Coordination System

[GeorgeNg]

Dear all,

Is there any official or well established way to describe the position of a ball on a table (say like a coordination system) so that people can read a match through writing.

[bongo]

No, don't know of one. Do you mean the same as the 'diamond system' in pool?

[GeorgeNg]

I mean a system or notation to record each play of a game. For example, like chess e2-e4, e7-e5, etc. Asking for help on it because I would like to do some documentation of some snooker games using only words, not video.

[JoeNut]

suppose you just use the spots really, but why would anyone want to "read" a match?

[cm59]

a person who was into snooker who might have gone blind then a person could read the match to them afterwards to help them to follow it if they wished they could explain every last detail to them rather than them only knowing who scored what in each visit and final score etc

just an idea

[davis_greatest]

Coordinates?

This would make fascinating radio commentary.

"There's a flat back pack, so he'll need to play this with stun to cannon the red at 53.380448352626275 degrees north latitude, 1.468337325226274753679 degrees west longitude."

"That wasn't the bad shot, it was the one before it. He should have played the red at 53.380448352626264 degrees north latitude, 1.468337325226274753667 degrees west longitude..."

[RGCirencester]

lol. i like that. You forgot pace... He should have hit that at 26.5m/s but instead he hit it at 25.6m/s.
Oh and we need a system for spin, 10.952 degrees of topspin...

[davis_greatest]

Good idea. We should certainly develop it, because there must be hundreds of thousands of blind snooker fans in every city who would like to have matches read to them afterwards.

[cm59]

ooooooo sarcasm just an idea reading back a bit of a stupid one admittedly but you never know

[RGCirencester]

I had a brainwave, how about a sort pictorial brail? You etch sketches of the table with the exact pictures of the balls at each instance and then the blind person runs there finger over them to get a picture of where the balls went? We could make millions! Want to go halves on the development costs davis

[davis_greatest]

I would prefer us to invest our money in developing a system of echolocation. All that we need to do is simply install, let's say, 100 million microphones around the table, play some continuous loud notes during the match and record the sounds of echoes off the balls.

Then, just rig up 100 million speakers in corresponding positions in the blind person's living room and play the match through the hi-fi. We could even play it live so it is more exciting to listen to.