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In snooker, after a "miss" is declared the referee asks the player if the cue ball has been replaced in the correct spot. The player often ends up penalising himself by saying "left a bit" "right a bit" or whatever. Then the ref looks at both players "that ok?" and they both nod in agreement. In fact the seated player almost never bothers to check.
Imagine that in football.
"Was that foul outside the area or inside the area mate?"
Love snooker.
We can tell the trajectory and landing spot of a Rafa Nadal smash, map the expected flight of a Jimmy Anderson lbw appeal, decide whether a ball bounced over the line on the way down from the crossbar. All using technology.
But where did this erstwhile static object start moving from? We'll have to ask someone to look at a screen for us and wiggle it about a bit until we are broadly confident, then ask the players what they think.
It's a complete anachronism.
Must be a technological way of solving this problem. How about an overhead projector that can impose an image of the balls before the shot on the table? Ref just slides the white to where the projected white ball is.
Absolutely no excuse for
this still being a problem.
Sometimes the margins are so fine that a projected image wouldn't do. i.e.you can see the thin edge of a ball, move the white an 8th of a frazzle and now you can't. Both players know, the camera doesn't.
If technology can get us an eighth of a frazzle over the goalline, it should be able to get us to where the cue ball is.
Is it a problem? The ref gets some help from the players, who want the ball in the same place because that means their adjustments on the shot mean something. I’m not aware of any contentious situations that have come from this.
Any camera setup would inevitably suffer from some degree of parallax and then you’re back to that eighth of a frazzle which the players can see.
It's a problem in that it's needlessly inexact and left to human interpretation and judgment, when it's actually a point of fact as to where a ball was.
I get it's not a major issue. It just seems rather 20th century to me and snooker being left behind is a bad thing.
When a golfer marks his ball on the putting green should we be taking a photo so that it goes back in exactly the same spot?
We already do, don't we? The ball flight on a drive is tracked, so presumably this can be done.
That would be next on my list.
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What a wonderful clearance there by Ronnie to go 2-1 up v Lisowski. Lisowski is playing very well, too.
Good match in prospect.
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What a wonderful clearance there by Ronnie to go 2-1 up v Lisowski. Lisowski is playing very well, too.
Good match in prospect.
Lisowski, yet another brilliant left-hander.
How come you didn't turn pro with such an obvious advantage? You should be ashamed of yourself.
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Quote from: tikay on December 05, 2018, 01:56:41 PM
What a wonderful clearance there by Ronnie to go 2-1 up v Lisowski. Lisowski is playing very well, too.
Good match in prospect.
In prospect yes, but far too many careless mistakes to call it a high-quality match so far.
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"Stephen has gone through the gears like a rocket ship"
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Mark Allen great left-hander v Neil Robertson great left-hander.
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Just watching Martin O'Donnell. Great left hander.
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Just watching Mark Allen. Great left hander.
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This was quite interesting.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zJoCnQLFNHs
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Barry Hearn to have words with Ronnie O'Sullivan over his 'damaging' outbursts about a snooker breakaway
https://ind.pn/2EaJE3w
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I for one was shocked that Davis sided with Hearn
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I for one was shocked that Davis sided with Hearn
Am I being whooshed here?
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I don't agree with everything Hearn says but he's great at what he does
I'd rather have him inside my tent pissing out than outside pissing in.
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Not big on cooey wooey though is he?
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