Help with scoring

[itsnoteasy]

Sometimes it’s hard to calculate in the heat of the moment. I know a lad who couldn’t tell you what 1+1 is when the pressure is on. He’s not thick it’s just his brain goes to mush when under stress.

Just my opinion but playing under and being able to handle pressure is part of the game, you shouldn't receive help for that.

[vmax]

If you use an old wooden scoreboard you can see the pointers on the board and work it from there quite easily. Our club scoreboards have three pointers per player and go up to 19 in single figures on one pointer and the second pointer takes the score forwards in twenties, ie: 40, 60 , 80, 100, and the third pointer counts hundreds when playing billiards.

So if your opponent is on 53, pointer one is on 13 and pointer two is on 40, therefore if you're on 19 you can see your pointer on 19. Therefore if you give yourself 20 instead of 19 it's easy to see that you're 33 behind, plus one because you're actually on 19 which equals 34. You don't actually have to do the subtraction in your head as it's clearly visible, and if there's one red left recall your red times table and you can still win with a red/black and all the colours.

I once played a bloke who went to the scoreboard and put up every red as one when I potted it and then every colour as I potted it when I was making a break, it was very off putting as I had to wait for him every time. Also he put up the points for the colour by moving the pointer one digit at a time. To be honest I fail to understand how these people get on in life without something so very basic at their command, this bloke worked with me in a senior position

[akofb]

We have a player like this in my team. He just cannot do the numbers side and doesn't know to work out the points left versus what he's behind in the match

When he's reffing is just as bad. Say the score is 33-10 and the guy on 33 scores an 18 break. We tell him to add 20 and remove 2 and it blows his mind. He's not thick by any stretch but he just cannot do the numbers part.

[itsnoteasy]

It amazes me the actual fear numbers strike into some people.

[Nifty50]

Yep many people have a fear of numbers. Probably goes back to school days when they got whacked over the head if they got their sums wrong. It’s a psychological thing. I know a few people who mark the scores up one at a time. You have to feel sorry for them however they don’t seem to mind. Just get on with life. Loads of folk with “disabilities” have happy lives.

[vmax]

Yep many people have a fear of numbers. Probably goes back to school days when they got whacked over the head if they got their sums wrong. It’s a psychological thing. I know a few people who mark the scores up one at a time. You have to feel sorry for them however they don’t seem to mind. Just get on with life. Loads of folk with “disabilities” have happy lives.

Whacked over the head by a teacher if they got their sums wrong! showing your age there nifty, that ended decades ago. No one is allowed to fail now even if they know nothing they get some kind of pass, that's the problem as they're not even aware of it.

[Texas Snooker]

I actually kinda cheated and used a phone app. It is so automatic that it changes from reds to colors during the break until color ascension, to which it goes in color order; accounts for fouls between 4 and 7, and always displays the maximum amount of points left on the table. It works by pressing the big Red ball on the first pot of the break, then showing six colors for the next shot, alternating back until all fifteen reds are pocketed. Fouls, free balls, white runouts (scratches) are also accounted for as well.

Yes, blasphemous as all get-out, but is actually like a nice training tool for new snooker players to accurately and quickly keep up. Sorta like using gutter bumpers in 10-pin bowling so all shots stay in the lane.

[DeanH]

I actually kinda cheated and used a phone app. It is so automatic that it changes from reds to colors during the break until color ascension, to which it goes in color order; accounts for fouls between 4 and 7, and always displays the maximum amount of points left on the table. It works by pressing the big Red ball on the first pot of the break, then showing six colors for the next shot, alternating back until all fifteen reds are pocketed. Fouls, free balls, white runouts (scratches) are also accounted for as well.

Yes, blasphemous as all get-out, but is actually like a nice training tool for new snooker players to accurately and quickly keep up. Sorta like using gutter bumpers in 10-pin bowling so all shots stay in the lane.

there are a few on the market - which do you use?

[Texas Snooker]

there are a few on the market - which do you use?

Sorry, been awhile. I use an app called "Snooker Pro" but there are about three or four similar apps. I haven't used it in awhile though as I've been a bit more adept at math (or maths as you say).

[vmax]

Sorry, been awhile. I use an app called "Snooker Pro" but there are about three or four similar apps. I haven't used it in awhile though as I've been a bit more adept at math (or maths as you say).

Arithmetic, 'the branch of mathematics concerned with calculation of numbers' according to my Collins dictionary.