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Late at night, I was in front of the TV.
The match was in its closing stages. I had forgotten to breathe.
The moment the goal went in, I cried out.
The next day, I went back over the analysis.
“The xG on that shot was 0.08.”
Learning that number, I got goosebumps all over again.
The number didn’t ruin the thrill.
If anything, it told me how special that moment had been.
From watching to understanding
In sport, between “watching” and “understanding,” there are numbers.
What goals alone could not show you comes into view once you know xG.
What pass completion alone could not measure comes into view with progressive passes.
Numbers don’t get in the way of the thrill.
Numbers, it turned out, give the thrill its reasons.
Those who know are watching a different match.
How hard the thing that player did really was.
How much that one shot was worth.
The more your eye grows, the deeper sport becomes.
Pool, too, needs words for watching
That value holds just as true in pool.
A player steps up to the table.
Gets down, steadies their breath, and delivers the cue.
In that one shot is the thinking that reads the layout.
The angle, the position play, two balls ahead — countless judgments are stacked inside it.
After you have watched with bated breath, the ball is swallowed by the pocket.
The excitement inside that silence is real.
👉 Watch, think, and want to watch again. — Pool as a spectator’s art of thought.
Just as football has xG, numbers change how a game looks.
We want pool, too, to have more “words for watching.”
Numbers are not only for judging players.
A winning percentage creeps up, little by little.
Matches pile up, one after another.
You beat the opponent you couldn’t beat last year.
Knowing that kind of accumulation changes how one shot looks.
Numbers exist so that we can know a player’s story.
👉 To witness a flash of inspiration. — In that moment, you hold your breath.
That is why we decided to publish stats
The Yokohama Open publishes stats for every player.
Winning percentage, number of matches, data game by game — as the numbers accumulate, the strengths and character that belong to that player alone come into view.
The numbers are not a league table.
They are a record that reflects the time players have put in.
Like that late-night moment of goosebumps, we believe pool has moments too, when numbers deepen the thrill.
Toward pool as a sport we watch more deeply, and talk about more.
We hope this can be one step in growing that culture.
👉 Yokohama Open player stats
👉 See the Yokohama Billiard Hall Guide
👉 Billiards resources from Japan and around the world, organized by purpose: Billiards in Depth (latest updated hourly)
