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Ahead of the #WorldSnookerChampionship find out who under- or overperformed in Crucible history. Are Bill Werbeniuk and Patsy Fagan really the best 'Crucible players'? 🤔 @ProSnookerBlog @snookerorg #Snooker

@clusterofreds1 Maurice Parkin, 19 years on tour, highest ranking 91. Mind, the ranking system was different in those days so he had no ranking for most of his career.

What is a snooker player's longest career without reaching the Top 64? I'm not saying his is, of course, but it feels like Ross Muir has been around forever (I think it's his 8th season on the pro tour?) I think Zhang Anda took longer to reach the Top 64! What do you think? 🤔

@snookerorg Coincidence? youtube.com/watch?v=X-2Ex8…

James Silverwood has made the fastest colour clearance at 17.52 seconds. Can you beat that? If so let the Guinness guys know.

Great #WorldSnookerChampionship scoring from Luca to win the event. #147sf #Snooker #SnookerWorldChampionship2023

@WeAreWST @CazooUK Another milestone! #Snooker

Ronnie O'Sullivan reaches 1200 career centuries! He leads Hossein Vafaei 12-2 in the second round of snooker's pinnacle event, the @CazooUK World Championship. One frame from the quarter finals... #CazooWorldChampionship

@DylanTaylor793 @RobJF24 Right, wasn't aware of the draws. But its correctly in the head-to-head. So its more like 8 out of 12.

@snookerbrain1 @RobJF24 Some of those matches were draws, so Parrott only has 8 wins.

Ahead of this afternoon's showdown, just as a bit of fun, I thought I'd spin this question: whom do you consider to be Ronnie's ultimate nemesis? Higgins? Carter? Murphy? Hoss? Selby? Ebdon? Slessor? (No smart alecs saying 'himself', please 😑)

@DylanTaylor793 @RobJF24 cuetracker.net/players/ronnie…

@snookerbrain1 @RobJF24 Only 8/15 for Parrott.

@musicalsuz Right, you may have a look at my more telling update-tweet on that topic, how many more he would have prob. got.

@snookerbrain1 But the line would have been higher if he'd been bothered. There's no denying he wasn't bothered in early career, he used to play exhibition shots or crazy shots when he got to 80.

What about the myth that Mark Williams was not bothered about centuries in his early career? Compared to Ronnie & John he was making them at a similar rate but with some dips. #Snooker #CazooWorldChampionship #147sf

Mark Williams @markwil147 wasn't really bothered about making a century in the past. But how many more he could have made based on the number of 50/60 breaks each year? #CazooWorldChampionship #Snooker

@Rich_W17 @TSnooker102 @badatsnooker09 @MichaelAstley4 Something like: "Being on a break of 60 Mark turned a similar amount of them into centuries in his early career." But, as I said, more work is needed to figure that out and guess if he'd have 60 or 200 tons more.

@snookerbrain1 @TSnooker102 @badatsnooker09 @MichaelAstley4 Fair play, not easy to post that tweet. What were you trying to say about the chart?

@Rich_W17 @TSnooker102 @badatsnooker09 @MichaelAstley4 Think we stop here guys. Blame on me, I was describing the chart badly in the tweet. Sorry. If you don't like statistics and some guesswork just mute the account. Thanks!

@Rich_W17 @badatsnooker09 @TSnooker102 @MichaelAstley4 If your controversy is only about that, I apologize.

@snookerbrain1 @badatsnooker09 @TSnooker102 @MichaelAstley4 Apology forthcoming I assume?

@Rich_W17 @TSnooker102 @badatsnooker09 @MichaelAstley4 Thanks to you! As there is interest into the topic about Willo, I will dig a little deeper next days to conclude how many more tons Mark prob. would have had. Cheers.

@Rich_W17 @badatsnooker09 @TSnooker102 @MichaelAstley4 Okay, you're right. Blame on me. Maybe I was summing up the chart a little to simple.

@snookerbrain1 @badatsnooker09 @TSnooker102 @MichaelAstley4 Who’s this then?

@Rich_W17 @badatsnooker09 @TSnooker102 @MichaelAstley4 Where? I never wrote "he was making them (tons) at a similar rate".

@snookerbrain1 @badatsnooker09 @TSnooker102 @MichaelAstley4 I just showed it 🤣 time to mute you now, this is like being in the twilight zone

@Rich_W17 @badatsnooker09 @TSnooker102 @MichaelAstley4 Okay, fair enough, than show me that tweet. Otherwise, you proved yourself wrong again.

@snookerbrain1 @badatsnooker09 @TSnooker102 @MichaelAstley4 Have a day off, I was writing to the character limit. Your tweet said “he was making them at a similar rate” Jesus wept.

@badatsnooker09 @TSnooker102 @Rich_W17 @MichaelAstley4 Correct, but that's how it works. Like it or not.

@snookerbrain1 @TSnooker102 @Rich_W17 @MichaelAstley4 All it means to me is you can dress up guesswork in fancy words and graphs 😂

@badatsnooker09 @TSnooker102 @Rich_W17 @MichaelAstley4 Obviously, it seems to matter, otherwise 4 people wouldn't twitter an hour about it. 😅

@TSnooker102 @snookerbrain1 @Rich_W17 @MichaelAstley4 No it doesn't 😂😂

@Rich_W17 @badatsnooker09 @TSnooker102 @MichaelAstley4 So, but there's no "century-rate" mentioned, as you write.

@snookerbrain1 @badatsnooker09 @TSnooker102 @MichaelAstley4 I was referring to this x.com/snookerbrain1/…

@Rich_W17 @badatsnooker09 @TSnooker102 @MichaelAstley4 Again, miss-read. I never wrote anything about a "century-rate" here.

@badatsnooker09 @snookerbrain1 @TSnooker102 @MichaelAstley4 And the starting point is already questionable seeing as he said the century rate was similar in the 90s even though it absolutely wasn’t. So then it’s “oh well we can only look at breaks over 60” 🫠🫠🫠

@Rich_W17 @TSnooker102 @badatsnooker09 @MichaelAstley4 Again, miss-read! The "could have had" was not about the chart I posted. This can only be answered "digging a bit deeper" as I wrote.

@snookerbrain1 @TSnooker102 @badatsnooker09 @MichaelAstley4 Lol, no, that’s not contradicting myself I’ve been very clear and consistent: you’re wrong about your numbers, there’s a big difference between the 3 players in the 90s, you’re cherry picking a redundant data point, and making up hypothetical numbers for what he “could have” had