Billiards
Billiards in the Data Drought: When an Empty Analysis Table Exposes a Hole in the Whole Industry
The Blank Score Sheet: When Billiards Analysis Begins in Silence
The Chinese Match-Fixing Case and the Data Vacuum Inside World Snooker
Mark Allen and the Vanished Season: A Twelve-Title Cueman Leaves a Gap No One Can Measure
Name the Discipline Before You Count the Shots
Mark Allen and the Vanished Season: A Twelve-Title Cueman Leaves a Gap No One Can MeasureThere is one frame I have stopped and replayed more than twenty times over th...
Name the Discipline Before You Count the ShotsFriday noon in Liverpool, July 2026, in a small sports-data office near Dale...
One Word, Six Rulebooks: Discipline Identification Is Billiards' Forgotten GateIn Liverpool, I often sit downstairs in a cue club on Renshaw Street. One...
The Vacant Zone on the Baulk Cushion: Where Modern Snooker Is Decided by Shots Nobody CountsIn the final seconds of frame nine, with only four coloured balls left on the...
The Blank Zone of Billiards Data: When Silence Is Not InnocenceOn June 6, 2026, the WPBSA — Britain's professional billiards governing body ...
Snooker Is Counting the Wrong Things: The Data Gap on the Green BaizeIn the early morning of April 29, 2026, I sat in front of a black-and-white...
Forty-Five Entries, Eight Brackets and an Empty Seat: How WDBS Is Redrawing the Map of European Disability SnookerThere is one detail in the official WPBSA announcement that I read three time...
The 2026 Snooker Power Map: The Class of '75 Leaves the Table, the Money Keeps FlowingOn the night of January 18, 2026, at Ally Pally in London, Mark Williams rack...
Billiards in the Data Drought: When an Empty Analysis Table Exposes a Hole in the Whole IndustryBilliards in the Data Drought: When an Empty Analysis Table Exposes a Hole in...
The Blank Score Sheet: When Billiards Analysis Begins in SilenceThere is a moment few in the trade like to mention: opening a billiards match...
Zhao Xintong Wins the World Title: The Axis of Snooker Power Shifts Toward ChinaCrucible Theatre, Sheffield, the night of 5 May 2026. Frame 30 of the World...
Vietnamese Billiards and the Data Gap Behind Perfect ShotsAt a billiards tournament in Binh Duong in late 2026, a young coach asked me...
The Chinese Match-Fixing Case and the Data Vacuum Inside World SnookerOn 3 January 2026, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association...
European Disability Snooker Championship 2026: 45 Entries, Eight Ranking Events and the Prize-Money Gap in SofiaIn the WPBSA release covering the European Disability Snooker Championship...
European Disability Snooker Championship 2026: 45 Entries, Eight Ranking Events and a Challenge Cup in SofiaSofia, Bulgaria, 20 September 2026. At the Ramada Sofia City Centre hotel, th...
European Disability Snooker Championship 2026: 45 Entries, Eight Ranking Brackets and a Structure Engineered for FairnessOn 20 September 2026, the snooker tables at the Ramada Sofia City Centre will...