What % of players can run 100+ in straight pool
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At least once a month.
How much pool could a pool player play if a pool player could play pool!
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I think if you counted only those players who actually *play* 14.1 ( ones who regularly practice it ), the figure would be somewhere around 5%? I base that on the fact that the only people who *DO* play it regularly are pretty serious about the game. As such, it means they are *most likely* fairly good players to begin with. I would guess the average high runs for that group would be @ 40 to 45.
Of course it's all speculation on my part.
Of course it's all speculation on my part.
I would consider 5% as a high estimate even for regular amateur 14.1 players. If you considered all 14.1 players currently participating in all 14.1 leagues around the country, I'd guess certainly no more than 1 in 50 has ever even run 100 balls as their lifetime high run, and far less than that having done it with regularity. Obviously we'll never know the answer to this question, but a more appropriate and likely more realistic guesstimates on this question should be referred to the 14.1 forum, as that forum is made up of players who predominantly play 14.1.
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I know a few Shaun Wilki , Mike Davis , Andy Lincoln Alan Duty Rick Mollinaro , and Ryan McCressh who ran over 200 , I'd say the list of top pro's capable of a 100 is well over 50% given enough time to practice
My bad I see it was with regularity, that would be less than 5% I'd think
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My bad I see it was with regularity, that would be less than 5% I'd think
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5 or 10 % is nuts. We’re probably talking less than a tenth of 1%. That would be my guess.
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No question with that statement - top pros given enough time to practice - well over 50% could run 100.
If you really want to know how many:
Go to the 14.1 ghost challenge thread...
The % is there....and its REALLY, REALLY, REALLY low....
Go to the 14.1 ghost challenge thread...
The % is there....and its REALLY, REALLY, REALLY low....
Chris - I had no idea there *were* any 14.1 leagues. I don't keep up with that stuff as I'm not a fan of leagues, period, but I've never heard a 14.1 even mentioned, ever... So my estimate of 5% is based as I said earlier, on only those players ( obviously non-league ) who regularly practice / play 14.1 ( which is an extrermely small number, %-wise, of all people who play pool in total ). I think 5% is probably pretty fair. But, again, simply my opinion.
TOP pros?
Lol.....100% of the top pros can run a 100 with just a little practice.
Now, the AVERAGE ranked pro? Yeah 50% range.
hahahahahaha, there are certainly a lot more of them on here, than I remember in the pool rooms too.
Then you have the group that received a government check each month or inherited a stack of money, or mom and dad gave them 50 a week to keep out of the house, who were always at the pool room ,playing dollar nine ball and pretending to be making their living playing pool.
It may have been a posssibility during the 60s and maybe even the 70s ,if you went to a free community college, but after that, I think it's an illusion.{Or delusion}.
I've shot in the 60s hundreds of times. I've even shot in the 50s a few times.
But if it gets any colder than that, I won't play
In the past Pool & Billiard magazine published a summary of the annual survey by the SGMA (Sporting Goods Manuf. Assoc., later National Sporting Goods Association?) of participation in the US in 37 sport/leisure activities. I recall that the playing at least once per year number was something like 10% of the US population. The most recent info I could find (without searching through P&B or paying $325 for a copy of the survey results), is that participation is now about 7%. That would be about 25 million in the US. A separate study shows that monthly or more often participants are about 60% of the total number. That would put core pool players in the US at about 15 million in 2018.
(If you need a more accurate, official number I guess you will have to get the report from the NSGA.)
(Edit: A brief search through back issues of P&B shows that they stopped covering the SGMA/NSGA report about 2003.)
The OP's requirement was "regularly":
But if your 150 number is correct, that would put the percentage of "core" pool players in the US who are 100 ball runners at 0.001%
0.001% can be a much bigger number than thought if the onlooker steps into reality:thumbup:
out of the tens of thousands players in the memphis metroplex i can think of two that have run over 100 balls, one of them did it once to the tune of 108 and i'm sure the other has done it multiple times
there are probably 3 to 5 more players that would run over a hundred within 6 months if they applied themselves to achieving that goal
there are probably 3 to 5 more players that would run over a hundred within 6 months if they applied themselves to achieving that goal