Pat Fleming

Pat Fleming is an American professional pocket billiards player and the founder of Accu-Stats Video Productions, born in 1948. He was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame in the Meritorious Service category on June 12, 2008, as its fifty-third inductee. A boyhood interest in statistics led him at nine to keep detailed records of his runs and practice time, and in 1983 he invented the Total Performance Average, a statistical analysis system that is now the standard metric for professionals. He played straight pool in the 1970s and early 1980s, and Accu-Stats, based in Butler, New Jersey, has videotaped more than 1,000 tournament matches since the mid-1980s.