MillionBalls

MillionBalls is a web-based simulator that improves your real-life pool game. While there is no real substitute for practice time at the pool table, there are times when you just can’t get to one.

Remember COVID-19? Like most other things, the pool halls abruptly shut down when that little thing happened. This got me thinking about ways to continue to develop my skills and find ways to improve without access to a pool table.

I dusted off the parts of my brain where I had stored math concepts I hadn’t used in a couple of decades and got to work.

I started off with a pretty simple idea: set up a simple cut shot and try to predict whether the aim was true, and where the cue ball would go.