rexus31]

1. Eddie Felson
2. Fats
3. Vincent Lauria
4. Grady Seasons
5. Amos

 

[pt109]

Just want to give female athletes a nod. She has really had a dominant streak among females.

You aren’t really giving much credit by coddling them. Before Covid hit Siming Chen, at 979, was ready to become the first woman 800 FargoRate ever.

 

[book collector]

.I can't believe half of you didn't say Don Willis.

 

[9ballglue]

You aren’t really giving much credit by coddling them. Before Covid hit Siming Chen, at 979, was ready to become the first woman 800 FargoRate ever.

How do you think women should be judged by how they would compete against men? That's crazy.
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Women compete against women and are judged based on how they dominate their fields

 

[Sealegs50]

1. Eddie Felson
2. Fats
3. Vincent Lauria
4. Grady Seasons
5. Amos

What? No love for Jesse Cardiff?

 

[jason]

1. Eddie Felson
2. Fats
3. Vincent Lauria
4. Grady Seasons
5. Amos

Sorry, but you have Amos too low on your list, you have to remember he was a hustler and didn't show top speed. If you want to argue against this, go right ahead, but I'm sticking to my guns!

 

[maha]

it is impossible to make small lists of the best ever from different time periods in history. as the list always favors the current period.
and rightly so as few or none have been in that far past or remember who did what.

make best lists of each decade or say 25 or 50 year stretches.

we cant compare past and present just recognize those of the past for what they did.

 

[jason]

Only one list mentions Jayson Shaw and nobody list Filler? Another bogus GOAT debate.

 

[MattPoland]

I hate the “of all time” concept. Because it’s obvious that there have been advancements in the sport. Putting new players on old equipment. Putting old players on new equipment. Knowledge about jumping, kicking, racking, breaking, etc. Are we saying literally the best with a cue no matter what? That favors modern players. The best results against their peers? Or who built up the biggest reputations and legacy? Just tournaments or action too? Should we have a bias for verifiable results and video footage?

But for me as a person in my own little bubble of context. I like…

1. SVB (Rang every bell, dominated over generations, raised the bar)
2. Reyes (All around dominance, raised the bar, greatest hype)
3. Mosconi (Pool’s Babe Ruth)
4. Strickland (The SVB before SVB)
5. Sigel (The SVB before Earl)

I struggle with 4 & 5 because I think I have a recency bias. But so little footage and documentation exists prior. I really wanted to put Greenleaf in. I don’t buy into Worst at all. I wish I could say more about Parica or Varner. And honestly winning 5 US Opens means more when that was the only “world championship” level event in a year when now we clearly have 5+ events worthy of that strength of field. He’s not earned it yet but Filler damn near demands being on the list.

 

[MattPoland]

Only one list mentions Jayson Shaw and nobody list Filler? Another bogus GOAT debate.

Jayson is funny. His Mosconi Cup appearances are absolutely epic and resonate in the public consciousness at a primal level. And yet I look at his resume of titles and honestly would say he hasn’t accomplished enough to justify a BCA Hall of Fame induction let alone entered GOAT conversations by any stretch.

 

[iusedtoberich]

Impossible to compare eras. Best every decade is about it. And best per decade should be on the dominant discipline only, not any fringe games. That means in 1960 it would have been straight pool. In 1990 9 ball. In 2010 10 ball. In 2020 9 ball again.