Where can I find published data on squirt values for various cues?
Platinum Billiards’s results is the only collection of extensive data I have seen. Meucci has also done some testing measuring the combined effects of squirt, swerve, and throw, so no reliable squirt data is available. Ron Shepard’s squirt paper reports a squirt angle range of about .5 to 2.3 degrees for low- to high-squirt cues, corresponding to a pivot point range of about 50″ to 10″. Platinum’s data ranges over 1.3 to 2.3 degrees of squirt angle and 7.6″ to 14.1″ for pivot points. I agree Platinum’s low-squirt values seem a little high, and the pivot point numbers seem way off; but, again, if their experiments were done as reported, the data is at least useful for a relative comparison. I have some data available here. My numbers seems to fall in between the ranges reported by Shepard and Platinum.
