Here's a fun fact for you Ken. The US has less than 5% of the population on earth but we have half the lawyers!
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Who has the highest Accu-Stats scores…
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Here's a fun fact for you Ken. The US has less than 5% of the population on earth but we have half the lawyers!
Sherm
Eric:
Not missing one shot in a race to whatever is a perfect game and 1000 rating. It is exactly that... Perfect pool
Other than 1.000,Johnny Archer has the highest recorded race to 13,with a .989,beating Nick Varner 13-1 at one of the Sands tournaments.
Johnny made 2 mistakes,a position error,and missed one ball,which was a bank I believe,it's been a couple years since I pulled out my VHS copy. Tommy D.
Johnny made 2 mistakes,a position error,and missed one ball,which was a bank I believe,it's been a couple years since I pulled out my VHS copy. Tommy D.
Great match. It was from the sands 15 from 1992.
Billy Johnson
Wade Crane AKA Billy Johnson was a monster player and, in his own way, a real comedian. He is sorely missed.
Wade Crane AKA Billy Johnson was a monster player and, in his own way, a real comedian. He is sorely missed.
This a post from Pat Fleming on BD forum back in 2003. He explains some of the same questions there that were posted here.
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Re: Who shot 1,000 for an Accustat match?
I'm Pat Fleming and I'm surprised at how accurate some of the posts are on this thread, but I'll clear up some of the confusion.
1) Only one person shot a 1.000 that was captured on video. It was Mika Immonen's match against Johnny Archer at one of the Derby City Classics. It was a race to seven.
2) Often times a player being taped in a race to eleven will shoot 1.000 past the seventh rack won. Several players shot 1.000 up to the tenth rack won.
3) Accu-Stats has scored at least three 1.000's without video verification. Wade Crane shot 1.000 in a race to seven in the finals in Atlantic City against Buddy Hall. Allen Hopkins shot 1.000 at the Sands Regency in a race to nine. Jose Parica shot a 1.000 in a race to eleven at the Commerce Casino.
4) I would guess that there may be as many as 100 matches posting a 1.000 score played at major events that were not videotaped nor scored by Accu-Stats.
5)Accu-Stats has taped several thousand matches, usually the best in the field.
6) Not often, but sometimes the player with the lower Accu-stats score wins, usually when he commits errors and doesn't pay the price by leaving his opponent hooked, for example.
I hope this clears up some of the 1.000 related questions.
Here is another post that I found interesting from a person named Popcorn;
Re: Who shot 1,000 for an Accustat match?
Pat started doing the stats as a way of handicapping and scoring 9 ball. At first it was done on a score sheet by someone watching the match. Pat would spend an hour or so training the score keepers. They scored every match of the tournament. This created a data base of I would say thousands of matches. There was problems though with the scoring, because some of scoring was subjective depending on the score keeper. The first time I scored was in 1983. I had problems right away because I did not want to score a two way shot as a miss. Pat and I talked about it and he did not want me injecting my opinions or trying to guess what the player is doing. After a while Pat started setting up cameras to tape the matches partly because it was such a hassle training the score keepers and he did not completely trust the results. The cameras were no big deal to do, he just set them up where they could see the table and later scored the match from the tape. He would actually score them in fast forward he was so good at it. The tapes were just taped over once the match was on paper so none of these tapes exist anymore. It wasn't till people began asking to buy copies of the tapes that Accu-Stats video was born. First with just one stationary camera, then several, then a camera operator, commentary and so on till it became what you see today. As far as the Wade Crane match goes, it was in the Resorts Last Call for 9 Ball in 1985. I have the August 1985 Billiard News here in front of me now. The tournament was a race to 7, 2 out of 3 sets. In the finals Wade played Hall. Wade won the first set 7 to 3 and in the second set he ran the first 5 racks, on the sixth he made a ball and played a successful safe then ran out the set. The deal with the Accu stats is there are thousands of matches recorded on paper but tapes were not kept. I remember Pat even after they were selling the tapes, complaining about the cost of all the tapes. If a match was no big deal or an unknown players he did not keep the tapes. Only so many of the tapes are really sellable anyway. I remember a local player coming over asking if he could buy the tape of his match, only to find it had been taped over. The paper scoring is still done, I did it just in the last few years on a televised match, so the guy in the booth would have a quick reference in case he missed something. I ended up doing it for 10 hours that day, and I had the best seat for the finals, they even did a close up of me scoring the match. Anyway I still have score sheets around somewhere. I will look for them and will scan one and post it. Some of you guys may find it interesting how the numbers are arrived at. So many people have scored matches over the years, I am surprised no body on the board here has mentioned having done it.
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Never saw him post here, but if you call the number on the accustats website, it goes straight to pat.
I was really surprised to hear that familiar voice when I had a question.
I bet he'd know off the top of his head who had perfect scores.
What I want to know is if accustats will ever get into the statistical stuff again?
Or are they forever just a video company now?
As of Tunica Accu-Stats now has real time statistics in place... The database is being built and at some point the TPAs for even the historical matches will be put into it so We can have actual player's stats on the fly...
As far as how far out until the database is completed there is no current answer other than it will take however long it takes but Pat is still a statistics nut so we will get there =)
The hardest part will be getting matches scored on the non-tv tables but there will soon be an app for that and it's planned to allow updates to the database once it goes online...
Will keep everyone in the loop as things progress but resources are scarce so the project will start and stop as it moves to and from the back burners...
Chris