Billiards
Zhao Xintong and the Belfast Shock: Reading the World Number One Through Data
Vinnie Calabrese and Four Australian Open Titles: Revaluing an Amateur Dynasty
Reading the Professional Billiards Ledger After the Landmark 2026 Sanctions
The 2026 Billiards Map: Five Non-Convertible Ecosystems, and Vietnam's Three-Cushion Position
Heartbreak in the Deciders: Crowley and Brown and the Lesson of Frame-Closing Ability at the International Championship Qualifiers
Nguyen Duc Yen Sinh and the 40-inning quarterfinal: 30-20 over Heo Chae Won, Vietnam's first women's carom medal
Kyren Wilson Wins 2026 Northern Ireland Open: A Victory of Composure and Efficient Attacking SnookerKyren Wilson closed out his run at the 2026 Northern Ireland Open with a...
Donaldson beats Brown in Belfast: a sixth frame measured by the tightness of the pocketsWaterfront Hall, Belfast, the sixth frame. Scott Donaldson led 3-2 and needed...
Vietnamese Billiards Is Missing the First Question: Snooker, Pool or Carom?At one in the morning I reopened a folder holding 312 Vietnamese-language...
Mark Allen Returns to Belfast After 10 Weeks of Treatment: The Long Pot Is the Last Thing to Come BackBelfast, an October evening. Mark Allen sets the cloth down on the cushion,...
Zhao Xintong and the Belfast Shock: Reading the World Number One Through DataZhao Xintong and the Belfast Shock: Reading the World Number One Through Data...
Vinnie Calabrese and Four Australian Open Titles: Revaluing an Amateur DynastyThe Bob Hawke AC Memorial Australian Open Snooker Championship has just...
Reading the Professional Billiards Ledger After the Landmark 2026 SanctionsIn June 2026, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA...
The Silence Above the Table: Vietnamese Billiards and the Journey to Read ItselfOne in the morning in Nha Trang. In a pool hall tucked deep in a small alley...
Vietnamese Billiards Lacks a Data Foundation: The Lesson of an Empty AnalysisAn empty spreadsheet is not neutrality. It is a warning. Earlier this week, I...
Bali Open: Joshua Filler Wins, Mi Le's Missed 8-Ball and the Limits of a Short FormatThat shot unfolded in the kind of silence I am used to sitting inside, counti...
The 2026 Billiards Map: Five Non-Convertible Ecosystems, and Vietnam's Three-Cushion PositionThe final of the UMB World Three-Cushion Championship in Ankara, Turkey, in...
WPBSA and 45 Referees: When Invisible Infrastructure Decides Snooker's CapacityI remember a winter night in Liverpool, at a small amateur tournament tucked...
Shaun Murphy Reclaims High Ground at 2026 Shenzhen OpenThe moment Shaun Murphy sank the final black ball in the fifth frame to defea...
Murphy, 5-1, and the Shenzhen Table Equation: When Standard Data Only Solves Half the ProblemHook: A Match Broken Before the Audience Could Sit Down I watched the opening...
Aaron Busuttil and the Q Tour Upset: Malta's First Winner, and Three Numbers That Don't LieEmpty arena, money still flows, and a professional card hangs in the air acro...
Robert Milkins and the admission "I disrespected the game": The data trail of a 50-year-old leaving the main tourIn an interview broadcast on Pluto TV at the Snooker 900 event, Robert Milkin...
Donaldson beats Brown in Belfast: a sixth frame measured by the tightness of the pocketsWaterfront Hall, Belfast, the sixth frame. Scott Donaldson led 3-2 and needed...
Vietnamese Billiards Is Missing the First Question: Snooker, Pool or Carom?At one in the morning I reopened a folder holding 312 Vietnamese-language...
Mark Allen Returns to Belfast After 10 Weeks of Treatment: The Long Pot Is the Last Thing to Come BackBelfast, an October evening. Mark Allen sets the cloth down on the cushion,...
Zhao Xintong and the Belfast Shock: Reading the World Number One Through DataZhao Xintong and the Belfast Shock: Reading the World Number One Through Data...
Vinnie Calabrese and Four Australian Open Titles: Revaluing an Amateur DynastyThe Bob Hawke AC Memorial Australian Open Snooker Championship has just...
Reading the Professional Billiards Ledger After the Landmark 2026 SanctionsIn June 2026, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA...
The Silence Above the Table: Vietnamese Billiards and the Journey to Read ItselfOne in the morning in Nha Trang. In a pool hall tucked deep in a small alley...
Vietnamese Billiards Lacks a Data Foundation: The Lesson of an Empty AnalysisAn empty spreadsheet is not neutrality. It is a warning. Earlier this week, I...
Bali Open: Joshua Filler Wins, Mi Le's Missed 8-Ball and the Limits of a Short FormatThat shot unfolded in the kind of silence I am used to sitting inside, counti...
The 2026 Billiards Map: Five Non-Convertible Ecosystems, and Vietnam's Three-Cushion PositionThe final of the UMB World Three-Cushion Championship in Ankara, Turkey, in...
WPBSA and 45 Referees: When Invisible Infrastructure Decides Snooker's CapacityI remember a winter night in Liverpool, at a small amateur tournament tucked...
Shaun Murphy Reclaims High Ground at 2026 Shenzhen OpenThe moment Shaun Murphy sank the final black ball in the fifth frame to defea...
Murphy, 5-1, and the Shenzhen Table Equation: When Standard Data Only Solves Half the ProblemHook: A Match Broken Before the Audience Could Sit Down I watched the opening...
Aaron Busuttil and the Q Tour Upset: Malta's First Winner, and Three Numbers That Don't LieEmpty arena, money still flows, and a professional card hangs in the air acro...
Robert Milkins and the admission "I disrespected the game": The data trail of a 50-year-old leaving the main tourIn an interview broadcast on Pluto TV at the Snooker 900 event, Robert Milkin...
