I’ve tried to find out or figure out what’s the ‘best’ or ‘fairest’ way to rack 8ball. After some thought, I’ve concluded that there are 10 ways to rack that are the “fairest” ways. That is, they are most likely to give a fair spatial distribution of solids and stripes. I made a video showing the 10 ways.
Personally, I use the same method that PC Apeman showed (ignoring color). See comment #11. This is one of my 10 ways. However, I can’t really give a logical explanation of why the other 9 ways aren’t as good as that one. Maybe someone else can.
I always started with the 1 ball. 8 in the middle. And assenting numerical order alternating solids and strips so that like colors are next to each other.
Well hell! It seems that I’ve been racking them ‘wrong’ for the last 35+ years! :smack:
I’ve always started with the 1 at the top, 8 in the middle and (starting with the 1 and going either cw or ccw, it doesn’t matter, they come out the same way) alternated solid, stripe, solid, stripe, etc. all the way around the outside.
And now that I think about it, I can’t seem to recall anyone ever complaining or trying to correct me.
That’s one of the 10 fairest ways I talked about in my comment (#21). It seems like a good way to me. Though I don’t worry about color - just positions of solids and stripes.
Sorry I didn’t watch your video earlier I had two TV shows downloading at the time. I like mine cause it’s east to remember from the rules and it’s pretty. I like pretty.
When I grew up, that rule was used only with the other “home” rule where if you scratched, one of your previously pocketed balls was returned to the head spot.
