Well, there are a couple of problems.

1. There is no need for a Y particular. Simply redundant.
2. I think that the dash should be a start and end marker. That way, multiple particulars can be included. And it clears up the key pairings of start and end locations
3. I thought about “showing the path of the cue ball, other than kicks and banks”… That would be the path for position on the next shot. Well, I don’t see a lot of value in that for this notation. Comments?

The Plan

Each ‘location’ is identified by LetterNumber pair. There are 5 basic parts to a shot. In order:

Starting cueball location
Starting objectball location
A letter to describe particulars of the shot
Ending cueball location
Ending objectball location

The ‘particulars of a shot’ is given by one or more of the following:

• - for delimiting particulars
  • Used for complex shots, like combinations, caroms or billiards.
  • Any digit(s) following the dash will be the ball number that was ultimately the end of the complex shot
  • Optionally place just one dash to visiually separate the starting and ending locaitons. Personally, I prefer this.
• P for ‘push’
• M for ‘missed the pocket’
• F for ‘fouled’
• K for a kick, followed by the location of the contact point of the kick. Optional.
• B for bank, followed by the location of the contact point of the bank. Optional.

Here are the images I mentioned:

EXAMPLE 1

Taken from the match between Immonen v Klatt (Accustats 359b-13d) Game 6 @17:30. This is the 6th game in a 6 game streak.

EXAMPLE 2

Taken from the match between Immonen v Klatt (Accustats 359b-13d) Game 5 @15:40.

EXAMPLE 3

Taken from the match between Daulton v Reyes (Accustats 299-B) Game 4 @16:20, including a push and some safeties.

Daulton	Reyes	Comments
Break
	E5B1-P6-B0A1	Reyes hit the 6 first, in a push
A1R2-BS1-K0P7		Daulton accepted the push, hooking with the 3
	P7K0-KK0-D5L5	Reyes overhit leaving a clean look at the 1
L5D5-BA4-E6C1		9 ball was hit by the 1 ball
	C1E6-BH8-L6B1	Can hit 1, but not into corner because of 9
B1L6-BL8-L6H5		Both 8 and 9 were hit
	H5L6-S8N5	1 passed the 8 into pocket-left
	N5C6-A8N5
	N5M4-I0D3
	D3A6-A8G5	4 dropped and used the 7 to stop
	G5B0- BB0BA1BF8BP0 -R1B0	Nice safety! Parked the CB behind the 6
B0R1- KA1KF8KP0KS1F -S1I4		ended up kicking the 5
	J6I4I0I2	(These are shown without the dash to compare with above shots)
	I2B0A0F3
	F3G5I8L4
	L4P7S8G1
	G1D4A8xx	Reyes won

Well, I started developing this notation back in Dec 2010 and posted it to the old website. Now I’m posting it here. I don’t think that this is complete. Certainly the example listed below is not as detailed as it could be. But this is a start at defining a notation that can be used for all cue sports. I plan to open comments and I hope to hear your ideas for improving the notation.

The idea was to have some way to write down a description of a billiards shot. The images (the same, just one horizontal and one vertical) give the locations of the letters and numbers.

NOTE 1: The letters “O”, as in Orange and “Q” as in Quebec are absent to avoid confusion with the digit zero.

NOTE 2: There is no attempt to completely describe the table layout. It is assumed that a photograph or other image will show layouts at particular times.  That image should be shown at the correct ‘time’ in the list of shots.

The Plan

Each ‘location’ is identified by LetterNumber pair. There are 5 basic parts to a shot. In order:

Starting cueball location
Starting objectball location
A letter to describe particulars of the shot
Ending Objectball location
Ending cueball location

The ‘particulars of a shot’ is given by one or more of the following:

• P for ‘push’
• Y for ‘yes the object ball was pocketed’
• M for ‘missed the pocket’
• F for ‘fouled’
• - for complex shots, like combinations, caroms or billiards. The digit(s) following the dash will be the ball number that was ultimately the end of the complex shot
• K for a kick, followed by the location of the contact point of the kick. Optional.
• B for bank, followed by the location of the contact point of the bank. Optional.

Here are the images I mentioned:

OLD FORMAT

Here is an example. Taken from the match between Daulton v Reyes (Accustats 299-B) Game 3, including a push and some safeties

Daulton	Reyes	Comments
Break
	E5B1P-6B0A1	Reyes hit the 6 first, in a push
A1P2K0P7		Daulton accepted the push, putting the 3 between them
	P7K0D5L5	Reyes overhit leaving a clean look at the 1
L5D5E6C1		9 ball was hit by the 1 ball
	C1E6L6B1	Can hit 1, but not into corner because of 9
B1L6L6H5		Both 8 and 9 were hit
	H5L6YS8N5	1 passed the 8 into pocket-left
	N5C6YA8N5
	N5M4YI0D3
	D3A6YA8G5
	G5B0R1B0	Nice safety! Parked behind the 6
B0R1FS1I4		ended up kicking the 5
	J6I4YI0I2
	I2B0YA0F3
	F3G5YI8L4
	L4P7YS8G1
	G1D4YA8xx	Reyes won

Well, there are a couple of problems.

1. There is no need for a Y particular. Simply redundant.
2. I think that the dash should be a start and end marker. That way, multiple particulars can be included. And it clears up the key pairings of start and end locations

Hi All,

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Jenny